A Healthy Revolution
There is a revolutionary school of thought about what kind of diet is best for humans to consume.
Surprisingly it is not some radical new blend of supplements, energy shakes or an Atkins meat diet, but instead it is the simplest and most natural diet imaginable – living whole foods. It is not as surprising as it might sound, to find out that there are a whole number of proven health benefits of abandoning the modern diet and replacing it with a ‘back to basics’ diet that is not full of salt, processed sugars, and all sorts of other additives.
It is also not surprising that this is not becoming common knowledge, as if everybody suddenly changed to a healthy diet, the food industry giants would be out of business and they are not going to let that happen anytime soon!
Forks Over Knives – Statistics that Shocked the Professionals
Forks over Knives, is a great film out that addresses all of the issues surrounding this diet, and gives some really astounding figures on the health benefits of a whole food diet. I would advise everybody to go and check it out and watch the film, however dubious you may be. In the film it details the results of some huge studies that took place in China, where the results speak for themselves in terms of the negative effects of eating meat, dairy and processed sugars.
Provinces that did not have access to meat, dairy, and processes sugars as part of their diet had recorded levels of cancers and heart disease, which were less than 17 times what they were in areas where these food types were present. This kind of evidence was found all over the world and it begs the question – why are we not all aware of such facts?
The truth of the matter is that cutting out meat, dairy, additives, processed sugars, sweeteners and other processed foods from your diet can significantly improve your health. Eating living whole foods has been shown to slow down, stop and in some cases even reverse the effects of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. This is something that many people would never believe unless they saw the evidence for themselves. This is why it is so important for those of you who are already aware of the situation to take action for yourself and to spread the word.
The Most Caring Thing You Could Do
It is not going to be easy to change the minds of the masses, but we can all try to make a difference to those in our sphere of influence.
If you imagine all of those in your circle of family and friends that are actually causing damage to their bodies by eating a poor diet, which is subscribed to them by the countless adverts and media pressure, you could have a positive effect on their health by educating them the truth about living whole foods.
This is not an easy thing to do, as many people, especially older people, are very set in their ways. The most caring thing you could do for someone is to try and improve their health situation, in any way that you can.
Many people seem to think that eating a living whole foods diet may be boring and tasteless, but in reality they could not be more wrong. There are a whole variety of flavours and textures to enjoy, and your taste buds will thrive when they are not being bombarded with sweeteners, and fake processed sugars.
Enjoying the natural gifts of the earth is the most exciting culinary experience possible, and it is the way things were intended to be.
The film Forks Over Knives traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned in the late 1960′s with producing “high quality” animal protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third world.
While in the Philippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country’s wealthier children, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animal-based foods, were much more likely to get liver cancer.
Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-based foods were rarely consumed.
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