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D:
What I hear you saying is that the thing you absolutely need to do in your
treatment program is more plants and less meat.
Yeah,
I'm not a vegetarian. I'm
a believer we have four teeth in our head to tear meat for a reason. But we
also have eight times as many teeth to grind things. If you eat eight times as
many bites that come from a plant as you comes
from meat, that's health promoting.
And
the University
of Michigan's medical
school has created what's called a healing foods pyramid. And that to me is my
very favorite pyramid form of a healing foods pyramid meaning that when you eat
this way, this way of eating can optimize your health. And not only prevent
disease but potentially manage and reverse all different kinds of diseases.
At
the bottom of their pyramid is water. The next step up is fruits and
vegetables. The next step up is true whole grains and then you get into beans,
nuts, lentils and seeds. And as you get towards the top of that pyramid you
have meat, dairy and eggs. And at the very top of that they have chocolate and
wine meaning that these things you eat on an occasional or rare basis.
D:
When you say occasional or rare, does that mean weekly, daily?
Yeah,
they even have the animal product as optional. If you want a healing effect,
you don't need meat, dairy and eggs. I personally think there are some people
that do need some meat. And the fact is that there are civilizations on our
planet right now that are amongst the longest living on the planet and they
have dairy in their diet every day.
But
by the same token when you look at Asian populations these people don't have
any dairy in their diet after they stop nursing as babies. They're not drinking
milk. They're not eating cheese. They're not eating yogurt. They're not eating
ice cream. They don't have anybody telling them to drink more milk to avoid
osteoporosis and yet our incidence of osteoporosis is far, far greater than it
is in Asian countries where they don't have any dairy in their diet.
So
what I like about the University
of Michigan healing foods
pyramid is the flexibility meaning that different people are different.
Different people will have different needs. Different people have different
genetic . But what they are saying is that
regardless of whether you have the meat, dairy and eggs in your diet these are
things to have less occasionally. So the
formula is basically for every bite of an animal product say meat, dairy and
eggs, try to have eight bites of vegetables and fruits.
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