"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
~ Thomas Edison
~ Thomas Edison
The Root Cause of Dis-Ease
The map below shows a shocking and strong connection between obesity, depression, lack of exercise, diabetes and heart disease. I know the map for cancer is very similar; it's just not pictured here. Maybe there is just an underlying problem at the root of all disease.
Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke and Diabetes are the 4 leading causes of death in the U.S. These are ALL lifestyle diseases, NOT genetic diseases.
Perhaps the root cause of most disease is simply our disconnect from Nature and all the essential elements (including the Earth's PEMFs); AND getting too much stress and toxicity from bad foods, drugs, bad water quality and lack of hydration, poor air quality and lack of exercise, not enough sunlight, not enough sleep, too much electrosmog and overall too much emotional and psychological stress.
We are out of sync with Nature and because of that our bodies are stressed. It is this disconnect we need to explore, understand and expose in order to understand why we need to shift back and re-connect to Nature and Her elements.
Most people lose weight for reasons of vanity, but a healthy weight is one of THE keys to more energy and longevity (and staying away from doctors drugs and hospitals).
The Doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition, Thomas Edison.
Food is everywhere.
Every special occasion seems to involve food and feasting
Half of all Americans take a prescription drug.
1/3 US people will develop diabetes in their lifetime
sugar, caffeine and energy drinks masks our chronic fatigue.
In spite of spending more than $110 million every day (over $40 Billion a year) on diet pills, fad diets and programs; Americans are the obese people in history and with the export of many fast food chains obsetity is on the rise worldwide.
Obesity is a better predicter than even cigarette smoking for chronic ailments and quality of life.
A whopping 34% of americans are Obese, which means that more than 1/3 of a persons body must be made of fat. The number one health problem in the U.S. is Obesity and if the current trend continues, by the year 2048 all adults in the United states will be overweight or obese (Fuhrman pg 17). The national institutes of Health estimate that obesity is associated with a two fold increase in mortality, costing society more than $100 billion per year (Fuhrman 17). This is especially discouraging for dieters because after spending so much money attempting to lose weight, 95% of them gain all the weight back and then even add more pounds in 3 years (fuhrman 17).Dr Oz0 In a survey of 9500 Americans, 36 percent were overweight, and 23 percent obese, yet only 19% were daily smokers and 6% heavy drinkers. US surgeon general estimates 300,000 deaths a year linked to obesity. Eating right and exercising lowered the incident of chronic diseases by 60%.
Obesity is not just a cosmetic issue, extra weight leads to an earlier death as many studies confirm (pg 18). Overweight individuals are more likely to die from all causes, including heart disease and cancer. 2/3 of people with weight problems, also have hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or another obesity-related condition (pg 18). Since dieting rarely works and certainly doesnt last, more and more people are turning to weight loss drugs and surgery. And according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wound problems and complications from blood clots are common after-effects of gastric bypass and gastroplasty surgery.
Health Complications of Obesity
Dieting
Calorie counting, rules, diets, diet drugs, high protein programs, canned shakes and other fads work for a while, but you can't stay on them forever and many times you end up gaining more weight when you get off (due to lower metabolism and increased eating. Gimmicky diets don't work, because no matter how much weight you lose when you are on a diet, you put it right back when you get off. Measuring portions and trying to eat fewer calories, typically called dieting (diet begins with DIE), temporarily slows down your metabolism so often more weight comes back than you lose. This leads to people throwing their hands in the air and saying I have tried everything, dieting doesn't work it must be genetic. We'll see in chapter 5 with the new science of epigenetics that this is NOT TRUE!
The KEY - Eat Foods with a high Nutrient Density and you can eat as much as you want. Refined carbohydrates (white bread and any baked good in the bakery, sugar and most candy and sweets, soft drinks and all bottled, canned sweet beverages (avoid artificial sweetners too), and too much toxic animal products, meats, eggs, cheese. Grass fed meat and fresh raw dairy in moderation. As long as you are eating refined fats, too much fat of any kind, and refined sugars and carbohydrates, you will never long weight or remain healthy. There is just too much research to the contrary.
Genes are not the problem, food choices, stress, lack of sleep and exercise ARE.
Studies done with identical twins found that even those with a strong family history of obesity effectively lose weight with increased physical activity and dietary modifications (pg 20 Fuhrman).
Harvard Study 27 years by Dr I-Min Lee of 19,297 men, found a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. She found the thinnest 1/5 of men experienced the lowest mortality, and mortality or death rates increased progressively with heavier and heavier weight. And many weight tables showing so called ideal weight are probably not accurate. Unless you are muscular, a lower body weight compared to your height is probably more ideal than you realize.
WHO
75% of americans are overweight. Even The world health organization (WHO) estimates that the spread of processed foods and American fast food worldwide has made obesity and the diseases of a low-nutrient, high calorie eating bigger contributors to premature death worldwide than starvation. WHO has stated:
"Households should select predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, pulses or legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods.
Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization. Human vitamin and mineral requirements. Report 2002.
Lifelines in palm reading, but even more important is your waistline.... The longer your waistline, the shorter your lifeline.
BMI is a conventional way to measure if you are overweight or obese. Simply divide your weight in kilograms (divide weight in pounds by 2.2) by your height in meters squared (divide your height in feet by 3.28). For example, I am 165 pounds and 6 feet tall. So my wieght in kilograms is (165/2.2 = 75 kilograms). My height in meters is 6/3.28 = 1.83 meters. So my BMI = (weight in Kilograms)/(height in meters)^2 = (75/1.83^2 = 22.4).
Ideally your BMI should be below 23 UNLESS you are muscular.
Perhaps even more accurate is waist circumference and abdominal fat measurements which better take into account if you have lean muscle mass.
Evidence suggests that abdominal fat measurements are a better predictor of risk than overall weight, BMI or size. Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places such as hips and thigns (stress increases belly fat - stress kills).
When you pinch fat, than inside fat inside abdominal wall and around all the organs.
Just as much fat inside.
Risks diabetes, heart disease, cancer
Better Health late in Life.
If you think you are underweight you probably are NOT. Never overeat to gain weight. Exercise with weights and eat as your hunger dictates but NO MORE. You can gain healthy muscle this way. Otherwise overeating to gain weight without weight training just increaes fat levels.
---
No wonder we have problems with heart diseaese and cancer.
Heart disease (598,689) and cancer (574,743) account for half of all deaths in the U.S based on statistics provided by the CDC and these are preventable diseases! Also preventable by diet are strokes (the 4th leading killer at 129,476) and diabetes (69,071). Together these four PREVENTABLE causes of death account for 60% of ALL fatalities.President Nixon - Cancer Act of 1971 - War of Cancer Started
1.25 million americans suffer a heart attack every year.
Key to a healthy heart
-Be thin - (less than one inch abdominal fat in women, less than 3/4 inch in men)
- Low LDL below 80 and low cholesterol levels below 150.
- Blood pressure must be in normal range.Easy to lower blood pressure --> weight loss, sodium restriction, restrict caffeine and alcohol, increase fiber, increase consumption of fruits and veggies, increase physical activity/exercise.
- Eat plant based high nutrient density diet
Heart Disease
The illness has gained traction in the last century - in 1900, cardiovascular disease was not even in the top 10 causes of death. Now its number one with one death every 26 seconds.
More than half of all heart disease cases, the first symptom is instant death.
What is at the core of this disease? Plaque. Plaque is a waxy, fatty deposit that can build up in various places in the body, including inside the arteries.
Excessive buildup of larger plaques within the arteries limits the flow of oxygen rich blood the heart receives. This process can cause angina or severe discomfort and pain in the chest area.
