Do something good for someone else other than yourself. It'll make you feel good and all these good feelings contribute to health. - Annette Larkins
We don't have to have all of that protein that we've been alleged to believe that we have, and we do not have to get it from animals. We get it from our vegetable sources. - Annette Larkins
Once you understand that there is a simple solution to most of our problems, you realize that that one simple solution is the solution virtually all our problems
You have to understand the cause of disease to really understand what the healthiest diet in the world is.
You have to understand that when you put things inside that don't belong there, our body has a feedback system that lets us know.
Our general immunity alone is capable of defending itself against any attack, every cell has the power to do that.
You see, our biggest problem is that we lack the wisdom to know the difference between a problem that is 100% within our control and a problem that is not 100% within our control, and the reason we lack the wisdom is because our so-called medical experts lack the wisdom.
Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.
Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.
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.
Much of my early career was spent working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever discovered, dioxin and aflatoxin. I initially worked at MIT, where I was assigned a chicken feed puzzle. Millions of chicks a year were dying from an unknown toxic chemical in their feed, and I had the responsibility of isolating and determining the structure of this chemical. After two and a half years, I helped discover dioxin, arguably the most toxic chemical ever found. This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or Agent Orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War.
We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.
What made this project especially remarkable is that, among the many associations that are relevant to diet and disease, so many pointed to the same finding: 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. These results could not be ignored. From the initial experimental animal studies on animal protein effects to this massive human study on dietary patterns, the findings proved to be consistent. The health implications of consuming either animal or plant-based nutrients were remarkably different.
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure 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.
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.
Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care.
The process of eating is perhaps the most intimate encounter we have with our world; it is a process in which what we eat becomes part of our body.
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