Thanks!

Eh, I 100% agree that food matters. Food and exercising gives one energy to be more productive.

After reading your article I am left with the feeling that there is more to this topic than I originally thought.

I’m not trying to “convert” any body to vegetarianism; I just want to share my experiences.

The husband of my wife’s friend had a heart attack, at age 45 10 months ago: artery 100% clogged. Two weeks ago he had a second one: another artery 85% clogged. He eats a lot of greasy things and meat. He “was” a hockey player, robust and athletic man, until the first heart attack.

His wife, who is a nutrition specialist, with university degree, told my wife two days ago: “the only way to improve his condition is to become vegan”; no meat, no dairies, no eggs. She also said “the medications he is taking does not improve his condition, they just prevent it from happening again”. Obviously they didn’t work.

I believe that if a kind of diet clogs your arteries, it’s because our body is not prepared to take that kind of food. May be we are created to eat fruits, veggies, and nuts!!!

Cheers and good health to all!!!

I’m so sorry to hear that. I work in an Alternative Medicine cancer clinic, where we just administer heat to the patients’ tumors (Hyperthermia) with a very low dose of radiation (unfortunately; this is the way Hyperthermia is approved in the US). Very low or no side effects, and efficient treatment when combined with a GOOD diet.

I also heard many times about “The China Study”, a very revealing and mind opening book, from my friend JP Girardi, brainoptimization.com. For those who haven’t read “The China Study”, this is his summary about it:

Dr. T. Colin Campbell, PhD, was doing a study on how to help third world countries to promote better health by eating more meat, milk and eggs. He found out a correlation between the amount of animal protein consumed and cancer incidence. He saw that the more animal protein consumed, the more incidence of cancer (breast, colon, prostate, liver, etc.), cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, bone fracture, etc.

On his own words: “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored,” said Dr. Campbell.

Just Google “The China Study”

I think we are in the road to eradicate chronic diseases with postings like this Yaro!

Sharon, I will try your recipes as soon as I get home TODAY!!

I am into my third month and it has been really easy to stop eating meat and also dairy. You don’t have to eat Tofu to be a Vegan. Did you know that the best thing you can put in your body is Cantaloupe? Followed by Watermelon and then Honeydew. You have to wash the rind though and then put it through a juicer. I put the soft part in a blender and then juice the rind and add it to what’s in the blender and it is just fantastic. “The Juceman” says that if we eat only the soft part of melons, we are getting 5% of the nutrients available.

Yaro, I don’t know if you have Morningstar products or not but they are great tasting. Also, “fake mashed potatoes” are a great way to eat vegetables without the high calories of starchy spuds. You just steam Cauliflower until it’s soft and add some Smart Balance Butter (not really butter), salt and pepper and it is just great. Add some fresh corn on the cob and some Garden Burger “Ribletts” and man O man…what a meal.

Safe travels.
Sharon

Recently, I started walking every day (sometimes twice a day) and being very careful about my diet.

What a HUGE difference! Endorphins are a wonderful thing. I have so much more energy.

What really surprises me is how differently I feel mentally and emotionally. My mind is clearer, I’m more focused, more confident, and optimistic.

Now I feel like I can do anything I set my mind to.

Good health really is one of the keys to success in any area of life.

Cheers!

I was meat eater until I turned 19. Then, for healthy purposes, I gradually turned into vegetarian (one year period). I read of the benefits of avoiding meat, and that to digest it you have to have an intestinal-digestive track short, like lions and other carnivores. Short intestinal tracks can digest meat quickly, without having the meat become putrid, with the associated toxins incorporated to our systems. Our long intestines are designed to digest vegetables, fruits, nuts, etc., but not meat.

I am still alive and very well. I’ve been to doctors offices three times since then, in a period of 30 years: when I hurt my back lifting a heavy weight for a long period of time, for and inguinal surgery for the same reason, and for a knee surgery three weeks ago (ACL thorn ligament playing football, soccer in US, 30 years ago). This three visits to the docs happen in the last 8 years.

Without knowing, being vegetarian and raw foodist, my recovery is much faster than people with other diets, younger than me and much better fitted than me. Pain after my surgeries was so little, that I just took only one Vicodin (pain medication) after the first surgery, and three after the second one. I keep the two medication bottles as a souvenir, with 29 and 27 unused tablets.

I’m not bragging about it; I’m just telling you some of the benefits of being vegetarian.

It payed for it for me, and I am respectful of other peoples eating choices. Most people I know eat meat.