To prevent the formation of plaques, stop or severely limit animal products. Animal products contain all the building blocks for heart disease: artery clogging saturated fat, plaque promoting cholesterol, cholesterol raising and inflammation causing animal protein, and free radical promoting oxidants.
All these components encourage the buildup of plaque and damage the lining of sixty thousand plus miles of ateries, veins, and capillaries through which your blood flows.
Plant based products (not including processed foods) are more cleansing and protective and discourage plaque buildup with all the vitamins, minerals phytochemicals and bioflavonoids they contain.
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr Dean Ornish, Dr. John McDougall, Dr Joel Fuhrman and other leading doctors have had much success reversing heart disease with a whole food, plant based diet.
Also mention the China Study.
Framington Heart Study - No one in Framington Heart Study with Cholesterol under 150 had a heart atttack. But 35% with Cholesterol between 151 and 200 DID... So make sure you are not just normal, but UNDER 150. Also try to get LDL under 80.
How? With a whole food, plant based diet.
Stroke
Nearly 700,000 people suffer strokes anually and around 130,000 die.
A stroke is similar to a heart attack, but happens in the brain. It can occur one of two ways. The first type is called an ischemic stroke which is the result of a blood clot or narrowing of the arteries to the brain.
The second type is a hemorrhagic stroke, which occurs when one of the arteries leading to the brain ruptures. In both cases, there isnt enough oxygen rich blood feeding and nourishing the brain. Nerve cells in the brain then die affecting the part of the body those cells control.
Keeping your blood pressure in check can narrow the risk, but eating meat, dairy, eggs, and added oils raises blood pressure in several ways.
1- Narrow and clogged vessels create an increase in pressure throughout the body.
2- The saturated fat in meat and dairy makes blood thicker, which also requires an increase in pressure to move
3- Animal products are usually high in sodium, causing the body and blood to retain fluid, which again increases blood pressure
Americans consume way too salt - see section on salt.
According to the Framington Heart Study, for every 3 addtional servings of fruits and veggies you eat a day, the risk of stroke is reduced by 22% !
Cancer - The C word. It fans fear in the hearts of Americans. And rightfully so, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US. 1 in 3 Americans will get cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 4 will dies from it.
Cancer starts at the cellular level, where normal cells become abnormal due to various environmental, nutritional, or chemical stresses. Then they start to grow and divide wildly refusing to die, doubling every 100 days - and yet it can take 10 to 15 years before such cancers reach the size of a match tip!
Eventually the renegrade cells clump together to form a tumor, killing off healthy tissue as it competes for space, and blood vessels to acquire nutrients.
So like heart disease, cancer starts a long time before it manifest on a larger level.
But you can lower your cancer risk by NOT feeding it the things it craves to flourish - dairy, meat, eggs, oils, processed sugar, tobacco and alcohol.
Even if you have cancer you can reduce its growth ly lessoning your reliance on animal products (meat, dairy and eggs). Meat and dairy products contain cancer promoting saturated fat, animal protein and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a powerful growth promoting hormone and known cancer culprit.
Also animal products are acidic and create an environment in which cancer thrives.
Also meat fat is a magnet for chemical carcinogens that are stored and accumulated in fat such as mercury, dioxin, PCBs and DDT.
Meat is also high in oxidants, such as iron, which not only oxidizes cholesterol (which makes it more easily deposited on your arteries), but also promotes free radicals that can mutate your cells' DNA and turn them into renegade cancer cells.
To top it off, animal products lack fiber, which stalls fecal matter in the colon for extended periods leading to colon cancer.
As Dr Ornish, Dr Fuhrman, Dr McDougall and others have shown a plant based diet possesses an arsenal of ingredients that help the body to ward off cancer at a cellular and biochemical level, namely the fiber, phytochemicals, and antioxidants.
Diabetes
20 million diabetics, 1 in every 10 healthcare dollars
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, amputation and kidney failure. Diabetes doubles your chance of having a heart attack or stroke. Diabetes wreaks havoc on your vascular system, turning once-healthy blood vessels sickly.
Type 1 Diabetes is only 5-10%, in which the pancreas cannot produce insulin, the hormone necessary for getting sugar/glucose into your cells to provide your body with the energy they need to work. Imagine every cell has a door with a lock. Insulin is the key that fits the lock, turns and opens the door to deliver glucose.
Type 2 Diabetes, the pancreas still produces insulin, but it is no longer effective at getting glucose into the cells. When you consume a high-fat, animal based diet, your body's cells start to gunk up and cake over with fat. The insulin key cannot open the door because the cells are all gummed up with fat and debris. The glucose you need now ends up circulating in your bloodstream. You are now what is called "insulin resistant" and on your way to becoming a type 2 diabetic.
It used to be called adult onset diabetes but now even kids are starting to get it with the SAD diet.
The good news is a plant based diet can clean up your body and even reverse type 2 diabetes.
Obesity
Some basic truths
1- You will gain weight only if you consume more calories than you burn. Stop eating high calorie meat, dairy and processed foods with added fat/oils and sugar.
Replace with plant based foods
2- People around the world who diets are plant based tend to be thinner than those who arent.
4 calores in protein and carbs
9 calories in fat
Most americans consumes upwards to 40 % of there calories from FAT!! The human body only needs 3-5%. Plant based foods, especially nuts and seeds give you all the fats you need.
Most animal foods are 20-60% fat and have no fiber. Plant foods with fiber help you fill up on less calories.
3- The body has evolved to store extra fat in a very efficient manner. Only a measly 2 percent of fat calories are burned up when fat is stored. This is why the fat you eat is the fat you wear and why fat goes from the lips to the hips.
Once you start eating better you will lose weight and may get even thinner than expected. But once you reach your ideal weight you'll stablize. Stabilizing at a thin, muscular weight occurs because your body give you strong signals to eat, signals that are genuine hunger, because this true hunger maintains your muscle reserve, not your fat reserve. And its harder to lose muscle than fat.
But this book is about energy medicine, not a diet or weight loss program. It turns out that the foods that will give you the most energy, will help you lose weight.
---
More recent evidence
AH-HA
Insulin is a fat storage hormone and it also promotes cancer.
The same fat storage hormones are cancer storage hormones.
Cortisol a stress hormone affects weight gain around the stomach. Fat around the stomach is associated with heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Your waistline is your lifeline.
Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke and Diabetes are the 4 leading causes of death in the U.S. These are ALL lifestyle diseases, NOT genetic diseases.
Perhaps the root cause of most disease is simply our disconnect from Nature and all the essential elements (including the Earth's PEMFs); AND getting too much stress and toxicity from bad foods, drugs, bad water quality and lack of hydration, poor air quality and lack of exercise, not enough sunlight, not enough sleep, too much electrosmog and overall too much emotional and psychological stress.
We are out of sync with Nature and because of that our bodies are stressed. It is this disconnect we need to explore, understand and expose in order to understand why we need to shift back and re-connect to Nature and Her elements.
Most people lose weight for reasons of vanity, but a healthy weight is one of THE keys to more energy and longevity (and staying away from doctors drugs and hospitals).
The Doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition, Thomas Edison.
Food is everywhere.
Every special occasion seems to involve food and feasting
Half of all Americans take a prescription drug.
1/3 US people will develop diabetes in their lifetime
sugar, caffeine and energy drinks masks our chronic fatigue.
In spite of spending more than $110 million every day (over $40 Billion a year) on diet pills, fad diets and programs; Americans are the obese people in history and with the export of many fast food chains obsetity is on the rise worldwide.
Obesity is a better predicter than even cigarette smoking for chronic ailments and quality of life.
