Christian Right groups always attract their fair share of health cranks. The North Queensland Pain Help Centre, based in Mareeba, recently had this published in the Fatherhood Foundation newsletter (3 Jul. 2006):

… One issue you raised is the addiction to coffee, mine is still high! However, there is an upside to coffee, pardon the pun, we are putting it in the wrong end!!!!!!!!!!

A Dr Gerson at the turn of the century used coffee enemas to treat pain and cancer very effectively. Its ability to detox the body is amazing - http://www.gerson.org/

Oh boy, so coffee enemas are an effective treatment for cancer. You learn something every day. But you’ll learn more if you go here - http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/gastro.html - or here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerson_therapy.

As for the North Queensland Pain Help Centre, I suggest that it can take its own advice, pretend it’s a cup of coffee and … oops, remember you’re a lady, Angie.

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