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August 14 - September 3, 2016
The inescapable fact is that certain people are making an awful lot of money today selling foods that are unhealthy. They want you to keep eating the foods they sell, even though doing so makes you fat, depletes your vitality and shortens and degrades your life. They want you docile, compliant and ignorant. They do not want you informed, active and passionately alive, and they are quite willing to spend billions of dollars annually to accomplish their goals.
This project surveyed a vast range of diseases and diet and lifestyle factors in rural China and, more recently, in Taiwan. More commonly known as the China Study, this project eventually produced more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease!
people who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.
research shows that various cancers, autoimmune diseases, bone health, kidney health, vision and brain disorders in old age (like cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer’s) are convincingly influenced by diet.
My father, who had stood with my siblings and me for so many days in the quiet countryside, teaching us the things that I still hold dear in life, was gone.
I now know that food primarily determines the outcome.
If you are male in this country, the American Cancer Society says that you have a 47% chance of getting cancer.
The rates at which we die from cancer are among the highest in the world, and it has been getting worse
Adopting a healthy diet and lifestyle can prevent the majority of cancers in the United States. Old age can and should be graceful and peaceful.
One out of thirteen Americans now has diabetes, and that ratio continues to rise.
Two of the most frightening statistics show that diabetes among people in their thirties has increased 70% in less than ten years and the percentage of obese people has nearly doubled in the past thirty years.
Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care
The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It’s as simple as that.
Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.”
We now know that through enormously complex metabolic systems, the human body can derive all the essential amino acids from the natural variety of plant proteins that we encounter every day.
Smoking has never been “100%” proven to cause lung cancer, but the odds that smoking is unrelated to lung cancer are so astronomically low that the matter has long been considered settled.
It is the time required for the chemical carcinogen to be consumed, absorbed into the blood, transported into cells, changed into its active product, bonded to DNA and passed on to the daughter cells. When the new daughter cells are formed, the process is complete. These daughter cells and all their progeny will forever be genetically damaged, giving rise to the potential for cancer. Except in rare instances, completion of the initiation phase is considered irreversible.
newly formed cancer-prone cells are ready to grow and multiply until they become a visibly detectable cancer. This stage occurs over a far longer period of time than initiation, often many years for humans. It is when the newly initiated cluster multiplies and grows into larger and larger masses and a clinically visible tumor is formed.
Promotion is reversible, depending on whether the early cancer growth is given the right conditions in which to grow.
Cancer growth flourishes when there are more promoters than anti-promoters; when anti-promoters prevail cancer growth slows or stops. It is a push-pull process. The profound importance of this reversibility cannot be overemphasized.
a developing cancer tumor may wander away from its initial site in the body and invade neighboring or distant tissues. When the cancer takes on these deadly properties, it is considered malignant. When it actually breaks away from its initial home and wanders, it is metastasizing. This final stage of cancer results in death.
From our extensive research, one idea seemed to be clear: lower protein intake dramatically decreased tumor initiation.
Foci development was almost entirely dependent on how much protein was consumed, regardless of how much aflatoxin was consumed!
Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.
It suggests that if we are exposed in the past to a carcinogen that initiates a bit of cancer that remains dormant, this cancer can still be “reawakened” by bad nutrition some time later.
when the animals met and surpassed their requirement for protein, disease onset began.
In these experiments, plant protein did not promote cancer growth, even at the higher levels of intake.
Rats generally live for about two years, thus the study was 100 weeks in length. All animals that were administered aflatoxin and fed the regular 20% levels of casein either were dead or near death from liver tumors at 100 weeks.36, 43 All animals administered the same level of aflatoxin but fed the low 5% protein diet were alive, active and thrifty, with sleek hair coats at 100 weeks.
results of these, and many other studies, showed nutrition to be far more important in controlling cancer promotion than the dose of the initiating carcinogen.
nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.
The authors of a major review on diet and cancer, prepared for the U.S. Congress in 1981, estimated that genetics only determines about 2-3% of the total cancer risk
Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.
As blood cholesterol levels decreased from 170 mg/dL to 90 mg/dL, cancers of the liver,II rectum,I colon,II male lung,I female lung, breast, childhood leukemia, adult leukemia,I childhood brain, adult brain,I stomach and esophagus (throat) decreased.
His findings showed a very impressive relationship between dietary fat and breast cancer
These studies showed that people who migrated from one area to another and who started eating the typical diet of their new residency assumed the disease risk of the area to which they moved.
the solution seems obvious: if we eat less fat, then we’ll lower our breast cancer risk.
Twenty-five women in each of the 130 villages in the survey were asked when they had their first menstrual period. The range of village averages was fifteen to nineteen years, with an average of seventeen years. The U.S. average is roughly eleven years!
In this case, multiple observations, tightly networked into a web, show that animal-based foods are strongly linked to breast cancer.
If we don’t consume enough fiber, we are susceptible to constipation-based diseases. According to Burkitt, these include large bowel cancer, diverticulosis, hemorrhoids and varicose veins.
The message could not be simpler: eat as many whole fruits, vegetables and whole grains as you can, and you will probably derive all of the benefits noted above as well as many others.
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure57 became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.
Fruits, vegetables and whole grains are the healthiest foods you can consume, and they are primarily made of carbohydrates.
This means that individuals can achieve their genetic potential for growth and body size by consuming a plant-based diet.
The finding: casein, and very likely all animal proteins, may be the most relevant cancer-causing substances that we consume.
Almost all of us in the United States will die of diseases of affluence.
Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
The evidence now amassed from researchers around the world shows that the same diet that is good for the prevention of cancer is also good for the prevention of heart disease, as well as obesity, diabetes, cataracts, macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s, cognitive dysfunction, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases.
Women’s death rate from heart disease is eight times higher than their death rate from breast
we are drowning in an ocean of very bad information, too much of it intended to put money into someone else’s pockets.
People in these studies who are vegetarian or vegan are anywhere from five to thirty pounds slimmer than their fellow