A whopping 34% of americans are Obese, which means that more than 1/3 of a persons body must be made of fat. The number one health problem in the U.S. is Obesity and if the current trend continues, by the year 2048 all adults in the United states will be overweight or obese (Fuhrman pg 17). The national institutes of Health estimate that obesity is associated with a two fold increase in mortality, costing society more than $100 billion per year (Fuhrman 17). This is especially discouraging for dieters because after spending so much money attempting to lose weight, 95% of them gain all the weight back and then even add more pounds in 3 years (fuhrman 17).Dr Oz0 In a survey of 9500 Americans, 36 percent were overweight, and 23 percent obese, yet only 19% were daily smokers and 6% heavy drinkers. US surgeon general estimates 300,000 deaths a year linked to obesity. Eating right and exercising lowered the incident of chronic diseases by 60%.
Obesity is not just a cosmetic issue, extra weight leads to an earlier death as many studies confirm (pg 18). Overweight individuals are more likely to die from all causes, including heart disease and cancer. 2/3 of people with weight problems, also have hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or another obesity-related condition (pg 18). Since dieting rarely works and certainly doesnt last, more and more people are turning to weight loss drugs and surgery. And according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wound problems and complications from blood clots are common after-effects of gastric bypass and gastroplasty surgery.
Health Complications of Obesity
- Increased overall premature mortality
- Adult onset Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Degenerative Arthritis
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Cancer
- Lipid Disorders
- Obstructive Sleep Disorders
- Gallstones
- Fatty Infiltration of Liver
- Restrictive Lung Diseases
- Gastrointestinal Diseases
Dieting
Calorie counting, rules, diets, diet drugs, high protein programs, canned shakes and other fads work for a while, but you can't stay on them forever and many times you end up gaining more weight when you get off (due to lower metabolism and increased eating. Gimmicky diets don't work, because no matter how much weight you lose when you are on a diet, you put it right back when you get off. Measuring portions and trying to eat fewer calories, typically called dieting (diet begins with DIE), temporarily slows down your metabolism so often more weight comes back than you lose. This leads to people throwing their hands in the air and saying I have tried everything, dieting doesn't work it must be genetic. We'll see in chapter 5 with the new science of epigenetics that this is NOT TRUE!
The KEY - Eat Foods with a high Nutrient Density and you can eat as much as you want. Refined carbohydrates (white bread and any baked good in the bakery, sugar and most candy and sweets, soft drinks and all bottled, canned sweet beverages (avoid artificial sweetners too), and too much toxic animal products, meats, eggs, cheese. Grass fed meat and fresh raw dairy in moderation. As long as you are eating refined fats, too much fat of any kind, and refined sugars and carbohydrates, you will never long weight or remain healthy. There is just too much research to the contrary.
Genes are not the problem, food choices, stress, lack of sleep and exercise ARE.
Studies done with identical twins found that even those with a strong family history of obesity effectively lose weight with increased physical activity and dietary modifications (pg 20 Fuhrman).
Harvard Study 27 years by Dr I-Min Lee of 19,297 men, found a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. She found the thinnest 1/5 of men experienced the lowest mortality, and mortality or death rates increased progressively with heavier and heavier weight. And many weight tables showing so called ideal weight are probably not accurate. Unless you are muscular, a lower body weight compared to your height is probably more ideal than you realize.
WHO
75% of americans are overweight. Even The world health organization (WHO) estimates that the spread of processed foods and American fast food worldwide has made obesity and the diseases of a low-nutrient, high calorie eating bigger contributors to premature death worldwide than starvation. WHO has stated:
"Households should select predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, pulses or legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods.
Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization. Human vitamin and mineral requirements. Report 2002.
Lifelines in palm reading, but even more important is your waistline.... The longer your waistline, the shorter your lifeline.
BMI is a conventional way to measure if you are overweight or obese. Simply divide your weight in kilograms (divide weight in pounds by 2.2) by your height in meters squared (divide your height in feet by 3.28). For example, I am 165 pounds and 6 feet tall. So my wieght in kilograms is (165/2.2 = 75 kilograms). My height in meters is 6/3.28 = 1.83 meters. So my BMI = (weight in Kilograms)/(height in meters)^2 = (75/1.83^2 = 22.4).
Ideally your BMI should be below 23 UNLESS you are muscular.
Perhaps even more accurate is waist circumference and abdominal fat measurements which better take into account if you have lean muscle mass.
Evidence suggests that abdominal fat measurements are a better predictor of risk than overall weight, BMI or size. Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places such as hips and thigns (stress increases belly fat - stress kills).
When you pinch fat, than inside fat inside abdominal wall and around all the organs.
Just as much fat inside.
Risks diabetes, heart disease, cancer
Better Health late in Life.
If you think you are underweight you probably are NOT. Never overeat to gain weight. Exercise with weights and eat as your hunger dictates but NO MORE. You can gain healthy muscle this way. Otherwise overeating to gain weight without weight training just increaes fat levels.
---
No wonder we have problems with heart diseaese and cancer.
Heart disease (598,689) and cancer (574,743) account for half of all deaths in the U.S based on statistics provided by the CDC and these are preventable diseases! Also preventable by diet are strokes (the 4th leading killer at 129,476) and diabetes (69,071). Together these four PREVENTABLE causes of death account for 60% of ALL fatalities.President Nixon - Cancer Act of 1971 - War of Cancer Started
1.25 million americans suffer a heart attack every year.
Key to a healthy heart
-Be thin - (less than one inch abdominal fat in women, less than 3/4 inch in men)
- Low LDL below 80 and low cholesterol levels below 150.
- Blood pressure must be in normal range.Easy to lower blood pressure --> weight loss, sodium restriction, restrict caffeine and alcohol, increase fiber, increase consumption of fruits and veggies, increase physical activity/exercise.
- Eat plant based high nutrient density diet
Heart Disease
The illness has gained traction in the last century - in 1900, cardiovascular disease was not even in the top 10 causes of death. Now its number one with one death every 26 seconds.
More than half of all heart disease cases, the first symptom is instant death.
What is at the core of this disease? Plaque. Plaque is a waxy, fatty deposit that can build up in various places in the body, including inside the arteries.
Excessive buildup of larger plaques within the arteries limits the flow of oxygen rich blood the heart receives. This process can cause angina or severe discomfort and pain in the chest area.
To prevent the formation of plaques, stop or severely limit animal products. Animal products contain all the building blocks for heart disease: artery clogging saturated fat, plaque promoting cholesterol, cholesterol raising and inflammation causing animal protein, and free radical promoting oxidants.
All these components encourage the buildup of plaque and damage the lining of sixty thousand plus miles of ateries, veins, and capillaries through which your blood flows.
Plant based products (not including processed foods) are more cleansing and protective and discourage plaque buildup with all the vitamins, minerals phytochemicals and bioflavonoids they contain.
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr Dean Ornish, Dr. John McDougall, Dr Joel Fuhrman and other leading doctors have had much success reversing heart disease with a whole food, plant based diet.
Also mention the China Study.
Framington Heart Study - No one in Framington Heart Study with Cholesterol under 150 had a heart atttack. But 35% with Cholesterol between 151 and 200 DID... So make sure you are not just normal, but UNDER 150. Also try to get LDL under 80.
How? With a whole food, plant based diet.
Stroke
Nearly 700,000 people suffer strokes anually and around 130,000 die.
A stroke is similar to a heart attack, but happens in the brain. It can occur one of two ways. The first type is called an ischemic stroke which is the result of a blood clot or narrowing of the arteries to the brain.
The second type is a hemorrhagic stroke, which occurs when one of the arteries leading to the brain ruptures. In both cases, there isnt enough oxygen rich blood feeding and nourishing the brain. Nerve cells in the brain then die affecting the part of the body those cells control.
