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| Super-Foods By: Herbert M. Shelton "The modern Ponce de Leon’s search, not for a magic spring, the waters of which restore and prolong youth, but for foods that have this magic power. Foods now cure without the necessity of removing cause. Food is now the new magic- it is the mysterious compound that will do what we once expected drugs to do. We live on a diet of white flour products, "breakfast foods" that stick to your ribs, white sugar, pasteurized milk, embalmed flesh foods, cakes, pies, etc., and expect to render such diets adequate by "supplementing" them with wheat germ, molasses, honey, yogurt, skimmed milk, cider vinegar, etc." |
| Herbal Medicine: Phytotherapy By: Herbert M. Shelton "Herbal Medicine, here we have an ancient method of treating the sick that has as its sole claim to superior merit, the fact that it is less lethal in its effects than the virulent poisons employed by the modern physician. The herbalist or "natural therapist" looks upon "modern medicine" as a perversion and departure from what he likes to think of as the "natural cure". It is difficult to differentiate between the two superstitions. That a thing is natural does not mean that it has any normal relationship to the living organism. It does not belong in the human body merely because it is natural." |
| Herbs By: Herbert M. Shelton "Medical men long held that nature has provided remedies for disease, that there is a "law of cure." It has been said that somewhere in nature there is a cure for every disease, if only this can be found. Both in the medical profession and outside the medical profession the belief continues to be held that the vegetable kingdom, especially those portions of it that are laden with alkaloids and glycosides, contains cures for the diseases of man. Almost the whole of the Herbal practice consists in the employment, as medicines, of poisonous plants." |
| Principles of Proper Food Combining By: Herbert M. Shelton "As any student of chemistry will assure you, acids and bases (alkalis) neutralize each other. If you eat a starch with a protein, digestion is impaired or completely arrested. The undigested food mass can cause various kinds of digestive disorders. Undigested food becomes soil for bacteria, which ferment and decompose it. Its by-products are poisonous. The principles of food combining are dictated by digestive chemistry. Different foods are digested differently." |
| Food Combining: Mono Meals By: Virginia Vetrano "Green leafy vegetables are more abundant in alkaline minerals than fruits. They are an excellent source of calcium, iron and other valuable minerals. They are rich in vitamins and contain small amounts of protein of the highest quality and biological value. They are the richest source of chlorophyll, such as only green plants can provide. The less complex our food mixtures, and the simpler our meals, the more efficient will be our digestion, and the better our health." |
| The Rationale of Food Combining By: Dennis Nelson "The principles of food combining were first explained in the earlier part of the 20th century by Dr. John Tilden, M.D., author of "Toxemia Explained”. Their work was followed by that of Dr. Herbert Shelton and is continuing with the doctors and teachers of the Natural Hygiene movement. In relating this concept to nutrition, we should realize that the nourishment our body receives is dependent on what we can digest and assimilate." |
| Diet Reform vs Supplemental Feeding By: Herbert M. Shelton "For the most part, restoration, fortification and enrichment of foods is a farce. Back to natural eating, should be our rallying cry. Are we such fools that we are going on forever removing from natural foods essential nutritive factors and then replacing them with "Just as good" Synthetic substances? The real health foods do not come in bottles, boxes and capsules. They are grown in garden and orchard, are irradiated by the sun, rather than by an ultra-violet lamp, and are more suited to the nutritive needs of our bodies as they come, ready-made, from the lap of mother nature." |
| Cow's Milk By: Herbert M. Shelton "The food essential to healthy development and growth of every infant mammal, including human infants, is produced for it in its own mother's breasts. The milk of each species differs widely from that of every other, and each is especially fitted to meet the needs of the young of that species. Cows Milk is not the perfect food for either infant or adult. Milk, is a temporary expediency in the life of the young animal, lasting it until the time that it evolves teeth. Milk is not a good food for the non-suckling organism. After the normal nursing period has passed, milk may be profitably dropped from the child's diet." |
| Osteoporosis: Dairy Reconsidered By: Michael Klaper, M.D. "For people who dutifully drink milk and swallow cheese, ice cream and yogurt, believing that the magic of cow’s milk will ward off fractures in old age, be advised that there is very little evidence that dairy products prevent osteoporosis - in fact, just the opposite may be true. Cow's milk contains proteins and other substances that are thought to play a major role in many serious diseases, like asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, recurring ear infections, eczema, colitis, and various autoimmune diseases. To prevent or reverse osteoporosis we must consume nutrients from whole, plant-based foods, such as dark green leafy vegetables, root vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, and fruits." |
| Dairy: 6 Reasons You Should Avoid It At All Costs or Why Following The USDA Food Pyramid Guidelines Is Bad For Your Health By: Mark Hyman, M.D. "Dairy is nature's perfect food -- but only if you're a calf. Criticizing milk in America is like taking on motherhood, apple pie, or baseball. There's no evidence that dairy is good for your bones or prevents osteoporosis -- in fact, the animal protein it contains may help cause bone loss. In fact, according to the Nurses' Health Study dairy may increase risk of fractures by 50 percent. Less dairy, better bones. It is better for us to get calcium, potassium, protein, and fats from food sources, like whole plant foods -- vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds." |
