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SCIENCE & HEALTH

'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food'

Hippocrates, father of modern medicine    

http://www.pcrm.org/ 6,000 Physicians for responsible medicine organization


"The leading causes of death in the Western world—heart disease, cancer, and stroke—can often be prevented and even treated—with proper dietary and lifestyle changes. Explore nutrition’s role in combating specific illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, cancer, high cholesterol levels, diabetes, endometriosis, foodborne illness, heart disease, high blood pressure, mad cow disease, migraines, Parkinson's disease, prostate problems, premenstrual pain and PMS, and stroke by following a vegan diet." ~ Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicinehttp://www.pcrm.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQNNX2Oo7Kk Processed People - Promo trailer #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGrmA8iylds Joel Fuhrman MD: Nearly Everyone Gets Cancer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3QWtoGQ14&feature=relmfu Dr. Jay Gordon: No one needs meat for health

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XIMotCQ1MY Joel Fuhrman MD: Curing with the vegan diet


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yngT60R4GqM&feature=related Alanis Morissette's Weight Loss Success with "Eat To Live" by Dr. Fuhrman


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkt_X-dUvEE&feature=related Joel Fuhrman, MD w/ Mehmet Oz, M.D. - health / weightloss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Vv0pWiWp0 Dr Oz forks over knives


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsT-qYeqGM&feature=related Cornell University professor T. Colin Campbell Phd: Animal Protein -- Meat and Dairy -- Cause Cancer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CncI5j5QzVg&feature=related The China Study

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Jj0B6JrN0&feature=related The China Study 02 of 14 ( Vegan Vegetarian Health Benefits / Lose Weight )

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/01/qa-with-t-colin-campbell-pdd-author-of-the-china-study.html Q&A with T. Colin Campbell PdD, Author of The China Study


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGrmA8iylds Joel Fuhrman MD: Nearly Everyone Gets Cancer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3QWtoGQ14&feature=relmfu Dr. Jay Gordon: No one needs meat for health


http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/the_effect_of_animal_fatson_the_human_body.html The effects of animal fats on the human body

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1309342/JANET-STREET-PORTER-Yes-junk-food-addictive--meats-deadliest-drug.html MEAT is the deadliest drug


http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/02/john-robbins-why-the-corporations-own-your-belly-video.html John Robbins: Why the corporations own your belly (VIDEO)



http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/02/john-mcdougall-video-pills-wont-save-you.html DR. John McDougall VIDEO: Pills Won't Save You


WELLNESS FORUM for HEALTH professionals
http://www.vegsource.com/pam-popper-phd/good-news-for-plant-based-health-professionals.html

http://www.wellnessforuminstitute.org/

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/02/which-veg-doctor-is-right----and-why-you-shouldnt-care.html WHICH VEG MD is right?

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/03/chickens-are-capable-of-feeling-empathy-scientists-believe.html Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe - Vegsource.com


50+YEARS VEG PEOPLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsGXuyYgv8&feature=related 72 Year-Old Man Raw Vegan Body Building Every Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdeC3OJJIzA&feature=related Mimi Kirk -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzz2E1F1mmY&feature=related Mimi Kirk on "The Doctors"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWHfeNMlJA&feature=related Russian Scientists Test Raw Foodist Markus Rothkranz

• its hard to sift through the propaganda. Meat industry is LARGE and run by only a few families really. They will do anything to protect their "golden goose"
(famous bodybuilder quotation)



VEG RAW BABIEShttp://www.thebestofrawfood.com/raw-food-diet-pregnancy.html RAW FOOD PREGNANCIES


http://www.living-foods.com/articles/rawpregnancy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orHKcx1icGU&feature=related Women Go Raw - Raw, Vegan Pregnancy

http://www.therawdivas.com/sunsational/index.html RAW food for your baby


http://www.peta.org/features/adorable-vegan-babies-photos.aspx?c=weekly_enews Adorable Vegan Babies (Photos) PETA.org