Keeping your blood pressure in check can narrow the risk, but eating meat, dairy, eggs, and added oils raises blood pressure in several ways.
1- Narrow and clogged vessels create an increase in pressure throughout the body.
2- The saturated fat in meat and dairy makes blood thicker, which also requires an increase in pressure to move
3- Animal products are usually high in sodium, causing the body and blood to retain fluid, which again increases blood pressure
Americans consume way too salt - see section on salt.
According to the Framington Heart Study, for every 3 addtional servings of fruits and veggies you eat a day, the risk of stroke is reduced by 22% !
Cancer - The C word. It fans fear in the hearts of Americans. And rightfully so, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US. 1 in 3 Americans will get cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 4 will dies from it.
Cancer starts at the cellular level, where normal cells become abnormal due to various environmental, nutritional, or chemical stresses. Then they start to grow and divide wildly refusing to die, doubling every 100 days - and yet it can take 10 to 15 years before such cancers reach the size of a match tip!
Eventually the renegrade cells clump together to form a tumor, killing off healthy tissue as it competes for space, and blood vessels to acquire nutrients.
So like heart disease, cancer starts a long time before it manifest on a larger level.
But you can lower your cancer risk by NOT feeding it the things it craves to flourish - dairy, meat, eggs, oils, processed sugar, tobacco and alcohol.
Even if you have cancer you can reduce its growth ly lessoning your reliance on animal products (meat, dairy and eggs). Meat and dairy products contain cancer promoting saturated fat, animal protein and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a powerful growth promoting hormone and known cancer culprit.
Also animal products are acidic and create an environment in which cancer thrives.
Also meat fat is a magnet for chemical carcinogens that are stored and accumulated in fat such as mercury, dioxin, PCBs and DDT.
Meat is also high in oxidants, such as iron, which not only oxidizes cholesterol (which makes it more easily deposited on your arteries), but also promotes free radicals that can mutate your cells' DNA and turn them into renegade cancer cells.
To top it off, animal products lack fiber, which stalls fecal matter in the colon for extended periods leading to colon cancer.
As Dr Ornish, Dr Fuhrman, Dr McDougall and others have shown a plant based diet possesses an arsenal of ingredients that help the body to ward off cancer at a cellular and biochemical level, namely the fiber, phytochemicals, and antioxidants.
Diabetes
20 million diabetics, 1 in every 10 healthcare dollars
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, amputation and kidney failure. Diabetes doubles your chance of having a heart attack or stroke. Diabetes wreaks havoc on your vascular system, turning once-healthy blood vessels sickly.
Type 1 Diabetes is only 5-10%, in which the pancreas cannot produce insulin, the hormone necessary for getting sugar/glucose into your cells to provide your body with the energy they need to work. Imagine every cell has a door with a lock. Insulin is the key that fits the lock, turns and opens the door to deliver glucose.
Type 2 Diabetes, the pancreas still produces insulin, but it is no longer effective at getting glucose into the cells. When you consume a high-fat, animal based diet, your body's cells start to gunk up and cake over with fat. The insulin key cannot open the door because the cells are all gummed up with fat and debris. The glucose you need now ends up circulating in your bloodstream. You are now what is called "insulin resistant" and on your way to becoming a type 2 diabetic.
It used to be called adult onset diabetes but now even kids are starting to get it with the SAD diet.
The good news is a plant based diet can clean up your body and even reverse type 2 diabetes.
Obesity
Some basic truths
1- You will gain weight only if you consume more calories than you burn. Stop eating high calorie meat, dairy and processed foods with added fat/oils and sugar.
Replace with plant based foods
2- People around the world who diets are plant based tend to be thinner than those who arent.
4 calores in protein and carbs
9 calories in fat
Most americans consumes upwards to 40 % of there calories from FAT!! The human body only needs 3-5%. Plant based foods, especially nuts and seeds give you all the fats you need.
Most animal foods are 20-60% fat and have no fiber. Plant foods with fiber help you fill up on less calories.
3- The body has evolved to store extra fat in a very efficient manner. Only a measly 2 percent of fat calories are burned up when fat is stored. This is why the fat you eat is the fat you wear and why fat goes from the lips to the hips.
Once you start eating better you will lose weight and may get even thinner than expected. But once you reach your ideal weight you'll stablize. Stabilizing at a thin, muscular weight occurs because your body give you strong signals to eat, signals that are genuine hunger, because this true hunger maintains your muscle reserve, not your fat reserve. And its harder to lose muscle than fat.
But this book is about energy medicine, not a diet or weight loss program. It turns out that the foods that will give you the most energy, will help you lose weight.
---
More recent evidence
AH-HA
Insulin is a fat storage hormone and it also promotes cancer.
The same fat storage hormones are cancer storage hormones.
Cortisol a stress hormone affects weight gain around the stomach. Fat around the stomach is associated with heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Your waistline is your lifeline.
No wonder we have problems with heart diseaese and cancer.
Heart disease (598,689) and cancer (574,743) account for half of all deaths in the U.S based on statistics provided by the CDC and these are preventable diseases! Also preventable by diet are strokes (the 4th leading killer at 129,476) and diabetes (69,071). Together these four PREVENTABLE causes of death account for 60% of ALL fatalities.President Nixon - Cancer Act of 1971 - War of Cancer Started
1.25 million americans suffer a heart attack every year.
Key to a healthy heart
-Be thin - (less than one inch abdominal fat in women, less than 3/4 inch in men)
- Low LDL below 100 and low cholesterol levels.
- Blood pressure must be in normal range.Easy to lower blood pressure --> weight loss, sodium restriction, restrict caffeine and alcohol, increase fiber, increase consumption of fruits and veggies, increase physical activity/exercise.
- Eat plant based high nutrient density diet
Surgery is not the answer... For example, you lose brain function every time put under leading to dementia.
Also, 25% of arteries treated by angioplasty clog up again within 4-6months (called restinosis).
Also you delude yourself if you think chelation or drugs will help. Chelation DOES not dissolve fatty plaques... Many studies have shown this.
The Effect of Dietary Protein on Carcinogeneis of Aflatoxin
20% casein turned on cancer
5% turned it off
T colin campbell was finding animal protein turns on cancer
20 million diabetics - Diabetes is the consequence of obesity
More than 80% of adults with Type II diabetes die of heart attacks or strokes
Worldwide, countries that have increased weight gain, have increased type II diabetes.
Work with a doctor that understands nutrition, you don't have to control diabetes, you can get rid of it.
Dr Fuhrman's Diabetic Diet --> Page 195
Campbell 1975 Cornell University
Duplicated the 20% - 5% test rats casein
Turn on and off cancer growth
20% diet in plant protein from soybeans and wheat DID NOT produce cancer
Patients are told food has nothing to do with disease.
The problem is the standard american diet is designed for disease.
According to the USDA Economic research service, Americans consume about 25 percent of their calories from fiberless animal foods, and another 63 percent from refined carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, etc) and processed oils. About half the vegetables consumed are potatoes and half the potatoes consumed are chips or fries.
So excluding potatoes, americans consume a mere 5% of their calories from fruits, vegetables, and legumes... A Measily 5%!!
The food that is most ideally suited for the human body is only about 1/20 of our consumption.
Poor Societies
Obviously, the economically poorer regions of the world have significant public health problems
Poor sanitation
Lack of Clean Water
Poverty and Malnutrition
High Infant Mortality Rates
High Rates of Infectious Diseases
In spite of all these things that cause an early death, according the WHO, for people between the ages 55-75 in these poor societies, there are very few deaths due to cancer and heart disease. Interestingly these poorer societies eat a LOT more plant food.
