30 DAYS TO FEEL AND LOOK BETTER

30 DAYS TO FEEL AND LOOK BETTER

"We don't need enemies.  We are our own.  The food processing industry creates the man-made, sugar-laden, diabetes-causing non-foods that set the stage for disease and suffering.  But they are not the cause of sickness and more than 24 million cases of diabetes.  We are-by buying and eating these obnoxious concoctions that the human digestive tract was never designed to digest."

                                                                                                     Health Alert, Vol. 27, No. 2

           

There are so many facts, ideas, theories, and so much hogwash when it comes to health and nutrition.  But there are two facts that are indisputable.  These are two facts that all contending parties in the health and nutrition world-physicians, nutritionists, alternative docs, biochemists, etc.-cannot disagree on.  They are:

Fact # 1: The people that eat the Western diet of highly processed, sugar-laden, chemically altered, non-foods suffer high rates of Western diseases of diabetes, heart and coronary artery disease, joint disease, osteoporosis, and cancer.  In fact, most degenerative diseases, which are responsible for eating up more than 80 % of our entire $2 trillion annual health bill, are caused by the Western diet.¹

In fact, virtually all of the type 2 diabetes and obesity is caused by this diet.  And eight out of ten people with heart and coronary artery disease have this diet as the root cause of their disease.  Finally, one of every three people with cancer can trace their cancer to this diet.² And these are just a few examples that are a testament to the indisputable fact #1.

Fact # 2: People that eat traditional diets generally do not suffer from these diseases.³ And it almost does not matter if the diet is high protein, high fat, or high carbohydrate.  What does matter is that traditional diets are comprised of real food, totally unlike the chemicalized, highly processed concoctions of the Western diet.

Fact # 3: (yes there is a third fact.) The Western diet is not really the cause of our disease and suffering.  Rather, we are-by choosing to eat this mash of chemicals while shunning real food.  However, the positive flip side of Fact # 3 brings us to Fact # 4.

Fact # 4: (Yes there is a fourth fact.) On the positive side, if you get off the Western diet, you will enjoy dramatic health improvements in a very short period of time.  Studies have shown that if you get off the Western diet for just 6 short months, you will enjoy an 80 % reduction in your risk of getting heart and/or coronary artery disease, a 90 % reduction in your risk of getting type 2 diabetes, a 70 % risk reduction in getting colon cancer,⁴ and on and on.

And what is the food, medical, media, and pharmaceutical industries' response to these amazing facts-facts that if acted on could balance the health care budget in a year?  They ignore them.  And why?  Because there is too much money to be made in selling highly processed foods, and then caring for and concocting drugs and medical treatments for all the people who do not know they can cure themselves.  Instead, we search for the "culprit" in our diet that causes our disease-be it trans-fats, or cholesterol, or red meat, or eggs, or butter, or whatever the topic of the month turns out to be.

Others try to promote the missing vitamin, amino acid, herb or other nutrient as the "culprit" causing our diseases.  The problem is that their solution almost always takes the form of yet another highly processed, chemicalized, and even industrialized substance that your body can barely digest and utilize.  These "vitamin supplements" labeled as "natural," and sold at hundreds of times their cost.

The other day I listened to a radio show that Sally Fallon from the Weston A. Price Foundation as a guest.  She was asked if she could condense all this into one sentence.  Sally didn't even hesitate before she said, "Eat like your great, great, grandmother."  And you can do the same.  I challenge you here and now to eat only real, whole foods for 6 months.  To catch up on the nutritional deficiencies caused by years of the Western diet use only supplements made from food.  These are the only ones that your body can fully utilize anyway.

I can guarantee that all your disease parameters will improve, and that you will need to have your prescriptions weaned or eliminated.  Once this is accomplished, your need for doctor visits will diminish and disappear.  And you will feel and look better that you have in years.

It's not complicated.  The indisputable facts are that we cause our own disease and suffering because food, medicine, and drugs are giant money-making industries.  And we can get off the food/medicine/pharmaceutical merry-go-round to enjoy major health improvements-quickly, easily and for free.

NOTES:

1Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food (New York, Penguin Press, 2008).

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.

Dr. Huntoon has a single mission:

To support as many people as possible in their quest for health and enable them to improve and maintain their health to the highest level possible, while educating them about the benefits of Chiropractic, Natural Healthcare and Holistic Living, so they in turn can teach others to support us having a healthy community.

Your Choice

• Continue doing the same thing and nothing changes or it may get worse

OR

• Try something different and get a different result that makes you happier and healthier.