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Yoga 'cures cancer,' claims senior Indian government official
A "cure for cancer" using yoga could be scientifically proven within a year, a senior Indian government official has claimed.
The head of Indias ministry for alternative medicine said researchers at a Bangalore institute were in the process of submitting research showing that yoga techniques could be used to prevent or arrest the disease.
The institute has found a technique of yoga for the prevention and cure of cancer. They have proved it. The process uses only practising of special asanas [poses], said Shripad Yasso Naik.
Speaking at a conference in Goa on Saturday, Mr Naik said the technique could be prescribed to patients within a year, once research documents submitted to the ministry had been verified, and could even replace chemotherapy.
...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/12205310/Yoga-cures-cancer-claims-senior-Indian-government-official.html
I won't deny there are health benefits from doing yoga, but curing cancer?
Also, "Indias ministry for alternative medicine".
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Yoga 'cures cancer,' claims senior Indian government official (Original Post)
progressoid
Mar 2016
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ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)1. I think yoga is kick ass, but I really doubt it cures cancer. nt
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)2. .
DetlefK
(16,455 posts)3. "once research documents had been verified"
LeftishBrit
(41,303 posts)4. At least yoga, unlike some proposed 'cures', probably is genuinely good for health, but it does NOT
cure cancer!
What is it about politicians who fancy themselves as medical scientists: this bloke, the HIV-denialists of South Africa, your Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and our very own David Tredinnick MP (who once claimed expenses for researching links between astrology and health!)
progressoid
(50,747 posts)5. RFK Jr.'s slide into loony land is kind of sad.
Even sadder is that Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) married him a couple years ago.
Love is blind I guess.