Can you imagine the health potential of a society that would be able to enjoy excellent sanitation, emercency medical care, refrigeration, clean water, flush toilets and the availability of fresh produce year round. We have this opportunity TODAY!
Major studies have been conducted showing conclusively that certain fresh fruits and vegetables lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.
(Fuhrman 62)
Specificallys many studies have shown that raw vegetables and fruits have powerful anticancer agents. Studies show a correlation between consumption of these foods with lower incidences of cancer, including breast, colon, rectum, lung, stomach, prostate and pancreas. (fuhrman 62).
After years of examing the accumulating evidence, eight top health organizations joined forces to encourage Americans to eat more unrefined plant food and less food from animal sources as revealed in the dietary guidelines published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
These Authorities are:
1) The Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association
2) The American Cancer Society
3) The American Academy of Pediatrics
4) The Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young
5) The Council on Epidemiology and Prevention
6) The American Dietetic Association
7) The Division of Nutrition Research of the National Institutes of Health
8) The American Society for Clinical Nutrition
"The emphasis is on eating a variety of foods, mostly fruits and vegetables, with very little simple sugar or high fat foods, especially animal foods", said Abby Bloch, former chair of the American Cancer Society.
You cannot buy your health, you must earn it.
99% of your genes are programmed to keep you healthy.
Heart disease (598,689) and cancer (574,743) account for half of all deaths in the U.S based on statistics provided by the CDC and these are preventable diseases! Also preventable by diet are strokes (the 4th leading killer at 129,476) and diabetes (69,071). Together these four PREVENTABLE causes of death account for 60% of ALL fatalities.President Nixon - Cancer Act of 1971 - War of Cancer Started
1.25 million americans suffer a heart attack every year.
Key to a healthy heart
-Be thin - (less than one inch abdominal fat in women, less than 3/4 inch in men)
- Low LDL below 100 and low cholesterol levels.
- Blood pressure must be in normal range.Easy to lower blood pressure --> weight loss, sodium restriction, restrict caffeine and alcohol, increase fiber, increase consumption of fruits and veggies, increase physical activity/exercise.
- Eat plant based high nutrient density diet
Surgery is not the answer... For example, you lose brain function every time put under leading to dementia.
Also, 25% of arteries treated by angioplasty clog up again within 4-6months (called restinosis).
Also you delude yourself if you think chelation or drugs will help. Chelation DOES not dissolve fatty plaques... Many studies have shown this.
The Effect of Dietary Protein on Carcinogeneis of Aflatoxin
20% casein turned on cancer
5% turned it off
T colin campbell was finding animal protein turns on cancer
20 million diabetics - Diabetes is the consequence of obesity
More than 80% of adults with Type II diabetes die of heart attacks or strokes
Worldwide, countries that have increased weight gain, have increased type II diabetes.
Work with a doctor that understands nutrition, you don't have to control diabetes, you can get rid of it.
Dr Fuhrman's Diabetic Diet --> Page 195
Campbell 1975 Cornell University
Duplicated the 20% - 5% test rats casein
Turn on and off cancer growth
20% diet in plant protein from soybeans and wheat DID NOT produce cancer
Patients are told food has nothing to do with disease.
The problem is the standard american diet is designed for disease.
According to the USDA Economic research service, Americans consume about 25 percent of their calories from fiberless animal foods, and another 63 percent from refined carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, etc) and processed oils. About half the vegetables consumed are potatoes and half the potatoes consumed are chips or fries.
So excluding potatoes, americans consume a mere 5% of their calories from fruits, vegetables, and legumes... A Measily 5%!!
The food that is most ideally suited for the human body is only about 1/20 of our consumption.
Poor Societies
Obviously, the economically poorer regions of the world have significant public health problems
Poor sanitation
Lack of Clean Water
Poverty and Malnutrition
High Infant Mortality Rates
High Rates of Infectious Diseases
In spite of all these things that cause an early death, according the WHO, for people between the ages 55-75 in these poor societies, there are very few deaths due to cancer and heart disease. Interestingly these poorer societies eat a LOT more plant food.
Can you imagine the health potential of a society that would be able to enjoy excellent sanitation, emercency medical care, refrigeration, clean water, flush toilets and the availability of fresh produce year round. We have this opportunity TODAY!
Major studies have been conducted showing conclusively that certain fresh fruits and vegetables lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.
(Fuhrman 62)
Specificallys many studies have shown that raw vegetables and fruits have powerful anticancer agents. Studies show a correlation between consumption of these foods with lower incidences of cancer, including breast, colon, rectum, lung, stomach, prostate and pancreas. (fuhrman 62).
After years of examing the accumulating evidence, eight top health organizations joined forces to encourage Americans to eat more unrefined plant food and less food from animal sources as revealed in the dietary guidelines published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
These Authorities are:
1) The Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association
2) The American Cancer Society
3) The American Academy of Pediatrics
4) The Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young
5) The Council on Epidemiology and Prevention
6) The American Dietetic Association
7) The Division of Nutrition Research of the National Institutes of Health
8) The American Society for Clinical Nutrition
"The emphasis is on eating a variety of foods, mostly fruits and vegetables, with very little simple sugar or high fat foods, especially animal foods", said Abby Bloch, former chair of the American Cancer Society.
You cannot buy your health, you must earn it.
99% of your genes are programmed to keep you healthy.
According to the "Journal of the American Medical Association," Vol 284, July 26, 2000, iatrogenic (treatment related) causes constitute the third leading cause of deaths in America, behind cancer and heart disease. Iatrogenic is defined as "induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy--especially as a complication of treatment." The fact of the matter is that according to the JAMA article, 250,000 people die per year from iatrogenic causes. This figure is up 236% from the figure reported in 1994 and it has only gotten worse.
We need a shift!
Drugs only treat symptoms and always have side effects. Even according to JAMA, pharmaceutical drugs alone cause over 180,000 deaths a year making it the number 4 cause of death in the U.S.
(To make these above two statistics worse statistics, according to Medwatch, less than 1 percent of all serious drug reactions are reported to the FDA.)
So based on recent data, the number of iatrogenic deaths is AT LEAST 360,000! And this is based on grossly conservative data! And Things may be MUCH worse***(see footnote below).
***Footnote: According to the book "Death by Medicine", things may be even worse than medical journals report.
The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. Death by Medicine----Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, Martin Feldman, MD, Gary Null, PhD, Debora Rasio, MD (2003/4)
We need a shift!
According to the most recent data from the World Health Organization, the U.S. ranks 42th in health care systems while spending more than the rest combined? As a comparison, Chile ranks #41 ahead of us and averages $254/person on healthcare a year. The U.S. ranks #42 and spends $7400+/person! This is one of the most shocking statistics that shows in an exaggerated way just how badly our healthcare system is failing!
We need a shift!
Did you know that while the United States makes up only five percent of the world's population, we consume over 50 percent of all the world's pharmaceutical drugs?
We need a shift!
Drugs only treat symptoms and always have side effects. Even according to JAMA, pharmaceutical drugs alone cause over 180,000 deaths a year making it the number 4 cause of death in the U.S.
(To make these above two statistics worse statistics, according to Medwatch, less than 1 percent of all serious drug reactions are reported to the FDA.)
So based on recent data, the number of iatrogenic deaths is AT LEAST 360,000! And this is based on grossly conservative data! And Things may be MUCH worse***(see footnote below).
***Footnote: According to the book "Death by Medicine", things may be even worse than medical journals report.
The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. Death by Medicine----Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, Martin Feldman, MD, Gary Null, PhD, Debora Rasio, MD (2003/4)
We need a shift!
