Eat to Live Diet

When looking for the healthiest diet, people often consider vegetarian diets. But are vegetarian diets the healthiest diets?

There are two things we all know with certainty. First of all, more nutritious food, such as vegetables, beans, fruits, raw nuts, and seeds in the diet have dramatic effects at reducing the risk of both heart disease and most cancers.

The other thing we know is that as animal products increase in a population's diet, the risk of both heart disease and cancer increase. It has been observed in multiple scientific studies that vegetarians have fewer heart attacks and less incidence of cancer than those on omnivorous diets.

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Despite the availability of nutritious foods, much of the modern developed world today eats a much less than optimal diet.

In fact, the incidence of heart disease and cancer is higher in more developed countries and still kills about 80% of all adults, despite the fact that the nutritional causes of these illnesses have been explained by scientific studies.

Unfortunately, our society has developed to the point where half of all caloric intake today comes from refined or processed foods and about 40 percent from animal products.

Both processed food and animal products lead to heart disease and cancer, according to scientific literature.

The most commercially successful diet books in our country appeal to America's love-affair with saturated, fat-rich animal products and still leave the public with a relatively dangerous solution to their growing waistlines.

These books encourage a higher percentage of animal products in people's diets in spite of the preponderance of evidence showing the links to heart disease and cancer.

In contrast, a book that promotes a plant based diet and is revolutionizing the way people eat is Eat To Live , by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

The chief feature that makes the Eat to Live diet beneficial compared to more conventional ways of eating is that a person following the Eat to Live diet is likelier to be consuming more high nutrient produce that contains protective fibers and antioxidant nutrients.

The Eat To Live diet will naturally be lower in saturated fat, which is an accepted risk factor for both heart disease and cancer.

Not surprisingly, fruits and vegetables are the two nutritious foods with the highest correlation with longevity in humans.

Not whole wheat bread, not bran, not even a vegetarian diet shows as powerful a correlation with decreased mortality as does a high level of fresh fruit and raw green salad consumption.

The National Cancer Institute recently reported on 337 different studies, with all showing the same basic information:

1. Vegetables and fruit protect against all types of cancers if consumed in large enough quantities. Thousands of scientific studies document this. The most prevalent cancers in our country are primarily a plant-food deficiency disease.

2. Raw vegetables have the most powerful anti-cancer properties of all foods.

3. Beans, in general, and not just soy, have additional anti-cancer benefits against reproductive cancers, like breast and prostate cancer.

Clearly, the chief health reason to choose the Eat To Live diet is to consume high levels of fruit, green vegetables, and beans. A diet primarily comprised of nutritious foods, not processed food or animal products is the key both to better health, and healthy weight loss.

There are three main problems with diets that contain significant amounts of animal products:

1. More than a thousand well-designed studies have led to all major health authorities around the world to conclude that saturated fat is a leading contributor to high cholesterol, heart disease, and many cancers. In spite of that, some still believe the earth is flat, and saturated fat is not harmful.

2. Fat soluble petrochemicals such as PCB's and dioxin, as well as other toxic elements such as mercury are transferred to humans predominantly via the fatty portions of fish, dairy, meat, and poultry and in that order. Fatty fish that are rich sources of omega-3 fats are also typically heavily contaminated with harmful pollutants.

3. Animal products contain no fiber, and almost no antioxidant vitamins such as vitamins C, K, E and folate. They also are lacking in all the anti-cancer phytochemicals, bioflavonoids, lignins, and carotenoids that are so essential to protect us against chronic illnesses, immune system disorders, and a premature death.

With animal products occupying a major caloric percentage of the diet, less remains for natural, unrefined plant produce, nutritious foods essential to our health.

The inclusion of sugar, white flour, oil and other low-nutrient calories in an omnivorous diet virtually guarantees phytonutrient deficiency and the occurrence of late life cancer.

So the low levels of certain essential nutrients are inevitable, unless an omnivorous diet is carefully designed to include substantial amounts of fresh fruits, vegetables, beans, raw nuts, and seeds to supply crucial food elements for optimal health.

The amount of produce necessary to afford a considerable degree of protection would automatically necessitate animal products be a significantly smaller percentage of ones dietary intake, rather than a main portion.

After that, the type of animal products chosen is crucial to minimize their potential harmful effects. The animal products that are lowest in saturated fat are egg whites, low fat fish, skinless white meat turkey, and chicken.

The highest saturated fat animal products are butter, cheeses, and red meat.

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Both vegetarian and omnivorous and diets can be made healthful or harmful; nutritious food choices, wise supplementation and nutritional sophistication will make the difference in the type of diet you choose.

Following a strict vegetarian diet is not as important as eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Inclusion of high nutrient produce, including nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables and beans are an essential part of the Eat To Live diet and the path we recommend.

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Dr. Joel Fuhrman is not keen on vitamin therapy. He believes that ideally we should be obtaining our nourishment from whole, natural foods. Nevertheless, there are times when we may require a vitamin supplement.

The term "supplement" is quite appropriate as it's purpose is not to substitute for the foods we should be eating, but rather to simply supplement what our body may be lacking.

The following product is suited to those who need to reduce their cholesterol.
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Pregnant and nursing women may wish to use the following multivitamin/multimineral. - Gentle Care

For young children who are fussy eaters we recommend Pixie-Vites.

For those who wish to strengthen their immune system and fight allergies we suggest Perilla Sinus

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