Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Jim was 56 when one day he had 'a real bad pain' in the lower
right side of his abdomen. He naturally assumed that it was
appendicitis and consulted his doctor.

   During surgery at the Humana Hospital, the surgeon removed a
grapefruit sized tumor, along with 18" of Jim's small intestine, gall
bladder and spleen. The diagnosis was lymphoma. His doctor
urged him to take chemotherapy, but he didn't want to do that
and looked for alternatives. He found the Gerson book, A Cancer
Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, and decided that this was what he
wanted to do.

   A former employee of his noticed one day that Jim had a juicer
and asked him what he was doing. When he found out that Jim
was doing the Gerson Therapy, the former employee said that he,
too, was doing that. That was the beginning of the "Gerson
Support Group" in EI Lago, Texas, that Jim was leading. It turned
out that several other people who also joined the group and were
doing the Gerson Therapy. showed Jim that he was making some
mistakes. "They straightened me out," Jim reported.

   At the end of about three years, in 1996 or so, Jim states that
he felt so good, he started to ease off the strict Gerson Therapy.
He continued to eat vegetarian but was no longer juicing. He said
that presently, just before his 67th birthday, he feels "wonderful"
and is still working full time at the NASA space center as a rocket
scientist.

   Jim also told about another patient who was on the Gerson
Therapy and in the Support Group: Jim Elk. This man had
suffered from Lymphoma for two years, and, under a doctor's
care, had worsened. His lymph nodes had grown to the size of
softballs and he became paralyzed from the pressure on his spinal
cord. His arthritis was also getting worse. At this point his doctor
told Jim Elk that he was going to die. However, two friends talked
to him about the Gerson program. He didn't believe in it but tried
it anyway. At first he seemed to get worse, but he persisted. Then
he began to improve and, 27 months later, stood up in front of the
Gerson Group and danced a jig! He also swung his left arm
around. That arm had been so badly affected by arthritis that Jim
could not move it. He was in such good shape that he became
'everyone's hero' in the group. Jim had Lymphoma in 1989 and
started the Gerson Therapy at the Mexican Gerson hospital in
1992.

   Then Jim Elk's story took a tragic turn: in 1999, in good health
and very active, he was mowing a large lawn with an automatic
lawn mower - which ran over him! He landed in the hospital
where he died shortly afterwards from his injuries.

   Jim Forehand made one more important statement: "Everyone
who stayed on the Gerson program stayed alive. Those who
dropped off, died in a year or two."