Say Goodbye to Diabetes and CANCER with Plant-based Diet (VIDEO)
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/09/jacquie-says-goodbye-to-diabetes-with-plant-based-diet-video.html

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/09/cnn-interviews-caldwell-esselstyn-md-dean-ornish-md-about-bill-clintons-plant-based-diet.html Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. MD & Dean Ornish MD Explain Bill Clinton's Diet to CNN

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/08/sanjay-gupta-promotes-dr-essesltyns-diet-in-cnn-promo-video.html Sanjay Gupta promotes Dr. Essesltyn's Diet in CNN Promo (VIDEO)

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/03/joel-furman-md----cancer-prevention-diet-video.html Joel Furman MD -- Cancer prevention diet (VIDEO)


Bill Clinton's Vegan Diet: CNN Last Heart Attack, Sanjay Gupta, M.D. (Video)
http://www.skinnybliss.com/bill-clintons-vegan-diet-cnn-last-heart-attack-sanjay-gupta-m-d-video.html

McDougall Newsletter: November 2011 - Why Did Steve Jobs Die?
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2011nl/nov/jobs.htm

Eating Meat Kills More People Than Previously Thought
http://www.naturalnews.com/025957_meat_eating_cancer.html

Former Buffalo Bill Battles Heart Disease wgrz.com
Adam Lingner, former Buffalo Bill player from 1987 until his retirement in 1995, had been diagnosed with a clogged artery putting him at risk of a heart attack. Following his stent procedure, Lingner decided to keep his arteries clean by following the plant-based diet recommended by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. To read the article and watch the video please visit
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/141957/37/Former-Buffalo-Bill-Battles-Heart-Disease

Veggies, Fruits, & Whole Grains Cut Stroke Risk - MFA Blog
http://www.mfablog.org/2011/12/veggies-fruits-whole-grains-cut-stroke-risk.html

How many vegan adults are in the US?
http://www.vrg.org/blog/2011/12/05/how-many-adults-are-vegan-in-the-u-s /

 

'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food'

Hippocrates, father of modern medicine    

http://www.medicalassistantdegree.com/resources/medical-history-hippocrates-the-father-of-medicine/

 He also taught that the body was self-healing and would cure itself. The best medicine was therefore comforting, that of reducing pain and suffering and nothing more.

 He was ahead of his time in the ability to understand the need for a cheerful environment. (HOSPITALS are FAR from cheerful)  Realizing that a happy patient healed much faster then one who was unhappy. He encouraged those learning from him to put everything into their work, to be diligent and honorable in all they did. This philosophy led to what is called the ‘Hippocratic Oath’, which is still practiced by many of today’s doctors in varied forms. Although its origins are debated, Hippocrates is given credit for it. It is an ethical oath that states a requirement by any new physician to uphold ethical standards in the profession and was originally to swear on the gods of healing to do so. Do no harm was the overall motto and most doctors still abide by that today. (unknowingly, even the good doctors are causing suffering due to the way how the system works/overmedication, lack of nutritional advice and not mentioning about what Hippocrates said: "that the body was self-healing and would cure itself."

This Week’s Video

Justice, a remarkable nine-year-old vegan from birth, talks about his life and his relationship with animals and food. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdXbwFO3LT8

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2011/12/rockin-with-rip-esselstyn-at-the-expo-video.html

ROCKIN’ with the VEGAN firefighter, son of famous DR. ESSELSTYN

Secrets To Preventing Osteoporosis

http://www.veghealth.com/audio/27osteoporisis886.php

Foods you eat now that are aging you.

http://www.veghealth.com/audio/16foodsthatageyou399.php

What's the Healthiest Diet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxVfi632Xw

http://drmcdougall.com/health_3_day_program.html

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2012/01/dietitian-jeff-novick-recalls-the-first-time-he-met-dr-mcdougall.html

Why Medical Professionals - Doctors - Prescribe The Vegan Diet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNxyEZ1Uh2M&feature=related

http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=red+meat+death+study&qs=n&form=MSNED1