After 20+ years being vegetarian and eating tofu, we realized, by reading raw food books, that it may be something not so good with tofu. We stopped eating it, and all allergies, skin rush, and other minor problems were gone in my wife and children.

I’m so glad your brought this up!!

At least some people are waking up to it.

Congratulations for having the courage to post an article like this!!!

I agree with most comments, except that human intestine is too long to digest meat. Just study carnivores intestine and you will see they are very short, adapted to digest meat. I respect ALL kinds of eating ways, because I was meat eater too.

I just want to add something new to the comments:

I went to see an orthopedic surgeon about three months ago, because my right knee was giving me problems. He told me I look much younger than my ID tells (about 10 years younger); nothing to brag about it. What happens is that processed food, not natural, not organic, takes a big tall in our bodies, and makes it to decay faster because it takes much more energy to digest it. I’ve been vegetarian for 30 years, eating big (raw) salads and fruits every day, and some fasting to clean “the engine”, and I know this is the cause of “looking younger” than people my age.

A year and half ago, my wife found the Raw Food movement and diet, and we embrace it, little by little. I just had a knee surgery three weeks ago, ACL or ligament replacement. I kissed my crouches good by in two weeks; my doctor said I am recovering very well. I came back to work in about 10 days; I’m exercising every day, bicycle and swimming. Today I went to the gym, and two people younger than me could not believe I was back in the gym so quickly doing the stationary bike.

The answer is the food I eat; more than that, the food I DO NOT EAT. David Wolf, the guy with curly hair in the movie, is a big promoter of raw food. Just Google or You Tube his name.

Yaro, your post is just fantastic! Your 6 Tips to Reduce Stress are so true!

Cheers

My son was diagnosed with Nephrotic Syndrome (kidney failure, for the readers) at age 3, caused by excessive vaccinations. We live in the US, where parents are forced to vaccinate their babies. My son got TWENTY SIX vaccinations when he turned THREE!! INSANE!!
After 6 months of following the western medicine prescription, given by the BEST Pediatric Nephrologist in Los ANgeles, and not getting anywhere, we contact three homeopathic doctors, one in India, two in Argentina. By e-mail and phone conversations, we got the homeopathic medicines, totally inoffensive to the body, they restore the normal immune system functioning, and 9 months later my son was TOTALLY out of trouble. He is seven now.

About 160,000 people die in the US because of taking THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION given by the doctor…

If eating healthy organics foods is expensive, have you ever thought how much more expensive is being sick because of the “cheep” food we eat? I work a day job in a cancer clinic, in Los Angeles, CA, USA (I am an electronic engineer). Busy, noisy, and polluted city. The patients who get well are the ones who eat well, usually vegetarian vegan (no dairy, no eggs), think well and positive, exercise if possible, and have some kind of surrender. The patients that so far ALWAYS get cure, are the ones who include a great percentage of raw food on their diet. The guy with curly hair that start talking at 0:52 on “Food Matters”, and shows up at 1:07, is David Wolf. He is big in the US and world wide know, on the raw movement. Read about that, and you may find some inspiration and knowledge that was hidden by the government and pharmaceutical industry

There are a couple of reasons I want to become vegetarian.

Primarily I don’t want to cause harm to animals.

I’ve also seen a lot of research lately regarding the horrible things meat does to your body – especially red meat.

I believe we are evolving beyond the need to eat meat, but I haven’t yet been able to realize that outcome in my own life.

Why are you striving to become a vegetarian when mother nature created humans to eat meat (as well as plants)? Do you believe that she had a larger plan?

But I’m not talking produced meat from the major farms but meat from healthy and happy animals that has been eating what nature meant for them to eat.

Regards,
Mikael

As others here have stated, we seem to have forgotten what real food is in the processed food world that we live in today. I first became more aware of this issue a few years ago when I picked up the book Fit For Life by Harvey Diamond. What’s more, is becoming aware of which foods are not so good for the body, like dairy products which force the body to expend more energy in digestion. Our bodies were not meant to digest cow’s milk like a cow’s body is. That’s why cows have four stomachs and we have only one. Cutting out dairy products can be the beginning of a good start at a weightloss program. But most people aren’t aware of this.

Thom

This is such an important post for a lot of us who spend far too much time working and not enought time taking care of our body and our mind.

This is an MUST-READ for anyone who has an online business.

Thanks again Yaro!

Miss Gisele B.

Regards
Dan