According to the most recent data from the World Health Organization, the U.S. ranks 42th in health care systems while spending more than the rest combined? As a comparison, Chile ranks #41 ahead of us and averages $254/person on healthcare a year. The U.S. ranks #42 and spends $7400+/person! This is one of the most shocking statistics that shows in an exaggerated way just how badly our healthcare system is failing!
We need a shift!
Did you know that while the United States makes up only five percent of the world's population, we consume over 50 percent of all the world's pharmaceutical drugs?
SHIFT verb \ˈshift\
1: to exchange for or replace by another: change
2: to change the place, position, or direction of: move
3: to make a change in (place)
4 : to change phonetically
1) We need to exchange and replace our medical system with a New Model that is holistically and energy based; preventative and empowering that is in alignment with the New Physics and the New Understandings of Quantum Biology (which this book will teach).
2) We need to move in the direction of prevention: Empower and educate ourselves to eat good food, drink pure water, get plenty of sleep and exercise, sunshine, fresh air and natural Earth magnetism. We need to move in the direction of these positive and preventative health practices that keep us healthy so we can avoid doctors and hospitals altogether.
3) We need to change the place of healing from the hospital to the home, and make our dwelling nurturing, healthful, peaceful and beautiful environment. Hospitals breed disease physically (food, water, lighting, air, drugs, germs, like earth PEMF) and mentally, negative diagnosis, prognosis and bad news.
4) We need to change phonetically our language from Newtonian to Quantum, from reductionist to holistic, from chemistry to energy and from particles to fields. We need to understand we are not isolated and alone in a dead, sterile universe; but deeply connected to all life by the invisible and energetic zero point field.
1: to exchange for or replace by another: change
2: to change the place, position, or direction of: move
3: to make a change in (place)
4 : to change phonetically
1) We need to exchange and replace our medical system with a New Model that is holistically and energy based; preventative and empowering that is in alignment with the New Physics and the New Understandings of Quantum Biology (which this book will teach).
2) We need to move in the direction of prevention: Empower and educate ourselves to eat good food, drink pure water, get plenty of sleep and exercise, sunshine, fresh air and natural Earth magnetism. We need to move in the direction of these positive and preventative health practices that keep us healthy so we can avoid doctors and hospitals altogether.
3) We need to change the place of healing from the hospital to the home, and make our dwelling nurturing, healthful, peaceful and beautiful environment. Hospitals breed disease physically (food, water, lighting, air, drugs, germs, like earth PEMF) and mentally, negative diagnosis, prognosis and bad news.
4) We need to change phonetically our language from Newtonian to Quantum, from reductionist to holistic, from chemistry to energy and from particles to fields. We need to understand we are not isolated and alone in a dead, sterile universe; but deeply connected to all life by the invisible and energetic zero point field.
Diet begins with DIE
Dieting
Calorie counting, rules, diets, diet drugs, high protein programs, canned shakes and other fads work for a while, but you can't stay on them forever and many times you end up gaining more weight when you get off (due to lower metabolism and increased eating. Gimmicky diets don't work, because no matter how much weight you lose when you are on a diet, you put it right back when you get off. Measuring portions and trying to eat fewer calories, typically called dieting (diet begins with DIE), temporarily slows down your metabolism so often more weight comes back than you lose. This leads to people throwing their hands in the air and saying I have tried everything, dieting doesn't work it must be genetic. We'll see in chapter 5 with the new science of epigenetics that this is NOT TRUE!
The KEY - Eat Foods with a high Nutrient Density and you can eat as much as you want. Refined carbohydrates (white bread and any baked good in the bakery, sugar and most candy and sweets, soft drinks and all bottled, canned sweet beverages (avoid artificial sweetners too), and too much toxic animal products, meats, eggs, cheese. Grass fed meat and fresh raw dairy in moderation. As long as you are eating refined fats, too much fat of any kind, and refined sugars and carbohydrates, you will never long weight or remain healthy. There is just too much research to the contrary.
Genes are not the problem, food choices, stress, lack of sleep and exercise ARE.
Studies done with identical twins found that even those with a strong family history of obesity effectively lose weight with increased physical activity and dietary modifications (pg 20 Fuhrman).
The 1992 Bogalusa Heart Study confirmed the existance of fatty plaques and streaks (the beginning of atherosclerosis) in most children and teenagers (from autopsies of kids kill in accidents) - page 22 Fuhrman. You wouldn't let your kids sit around the table smoking cigars and drinking vodka, but somehow its ok to let them consume fast foods and soft drinks regularly which have high amounts of fat, sugar and refined carbohydrates and very little nutrients.
Besides the Bogalusa Study, another autopsy study appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 85% of adults between the ages of 21 and 39 already had athersclerosis in their artieries (fuhrman 22). Fibrous plaques and fatty streaks covered large areas of their coronary arteries. Everyone knows fast foods are not healthy, but few people really understand the consequences. Watch Supersize me.
Harvard Study 27 years by Dr I-Min Lee of 19,297 men, found a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. She found the thinnest 1/5 of men experienced the lowest mortality, and mortality or death rates increased progressively with heavier and heavier weight. And many weight tables showing so called ideal weight are probably not accurate. Unless you are muscular, a lower body weight compared to your height is probably more ideal than you realize.
Lifelines in palm reading, but even more important is your waistline.... The longer your waistline, the shorter your lifeline.
BMI is a conventional way to measure if you are overweight or obese. Simply divide your weight in kilograms (divide weight in pounds by 2.2) by your height in meters squared (divide your height in feet by 3.28). For example, I am 165 pounds and 6 feet tall. So my wieght in kilograms is (165/2.2 = 75 kilograms). My height in meters is 6/3.28 = 1.83 meters. So my BMI = (weight in Kilograms)/(height in meters)^2 = (75/1.83^2 = 22.4).
Ideally your BMI should be below 23 UNLESS you are muscular.
Perhaps even more accurate is waist circumference and abdominal fat measurements which better take into account if you have lean muscle mass.
Evidence suggests that abdominal fat measurements are a better predictor of risk than overall weight, BMI or size. Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places such as hips and thigns (stress increases belly fat - stress kills).
If you think you are underweight you probably are NOT. Never overeat to gain weight. Exercise with weights and eat as your hunger dictates but NO MORE. You can gain healthy muscle this way. Otherwise overeating to gain weight without weight training just increaes fat levels.
Once you start eating better you will lose weight and may get even thinner than expected. But once you reach your ideal weight you'll stablize. Stabilizing at a thin, muscular weight occurs because your body give you strong signals to eat, signals that are genuine hunger, because this true hunger maintains your muscle reserve, not your fat reserve. And its harder to lose muscle than fat.
But this book is about energy medicine, not a diet or weight loss program. It turns out that the foods that will give you the most energy, will help you lose weight.
Calorie counting, rules, diets, diet drugs, high protein programs, canned shakes and other fads work for a while, but you can't stay on them forever and many times you end up gaining more weight when you get off (due to lower metabolism and increased eating. Gimmicky diets don't work, because no matter how much weight you lose when you are on a diet, you put it right back when you get off. Measuring portions and trying to eat fewer calories, typically called dieting (diet begins with DIE), temporarily slows down your metabolism so often more weight comes back than you lose. This leads to people throwing their hands in the air and saying I have tried everything, dieting doesn't work it must be genetic. We'll see in chapter 5 with the new science of epigenetics that this is NOT TRUE!
The KEY - Eat Foods with a high Nutrient Density and you can eat as much as you want. Refined carbohydrates (white bread and any baked good in the bakery, sugar and most candy and sweets, soft drinks and all bottled, canned sweet beverages (avoid artificial sweetners too), and too much toxic animal products, meats, eggs, cheese. Grass fed meat and fresh raw dairy in moderation. As long as you are eating refined fats, too much fat of any kind, and refined sugars and carbohydrates, you will never long weight or remain healthy. There is just too much research to the contrary.
