The Power of Truth

In his exquisite book People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck describes the relationship between evil, lies and death. He identifies evil as a direct cause and inseparable from lies and death.

This is powerful reality, but I find it best to focus my attention in the other direction. Truth, goodness and life also run in a pack, reinforcing and causing each other.

I love to reflect on these associations as I contemplate the effects of nutritarian eating. These effects are strong indications the nutritarian diet is based on truth. Truth supports life, and nutritarian eating promotes better health, longer life and more sure recovery.

It appears to me to be more effective than medications in both preventing and healing disease. But it also can be used as an adjunct to all medication, making them more effective. It therefore ought to be a first line defense of every family hoping to raise truly healthy children.

It should be the first thing anyone confronted with any illness should be taught and supported in. It should form the foundation of any and all medical treatment, as it supports and makes more certain all medication and medical technology is intended to accomplish.

The healing power of good nutrition is much more powerful than what is currently taught in medical schools.

The reality is, it’s all but ignored. This is, it appears to me, a direct result of the rat pack from the first paragraph.

Part of the lie is good nutrition is all about making a few changes to your diet. The reality is, our normal American diet, also called the Standard American Diet or SAD diet (for good reasons), is, literally, a killer.

Even a lot of changes, but keeping the same basic diet, does not make much difference.

Real healing and real prevention takes a total paradigm shift.

The nutritarian path is the most complete and well founded eating paradigm shift I’ve ever seen.

Here’s an example we experienced (in more detail).

In late 2007 my wife was diagnosed as firmly diabetic, referred to a local hospital diabetes education program, given a blood sugar monitor and told to prepare for a lifetime program certainly leading to insulin. Maybe, just maybe she wouldn’t die early, if she learned and followed the American Diabetes Association diet and recommendations.

This was bunk, a form of lies. Not deliberate lies, not lies from individual diabetes educators, doctors or the hospital, but major, culturally based, research reinforced, medically supported lies.

Those lies would have led to her death. Maybe not by now, but certainly over time, they would have shortened her life.

We attacked her diabetes, not with the full nutritarian plan, but with a few ideas based on The China Study, and a brief reference in the main Wikipedia article on diabetes. It told about a low-fat, vegan, low glycemic approach to dealing with diabetes, based on research by Dr Neal Barnard (we knew nothing about his books or anything else about him until later).

Three months later, her blood sugar was normal. When we told what she’d done, her doctor said, ”I’ve heard of people doing this but I’ve never actually seen it.”

A year after that, her doctor declared “You haven’t had any symptoms in over a year – I’m taking the diagnosis off your chart.”

We call her cured. Cured from a dread disease kills lots of people.
We were told it was incurable and always leads to insulin use. We were prepped to become steady consumers of diabetic testing supplies, insulin, the whole gamut of normal diabetes progression.

Instead, she was cured by nutritarian principles before we ever knew what they were.

A few years later, Larry H. Miller, a local multimillionaire business owner, died a miserable, hacked off (literally) early death from diabetes. He went through one amputation and hospitalization at a time though it was, perhaps mercifully, a relatively short time. He could afford any kind of treatment, any kind of advice, anything at all that would have made a difference.

He was never a nutritarian.

I didn’t know him personally, but it's unlikely he was ever given a real chance or medical advice to become one.

It can be, it really is, lies/death vs. life/truth.

And the reference in the Wikipedia article on diabetes to Dr. Barnard's research has been removed, by the way.