The Disease List, Part 2

To continue an amazing list, let me start of by admitting, this can be hard to swallow.

Errors in the truth arena abound, after all. Every multi-level marketing guru of the latest health fraud will tell you, their product is a cure for most everything.

Maybe some are. But not most (take that, Noni International).

Sorry, it’s wrong of me to pick on something so specific, too harshly. There’s so many targets, and off-target good intentions, out there after all.

I count regular medicine as among those. I’d hardly call it a fraud. Well, maybe just the pharmaceutical industry part of it. Or maybe most spine surgeries. Or maybe. . . .

Sorry, off track again. Later.

So here goes:

Flu. Fractures in general.

Gastric bypass. If ever there was a clear case of standard American diet combined with standard medical approach vs. health, and a mistaken assumption that a temporary fix is the cure, this is it!

Hashimoto’s disease. Heart disease. Hepatitis C. High blood pressure. High Cholesterol/triglycerides. Hip fractures. Hormonal abnormalities, especially relating to young women and maturation. Hypertension. Hypothyroidism. IBS (irritable bowel syndrome).

Inflammatory processes. This is another deep, deep subject, affecting so many things that it’s really hard to describe briefly. Another tip of the iceberg.

Kidney stones. Lupus. Meningitis. Migraines. Non-cancerous tumors.

Obesity. Yet another huge topic, with so many implications and relationships to other conditions, affecting so many, yet so few people beat this. The fact that nutritarian eating is so universally effective in this regard is a key to many of the other conditions it can impact.

Osteoporosis. Pellegra. PMS. Pneumonia.

Prescription drug poisoning. Ok-Ok, I’m in trouble here consistency-wise. This is not a disease, but a principle related to health. All prescription drugs are poisons with a purpose, they all have risks, that’s why it takes a prescription to get them. All of them cause something negative, and the chances of negative effects and disease increases with the standard American diet. Just one well-researched example: A blood pressure medication causes multiple-site cancers, and is notorious for being related to lung cancer in non-smokers. You may not have heard that from your doctor! And the amazing thing is, you don’t even have to be exposed to that risk, with nutritarian eating (because high blood pressure just goes away).

Renal failure. Renal insuffiency. Rheumatoid arthritis. Rickets. Scurvy. Skin diseases. Strokes. Thrombosis. TIA’s (mini-strokes).

Ulcerative colitis. Very personal to me. Our son died of complications from UC, without ever being given a chance to hear about this. We asked every doctor we could find if there wasn’t something more we could do, something related to eating, it seems so obvious. We’re talking about where all food residues pass. "No relationship," we were told, time and time again. We had no idea we were dealing with a medical “blind spot,” that made it so almost no gastroenterologist who hoped to stay in practice would ever admit or even read about food-related correlations and cures. A few great ones who understand otherwise are around, we’ve since found. This and more makes us hyper-receptive to the nutritarian message. And eager to share.

Uterine fibroids.

Viral infections. Another huge category, with amazing correlations.

Weight gain. According to Dr. Furman, 85% of Americans are overweight, and too many of the rest are only that way because they're sick. Our normal or average weight is way skewed against optimal health. This one factor alone is perhaps the best indicator of the potential for better health through nutritarian eating.

As doctor Fuhrman says in Eat to Live*, how can this not catch on?

But this is not a panacea (a principle that cures everything). Not quite. But it's a start.

I’ll talk about the only real panacea in my other blog, AMormonNutritarian.blogspot.com.

*Note that some of this material is only touched on briefly or not even mentioned in Eat to Live. I also got insights from Dr. Fuhrman’s more recent books.