Although I have been using diet and nutrition in my wellness journey for close to two years now believing whole heartedly that diet has the ability to prevent and cure disease moreso than anything Western medicine has to offer, I just got around to reading The China Study, a revolutionary text based on sound, peer reviewed scientific evidence that animal-based diets cause disease, such as all cancers, auto-immune disease, and heart disease, and plant-based diets create health. I finished the close to 400 page book in two days. Simply, I just could not put it down because it was everything I believe and know in my heart wrapped into a tiny, scientific, bible-like package that I can now present to others when they criticize my lifestyle choices instead of defending my position time and again until I am blue in the face. Once you read this text, your world will change. Knowledge is power, and if you want health, you need to get rid of your emotional ties to certain foods and eat in a way that promotes and sustains health and prevents disease. I've cheated here and there, especially when out with the status quo getting a cup of joe to wake up this med head (a common scene for a grad student on opiates) and there is no soy milk, or my preferred un-sweetened coconut milk, to go around, but no more.
I could go on forever about this text and what it represents, but at the same time, I am left without words because of how astounding the evidence is. You need to read for yourself, and the sooner you do, the better off you will be.
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Have you read Eat for Life, or Eat for Health, or visited drfuhrman.com? I'm thinking you probably have. I just discovered this wonderful doctor about a few months ago.
Maria, I read this book (and while I did, my friend, did too!) and was very impressed at the 'readability' of such solid, scientific research! I'm sure you've been reading many a book/text which can bore you to tears, although the subject is one you're fond of, right? However, I found myself - much like you, it sounds - relishing every bit of information which I knew to be true, arming me with excellent scientific proof which one would be hard-pressed to deny.
In fact, I think you've just inspired me to fetch a copy from the library to read again and soon! Better yet, find my own copy for excellent reference material.
The China Study is the book that pushed me over the edge from vegetarian to vegan. It was a good read and made me never want to eat dairy again.
The China Study is a great book to read. It's one of the things that got me to consider eating that way too.
Dr. Neal Barnard's book Food For Life (http://www.amazon.com/Food-Life-Four-Groups-Save/dp/0517882019) and Dr. McDougall (http://www.drmcdougall.com) are the two doctors who cemented that type of eating for me.
Kris, no I haven't read those yet, but I am going to give them a google right now!
Lisa, I could read it over and over!
Zoey, congrats to you!!!! I wrote you on your blog :-)
Greensky, thanks for the suggestions! I've been doing a lot of reading about excitotoxins right now. Geeze...
I hope that means you're avoiding stuff like bleach (TERRIBLE stuff - should be banned from use, IMHO). Then there's 'feminine hygiene products' which are processed paper (bleached!), plastic (yay, petrochemicals) and all of this non-degradableness near your girly reproductive bits... with their xenoestrogens and all... frightens me to think!
Might be TMI, but I got a DivaCup years ago and it rocked my world. :) Cost $40 CDN but they will last up to 10 years (had mine for 4 or 5 and it's perfect still).
OK, Too Much Info ends. :)
love this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
reading it now, although i had to take a break as i am visiting some dairy-eaters and i need to just get them a copy instead of trying to convert them all by myself. in fact i am going to get it for almost everyone i know.
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