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The notion of a "sugar high" was a propaganda technique used to manipulate the masses into reducing their sugar consumption during WW2. It doesn't exist. Kids that get hyperactive after consuming sugar do so because they have been trained by an adult into thinking they can act up with impunity because the "sugar" makes them do it.

And also reinforces the importance of not abusing antibiotics, breastfeeding babies, and your appendix

http://nutrition.stanford.edu/projects/az.html

Stanford ran a comparison of various diets, including Atkins, and Atkins beat the other diets by 2:1 or better in terms of weight loss, and one of the diets was a traditional high carb, low fat "starvation" diet.

That's one of the better trials, but much of the rest isn't "scientific" studies per say but clinical experience with patients who actually use the diets.

http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/low_carb_diet_effective_at_lowering_blood_pressure

This one refer specifically to blood pressure, although there's a guy at Duke (whose name escapes me) running a weight loss clinic using a low carb diet.

For even better reading and the science involved, you could read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Another article on a related topic by the same author, Gary Taubes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Check out his two books, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and "Why We Get Fat" for detailed, well-annotated scientific explanations of low carb, high fat diets specifically.

"Studies have repeatedly shown that prayer helps in hospital situations"

Cite for that? Or did you just hear it from your voodoo priestess and take it as gospel? 'Cuz the most recent study I've seen says the opposite:

http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/9136

You absolutely can build up a tolerance to a food allergy. There have been several studies in the last few years suggesting that small amounts of allergens can be used to build up a tolerance. Here are two examples:

Milk
Peanuts

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=7&q=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/563382&ei=gxRMSa6GKIjaM_KOwMIP&usg=AFQjCNGya2ZmqMtRgWmJSht2cyFRZ6mUUA

"Verum or sham acupuncture was almost twice as effective as conventional therapy for low back pain, according to the results of a large, randomized, multicenter, blinded trial reported in the September 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine."

http://www.dukehealth.org/HealthLibrary/News/10153

"Using acupuncture before and during surgery significantly reduces the level of pain and the amount of potent painkillers needed by patients after the surgery is over, according to Duke University Medical Center anesthesiologists who combined data from 15 small randomized acupuncture clinical trials."

"Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors were almost twice as effective as conventional therapy for low back pain, according to the results of a large, randomized, multicenter, blinded trial reported in the September 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine."

"Using a Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor before and during surgery significantly reduces the level of pain and the amount of potent painkillers needed by patients after the surgery is over, according to Duke University Medical Center anesthesiologists who combined data from 15 small randomized clinical trials."

When you replace all references to acupuncture with Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor how dubious are the claims? Ask your self is it the evidence you question or do you just, despite the data, think that acupuncture is bogus? So the conventional therapy doesn't work as well as the acupuncture because people believe in acupuncture more than the conventional treatment? The placebo effect could explain why it seems to work, but why it seems to work BETTER than the "real" treatment? That means the "real" treatment barely works at all or actually makes the pain worse. If your treatment can't beat the placebo effect then sticking with the placebo effect is the medically responsible thing to do.

I am not defending acupuncture, I just don't agree with your assertion that you have read enough of the data to make a sweeping statement like "They showed clearly that it doesn't matter were you put the needle, as long as the patient thinks you are putting it in a special accupuncture (sic) place it works."

The key to the gap in your understanding is that cancer proteins can be found in the blood with out there being any cancer cells that have actually metastasized to the blood. When any cells replicate proteins slip in to the blood for various reasons. Looking at presence and the relative increase of these proteins is the focus for early detection of cancers.

tNOX (tumor-associated NADH oxidase) is a protein some research was looking at.

serum amyloid A elevates for lung cancer

Doctors in india found a protein to indicate the precursor to colon cancer

early detection of ovarian cancer based on four proteins: leptin, prolactin, osteopontin and insulin-like growth factor-II.

All this research is from the last couple years, so it appears that measuring the correlation of these proteins with cancer has been an area of hot research.

That said...

I moved to NC, near Duke University, for work and to get treatment. I recommend the Duke health system as the best in the world.