Diabetes Talking

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – By Dr. Andrew Weils According to a well-publicized survey in last November’s Journal of the American Medical Association, the total number of visits to alternative-medicine practitioners has leaped by some 50 percent since 1990 and now exceeds visits to all primary-care physicians in the United States. That same survey, however–reported by David Eisenberg, MD, of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center–also reveals a disturbing trend: While more and more people are using alternative methods of self-care or seeking out alternative practitioners, few–less than 40 percent