| Eating & Cancer By: Herbert M. Shelton "Physicians customarily advise their patients to eat what agrees with them or to eat what they like. They commonly tell them not to worry about their diet. A short while ago I met a female physician who lived in and practiced in Ohio she was attending special classes in Columbia University. Our conversation turned to diet she said that she did not know anything about diet. Then she said: "My profession regards dietetics as quackery and I cannot afford to get the reputation of being a quack." Now the answer was out in the open: It is scientific to poison the sick; it is quackery to attempt to feed them correctly. So long as this is the accepted view of the profession, there is no hope that they will ever give intelligent attention to the subject of food and feeding." |
| Hypo-Alkalinity By: Herbert M. Shelton "Every food eaten leaves behind it an ash after it has been used by the body. The ash is either acid or alkaline. Eating too much acid-ash food, or eating it over long periods of time, results in storing acid-ash in the cells and in depleting the body of its alkaline reserve. Acid-ash foods are all meats, eggs, cheese, milk, cereals, legumes, nuts, and denatured foods of all kinds. The alkaline-ash foods are fruits, and all green vegetables. Fats and oils are classed as neutral foods. If our foods do not maintain normal alkalinity of the blood and tissues, disease develops." |
| Fruit: Best Food Of All By: William L. Esser "Many facts indicate that humans were originally frugivorous or fruit-eating animals, not omnivorous as we are presently. That humans have strayed from their natural diet for the past few thousand years does not mean that organs have changed so as to be suited to the prevailing diet. If any change has occurred, it is that we have become diseased creatures. Of all the foods that we can eat, fruits are the best in every respect. They are objects, which enchant the eye, delight the smell and thrill the normal taste beyond the sensation incited by any other food." |
| Diet, Not Genes, Controls Destiny By: John McDougall, M.D. "We are sick because Nature never intended for us to eat the foods we are eating today. Plant foods are the most abundant sources of nutrition on earth. Animal foods don't even come close in comparison. Only plants contain powerful substances called phytochemicals, which scientists are now discovering protects us from cancer, heart disease, and an array of other serious illnesses. All minerals are derived originally from the earth and make their way into the food supply via plants. Try The McDougall 12 Day All You Can Eat Diet Plan For Optimum Health." |
| The McDougall All You Can Eat 12-Day Menu Plan By: John McDougall, M.D. "The secret of the McDougall Program is in making starches the centerpiece of your diet and to this you add fruits and green and yellow vegetables. Below, I have provided you with a 12-day menu plan with recipes. You do not have to follow it exactly. When you find favorite meals, feel free to repeat them over and over again. To make these meals taste great add your favorite sauces, seasonings, and dressings, adjust the spicing to your liking." |
| When Friends Ask: Where Do You Get Your Protein? By: John McDougall, M.D. "Our public policy makers and educators remain ignorant about our nutritional needs. Misinformation leads to disastrous outcomes. People have serious health problems like heart disease, type-2 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory arthritis that can be easily resolved by a diet based solely on plant foods. The recent popularity of high protein diets has further popularized the fallacy that more protein is good for you. True, high protein diets, like Atkins, will make you sick enough to lose your appetite and temporarily lose weight, but this fact should not be extrapolated to mean high protein is healthy—in fact, the opposite is true." |
| The Starch Solution By: John McDougall, M.D. "The proper diet for human beings is based on starches. Men and women following diets based on grains, vegetables, and fruits have accomplished all of the great feats in history. All animal foods, including beef, chicken, fish, shellfish, eggs, milk, and cheese, contain no starch at all. While easily providing the abundance of calories needed for winning marathons, starches do not promote excess weight gain. Starch as our food source must no longer be vilified. Meat, poultry, fish, and dairy can no longer be exalted." |
| Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease By: Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr, M.D. Mark Sutton Interviews The Author: "When we eat the Traditional Western Diet, those foods: the meat, cheese, butter, eggs, beef, thick oils, somehow marinate our delicate cellular structures, and that marinating process ends up with enough injury and multiple hits to our cellular structure that over the decades, those accumulated hits become what we as physicians will now declare a disease." "Dr. Esselstyn's research is incredibly important. A ground breaking book that really nails heart disease, pulls no punches, and provides some wonderful vegan recipes as a guide for eating heart safe." |
| Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease By: Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. M.D Kathy Freston Interviews Author Dr. Esselstyn: "Coronary heart disease is the leading killer of women and men in western civilization. It is predicted to become the #1 global disease burden by 2020." Kathy Freston: “What is the cause of the disease?” Dr. Esselstyn: "It is the typical western diet of processed oils, dairy products, and meat including chicken and fish that injures the endothelial cells. Endothelial cells manufacture a magical protective molecule of gas called nitric oxide, which protects our blood vessels. When people learn to eat a plant based diet to eliminate heart disease it could inaugurate a seismic revolution in health." |
| Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease By: Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., M.D Book Review By: Clarence Bass "Dr. Esselstyn's diet rules are simple—and strict: All vegetables, fruit, whole grains, beans and lentils are allowed; but no meat, chicken, fish, eggs, refined grains, dairy products (even skim milk), oil, nuts or avocados. Although his diet sounds—and is—Spartan, Dr. Esselstyn’s meal suggestions are more satisfying—rabbit food it’s not. The patients in the study had advanced heart disease. They were referred to Dr. Esselstyn as a last resort. He sat down with each patient for as long as necessary and explained the benefits of plant-based nutrition. Twenty years later, most of them are still alive. Dr. Esselstyn goes over the history of each patient in his book. You can see the improved blood flow, in some cases after only 3 weeks. The results are indeed stunning." |
| Olympic Reflections 50 Years Later By: Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., M.D "For some athletes an Olympic Gold Medal is the pinnacle of their life. I viewed it as a springboard. The experience provided the utmost in confidence, belief in one’s self, the rewards of total effort, personal courage, and most importantly persistence. It is difficult to evaluate the degree to which the Olympic Experience contributed, but I am certain about one area of my life where it has always impacted and continues to do so. That is my research. By the early 1980’s I was increasingly disillusioned with the focus of the medical profession. Cardiovascular disease, which is the leading killer of men and women, can be eliminated through plant-based nutrition. You would think with this discovery there would be dancing in the streets. The drug industry loves heart disease. The statin drugs are a 20 billion dollar annual market." |
| The Case For Fake Meat By: Kathy Freston "Here's why I unabashedly promoted faux meat for Oprah's 378 staffers who went vegan for a week: It's much better for human health, exponentially better for our environment, and infinitely better for animals. When I led Oprah and her Harpo staffers through a 7-day vegan challenge recently, my approach was to take their current lifestyle and eating habits into account, and ease them into eating vegan by showing how easy it is to swap out fattening, high-cholesterol animal products for vegan versions of their traditional favorite foods. Moving toward a way of eating that is kind to our bodies, the earth, and animals is about progress, not perfection. It's about leaning into it by making smarter everyday choices." |
| Vegan Fitness Kathleen Roberts From: LoveToKnow.com Interviews: Vegan Athlete: Jeff Sekerak "Vegan fitness is often the subject of debate. Typically, those who consume an omnivorous diet feel that vegan diets do not provide all the necessary nutrients and are less than optimal. To prove this belief is flawed, author and vegan fitness expert Jeff Sekerak recently completed a walk through Death Valley National Park to prove his superior fitness on a completely vegan diet." "I'm a raw vegan a fruitarian--and in the best shape of my entire life due to my current exercise protocol. Plant-based diets supply every nutrient the human body needs. Animal products such as cooked meat lead to many forms of degenerative diseases including cancer and heart disease." |
| Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. vs The Dr. Atkins Diet "Those on the Atkins Diet had rapid advancement of their heart disease with a decrease in blood flow in the heart's blood vessels of 40%. Those sticking to the whole-foods vegetarian diet showed a reversal of their heart disease as expected. Thus, the only study on the Atkins Diet to actually measure arterial blood flow showed this style of eating is exceedingly dangerous. In my practice, I have hundreds of patients who had reversed their heart disease that they developed while on the American diet or on the Atkins diet, dropped their cholesterol over a hundred points, without drugs, and are living proof that nutritional excellence, not drugs is the therapy of choice. People will jump on a bandwagon of pseudo-scientific claims supporting their preferred food habits and addictions." |
| Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. Reviews: The New Government Food Pyramid Now Called: MyPlate "Half a plate full of meat and grains, plus a serving of dairy at each meal does not leave enough room in the diet for high nutrient foods like vegetables and beans. Animal products and processed foods are still the major source of calories. All “proteins” are certainly not created equal. It is important to differentiate – to depict meat and other animal products as disease-promoting foods because they raise cancer risk, and greens, beans, nuts and seeds as health-promoting foods because they decrease cancer risk. Nuts, seeds and beans, critical foods for excellent health, are not even present on this plate. The inclusion of Dairy in MyPlate perpetuates the misinformation that cows’ milk is essential to human health." |
| John Robbins vs Anti-Vegetarian Group: Weston A. Price Foundation "Weston Price was an American dentist who traveled around the world, camera and film in hand, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. An entire chapter in my latest book, "Healthy At 100" is devoted to his work. Price specifically sought out native peoples who were still eating their native foods. He asked about their dietary habits, then examined and took photographs of their teeth. Price found that those people who were still eating their native diets had very few if any dental caries and appeared to be in radiant health, while their counterparts who were now eating refined and processed foods from the West were exhibiting massive tooth decay and a growing cascade of illness and dysfunction. Some of the most zealous of his followers now run an organization called the Weston A. Price Foundation. Sally Fallon, the foundation's president, denounces vegetarianism." |
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| Kathy Freston |
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| Yale's 1956 Olympic Gold Medal Rowing Team |
| Fake Meat Sandwiches |
| Vegan Athlete Hikes Through Death Valley To Prove Fitness |
| Sally Fallon Morell President: Weston Price Foundation Inaccurately Claims: "Meat plus Dairy is an excellent combination, cholesterol is your best friend" |
