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.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Disease List, Part 1
Superior nutrition produces superior health.
It seems so obvious. And once you try it, it’s even more so.
But the total impact is not completely obvious, because when you try it, you try it, you experience it, you can tell the effects. And there are so many opinions on quality nutrition, it’s hard to sift the diamonds from all the dirt.
There’s lots of dirt. The nutritarian concept appears to me to be a diamond.
It’s still not enough to tell that it’ll be effective for someone else, on some other condition, in another set of circumstances.
That’s what makes Dr. Furman’s experience and books so valuable. He’s seen a wide range of conditions, over a number of years, backed up by lots of high quality research.
(Most people though wouldn’t know quality research from a hole in the ground. I’m not saying I’m any great expert here, but I’ve found people who do know the difference, and I try to listen and learn from them.)
Nutritarian style eating is best at preventing disease, but it’s effective at curing and reversing many diseases. Sometimes, though, a disease process has gone on too long, done too much damage to be reversed or cured. Even so, it can still be dealt with way, way more effectively than medications alone.
But other times even serious and long term conditions are reversed. Sometimes even nearly fatal conditions are stopped in their tracks and symptoms and effects vanish.
Here’s an alphabetical list of conditions that nutritarian eating prevents, cures or just helps with. Any list is going to be incomplete, and I’m betting that many more conditions will be added in time. Some are duplicates, same disease different name. And I know I’ve missed some that are probably obvious and well known.
Even so, the list is simply amazing. When it’s worth a comment I’ll pause with a separate paragraph:
Acne, including cystic acne. Allergies. Alzheimer's. Amputations related to diabetes.
Anti-centennarianism, or the tendency to not live to be a hundred years old, healthy, happy and active up until you die (OK, I made that one up, but it’s true).
Appendicitis. Artheromas (fatty deposits hiding in blood vessel walls). Artherosclerosis. Arthritis. Asthma.
Autism. If ever there was a complex and difficult issue, this is one. My NMD (Naturopathic Medical Doctor) friend Jerry Taylor cures this with superb nutrition as the foundation of treatment, as with everything he treats. Smart man.
Autoimmune diseases. Lots more to tell, there are so many related conditions listed here, the words are just the tip of an iceberg. But it applies so often it suggests there is an overall affect on potentially most, many or all of these.
Back pain.
Bacterial infections. A huge category, with fabulous research and amazing results, if you’re open to reading about them.
Beriberi. Birth defects. Blindness related to diabetes. Bone fractures.
Cancer. Wait till you see how the research correlates cures vs. deaths related to nutritarian eating!
Colds. Constipation. Cretinism. Crohn’s disease. Dementia. Depression.
Diabetes. The vast majority with type 2 diabetes are proven to be better off with a nutritarian lifestyle, and most have a complete reversal of symptoms, as we did. Even type 1 diabetes is impacted, with less insulin, far fewer negative consequences, and normal life spans.
Diverticulitis.
Epigenetic conditions, which are passed down to children, can result from environmental or external factors - like eating! Healthy or unhealthy, we pass it down to our children, especially through the mother. But it also appears that negative effects we receive from our parents can be reversed by reversing our own unhealthy habits.
And here I’ll pause, lest you faint, or fade into incredulity (a serious mental disease than can actually be caused as a counter-reaction to nutritarian learning, where you stop believing in truth because it conflicts with things your mother, your doctor, and even your culture, civilization and experience teaches you).
More next time in Part 2.
It seems so obvious. And once you try it, it’s even more so.
But the total impact is not completely obvious, because when you try it, you try it, you experience it, you can tell the effects. And there are so many opinions on quality nutrition, it’s hard to sift the diamonds from all the dirt.
There’s lots of dirt. The nutritarian concept appears to me to be a diamond.
It’s still not enough to tell that it’ll be effective for someone else, on some other condition, in another set of circumstances.
That’s what makes Dr. Furman’s experience and books so valuable. He’s seen a wide range of conditions, over a number of years, backed up by lots of high quality research.
(Most people though wouldn’t know quality research from a hole in the ground. I’m not saying I’m any great expert here, but I’ve found people who do know the difference, and I try to listen and learn from them.)
Nutritarian style eating is best at preventing disease, but it’s effective at curing and reversing many diseases. Sometimes, though, a disease process has gone on too long, done too much damage to be reversed or cured. Even so, it can still be dealt with way, way more effectively than medications alone.
But other times even serious and long term conditions are reversed. Sometimes even nearly fatal conditions are stopped in their tracks and symptoms and effects vanish.
Here’s an alphabetical list of conditions that nutritarian eating prevents, cures or just helps with. Any list is going to be incomplete, and I’m betting that many more conditions will be added in time. Some are duplicates, same disease different name. And I know I’ve missed some that are probably obvious and well known.
Even so, the list is simply amazing. When it’s worth a comment I’ll pause with a separate paragraph:
Acne, including cystic acne. Allergies. Alzheimer's. Amputations related to diabetes.
Anti-centennarianism, or the tendency to not live to be a hundred years old, healthy, happy and active up until you die (OK, I made that one up, but it’s true).
Appendicitis. Artheromas (fatty deposits hiding in blood vessel walls). Artherosclerosis. Arthritis. Asthma.
Autism. If ever there was a complex and difficult issue, this is one. My NMD (Naturopathic Medical Doctor) friend Jerry Taylor cures this with superb nutrition as the foundation of treatment, as with everything he treats. Smart man.
Autoimmune diseases. Lots more to tell, there are so many related conditions listed here, the words are just the tip of an iceberg. But it applies so often it suggests there is an overall affect on potentially most, many or all of these.
Back pain.
Bacterial infections. A huge category, with fabulous research and amazing results, if you’re open to reading about them.
Beriberi. Birth defects. Blindness related to diabetes. Bone fractures.
Cancer. Wait till you see how the research correlates cures vs. deaths related to nutritarian eating!
Colds. Constipation. Cretinism. Crohn’s disease. Dementia. Depression.
Diabetes. The vast majority with type 2 diabetes are proven to be better off with a nutritarian lifestyle, and most have a complete reversal of symptoms, as we did. Even type 1 diabetes is impacted, with less insulin, far fewer negative consequences, and normal life spans.
Diverticulitis.
Epigenetic conditions, which are passed down to children, can result from environmental or external factors - like eating! Healthy or unhealthy, we pass it down to our children, especially through the mother. But it also appears that negative effects we receive from our parents can be reversed by reversing our own unhealthy habits.
And here I’ll pause, lest you faint, or fade into incredulity (a serious mental disease than can actually be caused as a counter-reaction to nutritarian learning, where you stop believing in truth because it conflicts with things your mother, your doctor, and even your culture, civilization and experience teaches you).
More next time in Part 2.
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