Vegetarians Were Right All Along

Earlier this month, a study published in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine, indicated that implanting stents to stretch open cholesterol-clogged arteries in people with stable coronary artery disease was useless or worse. Seemingly, the most effective way to prevent and reverse this clogging is diet. Dr. William Roberts, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Cardiology said, “For the build-up of plaque in our arteries to cease, it appears that the serum total cholesterol needs to be lowered to the 150 area. In other words the serum total cholesterol must be lowered to that of the average pure vegetarian. Because relatively few persons are willing to abide by the vegetarian lifestyle, lipid-lowering drugs are required in most to reach the 150 level.” Please visit Stent or Prevent? Ending Heart Disease

A plant-based diet has been found to prevent and reverse most of the chronic diseases that plague our society.  Still, most people are willing to subject themselves to the side-effects of drugs instead of changing their diet. We must remember that being good stewards of our bodies, temples of the Holy Spirit, means to treat our bodies with respect and reverence. A plant-based diet helps us do exactly that.

red meat deadly

http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=red+meat+death+study&qs=n&form=MSNED1

Dairy Products Do Not Promote Bone Health

http://pcrm.convio.net/site/MessageViewer?em_id=59621.0&dlv_id=62361

 Effects Of Animal Fats On The Human Body! Is Meat Necessary? Part 1 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDwq_DyiTM

          via Don Robertson
"Eat Right for Your Type...contains just enough scientific sounding nonsense... to actually seem convincing to the uninitiated...D'Adamo has pieced together the outrageous hypothesis that blood type determines which foods an individual should or should not eat...Browsing through what at first glance appears to be a fairly impressive list of references, we found none that seem to support a connection between diet and blood type...He could just as easily have chosen to link food with eye color – and have been no further off target..."
- Frederick J. Stare, MD, Founder and former Chairman of Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health

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Norman Scrimshaw Dr Michael Klaper has a good article on Dr Adamo's diet as well as "The Zone" diet which exposes the bad science in both of them. http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/diet5.htm
It's crazy how people will read one book and choose to make it their dietary bible.

Eat Right For Your Type Diet Debunked Peter D'Adamo blood type diet review bogus safety Peter D'Ada

http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/diet5.htm

Another great resource on a popular diet myth comes from Dr Greger. He generously offers a whole book online debunking Dr Atkins. For a paperback version of his book order "Carbophobia" from this website. Love the Title. http://www.atkinsexposed.org/atkins/1/Atkins.htm

Atkins Facts - Atkins "Nightmare" Diet

www.atkinsexposed.org

MEAT and CANCER

http://www.cancerproject.org/survival/cancer_facts/meat.php

DAIRY and CANCER

http://www.cancerproject.org/ask/dairy.php

http://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/20-experts-on-the-dairy-%E2%80%94-breast-cancer-connection/

Do Hidden Opiates In Our Food Explain Food Addictions?

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/244981-Do-Hidden-Opiates-In-Our-Food-Explain-Food-Addictions

"No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein." - T. Colin Campbell, PhD - Dr. Campbell, nutritional biochemist from Cornell University, was lead scientist in the China Health Study, the most comprehensive large research project ever completed on the relationship between diet and disease. Dr. Campbell sees cow milk proteins as especially troublesome. http://www.tcolincampbell.org/

We consume twice as much protein as we need when we eat a meat-based diet, and this contributes to osteoporosis and kidney stones. Animal protein raises the acid level in our blood, causing calcium to be excreted from the bones to restore t...he blood's natural pH balance. This calcium depletion leads to osteoporosis, and the excreted calcium ends up in the kidneys, where it can form kidney stones or even trigger kidney disease.

Consuming animal protein has also been linked to cancer of the colon, breast, prostate, and pancreas. According to Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the director of the Cornell-China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health, and the Environment, "In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered."

Eating meat can also have negative consequences for stamina and sexual potency. One Danish study indicated that "Men peddling on a stationary bicycle until muscle failure lasted an average of 114 minutes on a mixed meat and vegetable diet, 57 minutes on a high-meat diet, and a whopping 167 minutes on a strict Vegan diet." Besides having increased physical endurance, Vegan men are also less likely to suffer from impotence.

Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar -- Physically Addictive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VWi6dXCT7I&feature=share

Expected Results of Vegan Diet – Dr. John Mc Dougall [VIDEO]

http://thecoolvegetarian.com/blog/2012/05/expected-results-of-vegan-diet-dr-john-mc-dougall-video/

"There is virtually no evidence that drinking two or three glasses of milk a day reduces the chances of breaking a bone." - Walter C. Willet, MD - Chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health.

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The central message of this extraordinary book is to consume whole foods in the context of a plant-based diet. You will greatly decrease the likelihood that you will die prematurely from the "diseases of affluence" that ravage our society, including cancer, heart failure, obesity and diabetes.

This is a diet lifestyle that makes eminent sense and is in accord with what we may surmise was the natural diet of our ancestors in the prehistory before the rise of agriculture and animal husbandry. Campbell shows through intensive and wide-ranging studies, in particular through evidence from the "China Study: the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted," that it is a diet that will prevent and even reverse disease.

Campbell is no pie-in-the-sky visionary or nutritional quack with a bogus agenda, nor is he an animal rights activist trying to find justification for his concerns. He is a bonafide mainstream scientist with forty years of experience who is currently Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. Furthermore, he grew up on a farm, and prior to his learning about the effect diet can have on human health, he ate a more or less traditional American diet heavy on the meat, milk, fat, refined sugars and starches.

I have been reading books on nutrition and diet for decades. I have seen food fads come and go, and I have seen the rise of the supersize in which McDonald's and other large corporations have seduced the many cultures into eating not only foods that are bad for them, but lured them into eating (and drinking) them in large quantities. As a result Americans for example, have become among the fattest people on the planet with something like two-thirds of the population overweight and one-third obese. Part of this is due to lack of exercise, but a significant part is due to eating too much. But Campbell believes that it isn't just how much we are eating, it is what we are eating. He maintains that eating exclusively from a whole foods, plant-based diet and maintaining an otherwise healthy lifestyle, we can eat as much as we like and not only keep trim but avoid the terrible diseases of affluence that haunt our society.

What is different about Campbell's book is first the enormous amount of scientific evidence he presents, and second the idea that eating not just fats and overly processed foods is bad for you, but that eating too much protein, especially animal protein, is correlated with the scourges of diabetes, cancer and heart failure. Animal protein consumption in conjunction with various carcinogens in the environment causes cancer, to put it bluntly, is his message. This surprising finding is supported by Campbell's discovery that the effect of the carcinogen aflatoxin is almost completely negated when a low protein diet is followed. In particular, his research targets casein, protein from cow's milk, as contributing to the formation of cancerous tumors. He believes that consuming diary products on a regular basis is dangerous to your health.

All told, this is without doubt the best book on nutrition, diet, and health that I have ever read, and believe me, I've read a few over the years. The arguments presented, over and above the very persuasive evidence, are compelling. One of the things I like to do when evaluating opposing views on what is good for human beings is to ask myself how was it in the prehistory? What sort of diet did humans become adapted to over the millennia? It was only about 10,000 years ago that animal husbandry began; in other words, it's only been about 10,000 years since any people have depended on milk as a food. Furthermore, although prehistoric humans were hunters and scavengers, it is clear that the bulk of their diet came from gathering plant sources. Even when they did slay an animal, that animal's flesh was lean, not fatty. This is not to say that prehistoric humans did not eat animal flesh. They did. In some cultures animal flesh was the mainstay of the diet. But they are exceptions. Furthermore, the deleterious effects of a diet containing significant amounts of animal products would not have affected prehistoric peoples much since few lived long lives. Today most people (in the Western world at least) will live into their seventies, eighties and nineties. How free from pain and discomfort and how active and healthful they will be for how long will depend to some large measure on what they eat. This is Dr. Campbell's message.