title: Defying My Prognosis
author: Frances M. Foster
description: Frances Foster earned her Master of Science in psychology from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and her certification in nutrition from the federally accredited American Health Science University in Aurora, Colorado. After teaching psychology at UB, she applied her skills to corporate training and development. For the past twenty years she has owned Hampton Natural Foods and, more recently, Dover Natural Foods and Caf, both in New Hampshire. When diagnosed with malignant breast cancer, her frustration with allopathic medicine inspired her to write her first book. Frances lives in a small New Hampshire town with her two feline friends, Kitty Carlisle and Smokey Joe.
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  For Gwendolyn, Eleanor, Nicholas… and Plum
  
  The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new
  cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms
  appear.
  —Antonio Gramsci
  pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable
  disease…
  —e. e. cummings
  
  INTRODUCTION
  The Closing of the Frontier
  The peak of human accomplishment and daring, the greatest single triumph of
  modern science and government and industry, the most extraordinary endeavor of
  the American age in modern history, occur