A Few Life Long Changes Part 1

Our family has been making some slow and steady changes around here. I recently read the book, "The China Study" by Colin Campbell.

















It is very telling about the effects of some of the foods we eat and consider safe. Dr. Campbell, the Author, spent40+ years of his life in medical and health related scientific research. He studied the effects of specifics from the eating patterns of people all over the world. Startling implications have recently been made in regard to how important it really is to pay close attention to the Word of Wisdom.
For those who subscribe to another faith than "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints", the word of wisdom is a health code that we as members are encouraged strongly to study and live by and when we do, great blessings of health and protection are promised.

In his book, Dr. Campbell noticed that by eating very little amounts of animal based protein (meat, milk, cheese, eggs,) and consuming a diet high in plant based nutrition ( whole grains, vegetables, herbs, nuts, seeds, and NO processed foods, ) the effect is shrinking cancerous tumors, as well as the elimination of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimers, auto-immune diseases, arthritis etc........
Some of his studies showed animals who had cancerous tumors and were being injected with cancer causing Aflatoxins. The one's who consumed a diet with 5% or less of animal protein did not develop any new tumors and their existing tumors began to actually go away.
The group of animals who consumed a diet of 20% or higher of animal protein and were also injected with increasing amounts of Carcinogenic toxins, grew multiple tumors and got sicker as the dose of poison increased. However, as they brought the diets back down to a 5% or less of animal protein, the tumors respectively shrunk back down to nothing and were rendered harmless --EVEN with continued high levels of Cancer causing toxins being injected.

The study showed that they could manipulate the growth of cancer, turning it off and then back on again by changing the diet. Most Americans consume diets rich in Animal protein and fat. They take in, on average, 35-40% animal protein. Many people's diets are higher than that. There are people who haven't consumed anything green or living in weeks. How scary!!!!

Massive population wide studies in China also showed that in rural farming villages of China, there were families who had lived in the same geographical area for hundreds of years and not a soul in the town had ever heard of such diseases as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many others. These people lived off of what they produced. They consumed whole grains, beans, rice, whole foods and herbs that they grew themselves. As they began to study the population into the more modernized and westernized parts of China, they noticed that the rates of these diseases were as high as it is here in America based on affluence. These diseases became known as diseases of affluence. They show up mostly in households who consume large amounts of meat, dairy, processed and chemicalized foods, and fast food.

There is now alarming evidence to support the theory that consuming a plant -based diet rich in whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, herbs, and vegetables and staying away from highly processed foods and meats can not only lower your risk for diseases of affluence, but can reverse the effects of many of these diseases. The diet, in most cases, was the protection to prevent affluent diseases, but at the same time, it was also the cure for them as well.

Large food companies have added severely dangerous and highly toxic and addictive ingredients to the convenient packaged foods we consume. Even foods that appear to be whole, have been grown or sprayed with chemicals that will kill insects, make the plants prettier, and resist weeds and bugs, but at the expense of the population's health. We should run the other way from entities who could care less about our health.

So in our family, we've been making slow and steady changes over the years. I've known for years that a whole foods diet was wise and would greatly improve our health, but never really knew how to make that happen. I guess you could say, we fell off the wagon more than once and went back to consuming "what everyone else was doing". Our wake up call was Jessica's cancer, and my own body's fight to stay alive. Now, we have more motivation than ever.