Genes are not the problem, food choices, stress, lack of sleep and exercise ARE.
Studies done with identical twins found that even those with a strong family history of obesity effectively lose weight with increased physical activity and dietary modifications (pg 20 Fuhrman).
The 1992 Bogalusa Heart Study confirmed the existance of fatty plaques and streaks (the beginning of atherosclerosis) in most children and teenagers (from autopsies of kids kill in accidents) - page 22 Fuhrman. You wouldn't let your kids sit around the table smoking cigars and drinking vodka, but somehow its ok to let them consume fast foods and soft drinks regularly which have high amounts of fat, sugar and refined carbohydrates and very little nutrients.
Besides the Bogalusa Study, another autopsy study appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 85% of adults between the ages of 21 and 39 already had athersclerosis in their artieries (fuhrman 22). Fibrous plaques and fatty streaks covered large areas of their coronary arteries. Everyone knows fast foods are not healthy, but few people really understand the consequences. Watch Supersize me.
Harvard Study 27 years by Dr I-Min Lee of 19,297 men, found a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. She found the thinnest 1/5 of men experienced the lowest mortality, and mortality or death rates increased progressively with heavier and heavier weight. And many weight tables showing so called ideal weight are probably not accurate. Unless you are muscular, a lower body weight compared to your height is probably more ideal than you realize.
Lifelines in palm reading, but even more important is your waistline.... The longer your waistline, the shorter your lifeline.
BMI is a conventional way to measure if you are overweight or obese. Simply divide your weight in kilograms (divide weight in pounds by 2.2) by your height in meters squared (divide your height in feet by 3.28). For example, I am 165 pounds and 6 feet tall. So my wieght in kilograms is (165/2.2 = 75 kilograms). My height in meters is 6/3.28 = 1.83 meters. So my BMI = (weight in Kilograms)/(height in meters)^2 = (75/1.83^2 = 22.4).
Ideally your BMI should be below 23 UNLESS you are muscular.
Perhaps even more accurate is waist circumference and abdominal fat measurements which better take into account if you have lean muscle mass.
Evidence suggests that abdominal fat measurements are a better predictor of risk than overall weight, BMI or size. Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places such as hips and thigns (stress increases belly fat - stress kills).
If you think you are underweight you probably are NOT. Never overeat to gain weight. Exercise with weights and eat as your hunger dictates but NO MORE. You can gain healthy muscle this way. Otherwise overeating to gain weight without weight training just increaes fat levels.
Once you start eating better you will lose weight and may get even thinner than expected. But once you reach your ideal weight you'll stablize. Stabilizing at a thin, muscular weight occurs because your body give you strong signals to eat, signals that are genuine hunger, because this true hunger maintains your muscle reserve, not your fat reserve. And its harder to lose muscle than fat.
But this book is about energy medicine, not a diet or weight loss program. It turns out that the foods that will give you the most energy, will help you lose weight.
Heart disease can melt away with proper nutrition
Drugs and surgery not the answer
Drugs are like a permission pad - Doctors will just take care of me…
Campbell and Caldwell Esselstyn
Whole food plant based diet
Avoid animal food, processed flour, sugar and oil
If it walks, hops, swims crawls, slithers, has eyes a mom and a dad, don't eat it.
Reverse Heart Disease
Reversal of Heart Disease
Endothelial Cells - Manufactured the gas NO - keeps blood flowing smoothly, and inhibits formation of plaque, and eliminates inflammation.
Typically western diet, destroy endothelial cells.
Blood pressure meds lowers systolic but lowers dialstoylic too low that can cause arrhythmia
Whole food, plant based diet, reverses damage and endothelial cells
Essestein removed dairy after seeing China Study.
ED is a warning sign.
Heart disease is a toothless tiger that does not need to exist and if it does it, it can be halted and reversed.
Cut our meat and do it "cold turkey"
Epidemilogical studies in primitive cultures no heart disease and cancer
China Health Study
Framinham Study - 1000 people 40 years - ideal weight, did not smoke, cholesterol under 150
Green vegetables prevent plaque from binding to blood vessels
In natural foods, nature has provided substances that protect you from disease.
Waterfall hits a rock and eventually rock splits… takes time…
Primitive cultures with long lived people - the elders have blood pressure the same as children.
Drugs and surgery not the answer
Drugs are like a permission pad - Doctors will just take care of me…
Campbell and Caldwell Esselstyn
Whole food plant based diet
Avoid animal food, processed flour, sugar and oil
If it walks, hops, swims crawls, slithers, has eyes a mom and a dad, don't eat it.
Reverse Heart Disease
Reversal of Heart Disease
Endothelial Cells - Manufactured the gas NO - keeps blood flowing smoothly, and inhibits formation of plaque, and eliminates inflammation.
Typically western diet, destroy endothelial cells.
Blood pressure meds lowers systolic but lowers dialstoylic too low that can cause arrhythmia
Whole food, plant based diet, reverses damage and endothelial cells
Essestein removed dairy after seeing China Study.
ED is a warning sign.
Heart disease is a toothless tiger that does not need to exist and if it does it, it can be halted and reversed.
Cut our meat and do it "cold turkey"
Epidemilogical studies in primitive cultures no heart disease and cancer
China Health Study
Framinham Study - 1000 people 40 years - ideal weight, did not smoke, cholesterol under 150
Green vegetables prevent plaque from binding to blood vessels
In natural foods, nature has provided substances that protect you from disease.
Waterfall hits a rock and eventually rock splits… takes time…
Primitive cultures with long lived people - the elders have blood pressure the same as children.
Most Important Health Study Ever?
974 Chinese Choa in Lia hoptialized bladder cancer
Initiated Largest and
650,000 researchers 1973-1975 analyzed cancer in.
180,000,000 people analyzed
Atlas of cancer mortality in China
Difference Cancers clustered in certain hot spots
367 diet related variables
65 counties scattered across China in rural counties.
6500 people in chosen counties
1983 - Analyzed vast amount of information collected. Took Years.
1990 - Published China
367 Variables
8000-9000 correlations between diet and disease
Hundreds of details tables and charts
Plant food based diet ALWAYS associated with lower mortality of cancer and heart
New York Times called it - The Most Comprehensive Large Study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of disease.
Summary: What is The China Study? It’s the largest comprehensive study of human nutrition ever conducted. It was launched via a partnership between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine. The groundbreaking results from the study (and other influential nutrition research) recommend the best diet for long-term health.
1. American health statistics are scary. You may feel fit as a fiddle, but the country is unwell. Almost a third of adults over 20 are obese; one out of thirteen people have diabetes; and heart disease kills one out of every three Americans. We also pay more for our health care than any other country, and we don’t have better health to show for it.
2. Animal protein promotes the growth of cancer. The book author T. Colin Campbell, PhD., grew up on a dairy farm, so he regularly enjoyed a wholesome glass of milk. Not anymore. In multiple, peer-reviewed animal studies, researchers discovered that they could actually turn the growth of cancer cells on and off by raising and lowering doses of casein, the main protein found in cow’s milk.
3. Pesticides are gross, but none switch on cancer like poor nutrition. The food you eat affects the way your cells interact with carcinogens, making them more or less dangerous. “The results of these, and many other studies, showed nutrition to be far more important in controlling cancer promotion than the dose of the initiating carcinogen.”
4. The study findings are bulletproof. After years of controversial lab results on animals, the researchers had to see how they played out in humans. The study they created included 367 variables, 65 counties in China, and 6,500 adults (who completed questionnaires, blood tests, etc.). “When we were done, we had more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between lifestyle, diet, and disease variables.” In other words, there’s no arguing with the findings, Meat Council of America. Sorry.
