In a pioneering departure from conventional medicine this startling new book, 'Unravelling the Mystery of Disease. The medical reform needed to cure the incurable . a Kuhnian shift', urges that we move away from diagnosis as the way to tackle disease due to its very poor results. In its stead it suggests we embrace compelling findings from archaeology: that there are only four root causes of disease - and they all weaken immunity.This two-pronged rethink on disease is the brainchild of Deborah Manners BSc(Hons)DipEd, founder of the Food Intolerance Institute of Australia. Manners sees the global burden of disease - hundreds of millions afflicted with lifelong illness - as a consequence of misapplied science that demands medical reform.'Because', she says, 'medicine's quirky method for tackling sickness - diagnosis - is not useful for patients, leading them deeper into disease. The typical prognosis for chronic degenerative disease is continuous treatment, worsening illness and premature death.

Healing is out of the question.''But if instead we were all to adopt a diet low in food toxins like caseins (from milk), glutens (from wheat) and others, disease incidence (new cases) would drop dramatically.'The book cites evidence that cancers, Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, infertility and other conditions can be arrested, improved, prevented and in some cases reversed by avoiding food toxins.The new approach is captured in Manners-Xenos Theory which she develops as the book progresses. Certain poisons in common food staples have brought humanity to a crisis point. Because while archaeology reveals that disease was unknown to our Paleolithic forbears - today three in four of us die with two, three or more chronic conditions which continue to outwit medicine.The author, with a genetic blood disorder, discovered the link between food intolerance and disease through her own experience and research. Predicated on findings from hundreds of studies across five decades - the book deftly demystifies disease - arriving at what seems like an obvious-in-hindsight conclusion: that we have been looking at sickness the wrong way for centuries.