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30 DAYS TO FEEL AND LOOK BETTER
by Dr. Bruce West
We don't need enemies. We are our own. The food processing industry creates the man-made, sugar-laden, diabetes-causing n-foods that set the stage for disease and suffering. But they are not the cause of sickness and more than 24 million cases of diabetes, we are---by buying and eating these obnoxious concoctions that the human digestive tract was never designed to digest.
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There are so many facts, ideas, theories, and so much hogwash when it comes to health and nutrition. But there are two facts that are indisputable. However, here are four facts that all contending parties in the health and nutrition world-physicians, nutritionists, alternative doctors, biochemists, etc., cannot disagree on.
Fact #1: The people who eat the Western diet of highly processed, sugar-laden, chemically altered, non-foods suffer high rates of the Western diseases of diabetes, heart and coronary artery disease, joint disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. In fact, most degenerative diseases, which are responsible for eating up more than 80% of our entire $2 trillion annual health bill, are caused by the Western diet. In fact, virtually all of the Type-2 diabetes and obesity are caused by this diet. And eight out of ten people with heart and coronary artery disease have this diet as the root cause of their disease. Finally, one of every three people with cancer can trace their cancer to this diet. And these are just a few examples that are testament to the indisputable Fact #1. Fact #2: People who eat traditional diets generally do not suffer from these diseases. It really almost does not matter if the diet is high protein, high fat, or high carbohydrate. What does matter is that traditional diets are comprised of real food, totally unlike the chemicalized, highly processed concoctions of the Western diet.
Fact #3: The Western diet is not really the cause of our disease and suffering.
Rather, we are-by choosing to eat this mash of chemicals while shunning real food.
Fact #4: On the positive side, if you get off the Western diet, you will enjoy dramatic health improvements in a very short period of time. Studies have shown that if you get off the Western diet for just 6 short months, you will enjoy an 80% reduction in your risk of getting heart and/or coronary artery disease, a 90% reduction in your risk of getting Type-2 diabetes, a 70% risk reduction in getting colon cancer, and on and on. And what is response from the food, medical, media, and pharmaceutical industries to these amazing facts -facts that if acted on could balance the health care budget in a year? Zilch! They ignore them.
And why? Because there is too much money to be made in selling highly processed foods, and then caring for and concocting drugs and medical treatments for all the people who do not know they can actually cure themselves. Instead, we search for the "culprit" in our diet that causes our disease - be it trans- fats, or cholesterol, or red meat, or eggs, or butter, or whatever the topic of the month turns out to be.
The other day I listened to a radio show that had Sally Fallon from the Weston A. Price Foundation as a guest. She was asked if she could condense all this into one sentence. Sally didn't even hesitate before she said, ''Eat like your great, great, grandmother." And you can do the same. I challenge you here and now to eat only real, whole foods for 6 months in order to minimize the nutritional deficiencies caused by years of the Western diet. Use only supplements made from food. These are the only ones that your body can fully utilize anyway.
I can guarantee that all your disease parameters will improve and that you will need to have your prescriptions weaned or eliminated. Once this is accomplished, your need for doctor visits will diminish and disappear. And you will feel and look better than you have in years.
It is not all that complicated. The indisputable facts are that we cause our own disease and suffering through food, medicine, and drugs, all giant, money-making industries. And we can get off the food/medical/pharmaceutical merry-go round which will allow us to enjoy major health improvements quickly, easily, and for free.
NOTES:
Michael Pollan, "In Defense of Food", (New York, Penguin Press, 2009
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