5. The results are simple: Eat plants for health. “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest.”
6. Heart disease can be reversed through nutrition. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., a physician and researcher at the best cardiac center in the country, The Cleveland Clinic, treated 18 patients with established coronary disease with a whole foods, plant-based diet. Not only did the intervention stop the progression of the disease, but 70 percent of the patients saw an opening of their clogged arteries. Dr. Dean Ornish, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, completed a similar study with consistent results.
7. Carbs are not the enemy. Highly-processed, refined carbohydrates are bad for you. But plant foods are full of healthy carbs. Research shows that diets like the Atkins or South Beach can actually cause dangerous side effects. While they may result in short-term weight loss, you’ll be sacrificing long-term health.
8. Plants are powerful. It’s not just cancer and heart disease that respond to a whole foods, plant-based diet. It may also help protect you from diabetes, obesity, autoimmune diseases, bone, kidney, eye, and brain diseases.
9. You don’t have to tailor your diet for specific health benefits. Eating healthy can seem segmented—broccoli will prevent breast cancer, carrots are good for eyes, did you get enough vitamin C today? “Nutrition that is truly beneficial for one chronic disease will support health across the board.”
10. Plants do it better. “There are virtually no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better provided by plants.” Protein (YES, PROTEIN!), fiber, vitamins, minerals—you name it, they’ve got it, and the health benefits.
All animal products are low (or completely lacking) in the nutrients that protect us from cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes - fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, folate, vitamin E, and plant proteins.
AND they are RICH in substances that scientific investigations have shown to be associated with cancer and heart attacks - saturated fat, cholesterol, and aracchidonic acid (fuhrman 85 - long list of studies).
Diets rich in animal products are also associated with high blood levels of the hormone IGF - 1, which is a known risk factor for several types of cancer.
And it didn't seem to matter too much if it was low fat meat, dark or white meat or beef or chicken. Regarding cholesterol, you may be shocked to know that there is no advantage to eating lean white instead of lean red/dark meat.
In fact in some ways chicked (especially grilled chicken) can be as bad or worse than beef.
Chicken has about the same amount of cholesterol as beef and an even higher amount of cancer causing HCAs (Heterocyclic Amines) are found in grilled chicken compared to meat.
Animal foods also speed up pubescence which is a known marker for life extension in ALL animals
The Effect of Dietary Protein on Carcinogeneis of Aflatoxin
20% casein turned on cancer
5% turned it off
T colin campbell was finding animal protein turns on cancer
Initiated Largest and
650,000 researchers 1973-1975 analyzed cancer in.
180,000,000 people analyzed
Atlas of cancer mortality in China
Difference Cancers clustered in certain hot spots
367 diet related variables
65 counties scattered across China in rural counties.
6500 people in chosen counties
1983 - Analyzed vast amount of information collected. Took Years.
1990 - Published China
367 Variables
8000-9000 correlations between diet and disease
Hundreds of details tables and charts
Plant food based diet ALWAYS associated with lower mortality of cancer and heart
New York Times called it - The Most Comprehensive Large Study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of disease.
Summary: What is The China Study? It’s the largest comprehensive study of human nutrition ever conducted. It was launched via a partnership between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine. The groundbreaking results from the study (and other influential nutrition research) recommend the best diet for long-term health.
1. American health statistics are scary. You may feel fit as a fiddle, but the country is unwell. Almost a third of adults over 20 are obese; one out of thirteen people have diabetes; and heart disease kills one out of every three Americans. We also pay more for our health care than any other country, and we don’t have better health to show for it.
2. Animal protein promotes the growth of cancer. The book author T. Colin Campbell, PhD., grew up on a dairy farm, so he regularly enjoyed a wholesome glass of milk. Not anymore. In multiple, peer-reviewed animal studies, researchers discovered that they could actually turn the growth of cancer cells on and off by raising and lowering doses of casein, the main protein found in cow’s milk.
3. Pesticides are gross, but none switch on cancer like poor nutrition. The food you eat affects the way your cells interact with carcinogens, making them more or less dangerous. “The results of these, and many other studies, showed nutrition to be far more important in controlling cancer promotion than the dose of the initiating carcinogen.”
4. The study findings are bulletproof. After years of controversial lab results on animals, the researchers had to see how they played out in humans. The study they created included 367 variables, 65 counties in China, and 6,500 adults (who completed questionnaires, blood tests, etc.). “When we were done, we had more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between lifestyle, diet, and disease variables.” In other words, there’s no arguing with the findings, Meat Council of America. Sorry.
5. The results are simple: Eat plants for health. “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest.”
6. Heart disease can be reversed through nutrition. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., a physician and researcher at the best cardiac center in the country, The Cleveland Clinic, treated 18 patients with established coronary disease with a whole foods, plant-based diet. Not only did the intervention stop the progression of the disease, but 70 percent of the patients saw an opening of their clogged arteries. Dr. Dean Ornish, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, completed a similar study with consistent results.
7. Carbs are not the enemy. Highly-processed, refined carbohydrates are bad for you. But plant foods are full of healthy carbs. Research shows that diets like the Atkins or South Beach can actually cause dangerous side effects. While they may result in short-term weight loss, you’ll be sacrificing long-term health.
8. Plants are powerful. It’s not just cancer and heart disease that respond to a whole foods, plant-based diet. It may also help protect you from diabetes, obesity, autoimmune diseases, bone, kidney, eye, and brain diseases.
9. You don’t have to tailor your diet for specific health benefits. Eating healthy can seem segmented—broccoli will prevent breast cancer, carrots are good for eyes, did you get enough vitamin C today? “Nutrition that is truly beneficial for one chronic disease will support health across the board.”
10. Plants do it better. “There are virtually no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better provided by plants.” Protein (YES, PROTEIN!), fiber, vitamins, minerals—you name it, they’ve got it, and the health benefits.
All animal products are low (or completely lacking) in the nutrients that protect us from cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes - fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, folate, vitamin E, and plant proteins.
AND they are RICH in substances that scientific investigations have shown to be associated with cancer and heart attacks - saturated fat, cholesterol, and aracchidonic acid (fuhrman 85 - long list of studies).
Diets rich in animal products are also associated with high blood levels of the hormone IGF - 1, which is a known risk factor for several types of cancer.
And it didn't seem to matter too much if it was low fat meat, dark or white meat or beef or chicken. Regarding cholesterol, you may be shocked to know that there is no advantage to eating lean white instead of lean red/dark meat.
In fact in some ways chicked (especially grilled chicken) can be as bad or worse than beef.
Chicken has about the same amount of cholesterol as beef and an even higher amount of cancer causing HCAs (Heterocyclic Amines) are found in grilled chicken compared to meat.
Animal foods also speed up pubescence which is a known marker for life extension in ALL animals
The Effect of Dietary Protein on Carcinogeneis of Aflatoxin
20% casein turned on cancer
5% turned it off
T colin campbell was finding animal protein turns on cancer
Focus on what we DO EAT on not what we avoid
Core Message of this Book
Based on exhaustive research from around the world, your diet should be ideally at least 80-90% calories from unprocessed and unrefined plant foods.
This is more important than vegan/vegetarian or any other dietary scheme telling you what NOT to eat.
Focus on the positive foods you should eat and try to follow the 80-20 rule. Just remember its 80-20 based on CALORIES not weight!
This is more important than vegan/vegetarian or any other dietary scheme telling you what NOT to eat.
Focus on the positive foods you should eat and try to follow the 80-20 rule. Just remember its 80-20 based on CALORIES not weight!