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If society as a whole followed a whole foods Mediterranean diet with regular exercise and cessation of smoking, healthcare costs could be lowered by at least 50% with no cost to the government or to consumers.  Joe Emerson, Portland

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I am a nutritionist who has followed the advice of naturopathic doctors for years and greatly prefer them to allopathic doctors, who also have an important role to play in healthcare. My concern with this bill is that NATUROPATHIC DOCTORS WILL NO LONGER BE NATUROPATHIC DOCTORS! The distinction between natural approaches and drug approaches to healing will be totally blurred and natural medicine will take a step backwards. How can this possibly be good for professionals who profess to be practitioners of NATURAL medicine? How can it be good for patients who are seeking NATURAL approaches to healing?

Joe Emerson

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