Stay Healthy With A Vegetarian Diet

Our state and federal governments are attempting come up with plans to provide medical insurance for everyone. These plans range from let everyone die early to creating a monstrous government bureaucracy in Washington to take care of everything for us.

The one plan that no one seems to be talking about is simple – stay healthy. Think about it – if the majority of the population is healthy there is less need for medical services and less need for medical insurance.

Obviously, there are and will continue to be diseases over which we have very little control – or do we? A book called The China Study written by T. Colin Campbell is the result of a lifetime of study on diet as it relates to disease, especially cancer.

The book points out that animal foods and protein tend to make you sick while vegetables have the opposite effect. This seems to verify that vegetarian eating is the best way to stay healthy.

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The book lays out the results of a lifetime of research on diet as it relates to disease, especially cancer. At the center of The China Study is a joint Chinese-Western effort that is the largest and most comprehensive such study ever attempted.

The results were nothing short of startling.

They found that animal fats and protein — milk included — tend to make you sick. Vegetables make you well.

Laboratory studies confirmed that even if massive amounts of carcinogens were fed to rats and mice, they didn’t produce much cancer — until animal protein was added to the diet.

Think on that. Our air, water, and food supplies are being corrupted with cancer-causing materials every day. Yet the study indicates that unless you combine those materials with protein from meat and dairy products, you probably won’t get cancer.

Dr. Campbell also describes studies indicating that a plant-based diet has a preventative effect on diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and autoimmune diseases like MS and rheumatoid arthritis. In some cases, a rigid plant-based diet was found to roll back those diseases.

The answer to health, then, seems to lie in becoming a vegan — someone who eats only food derived from plants.

I’ve just lost you, haven’t I? A plant-only diet sounds like the latest fad taken up by Hollywood celebrities.

It isn’t. There’s strong scientific evidence that it provides a way to a long and healthy life that doesn’t end prematurely in a hospital bed with a dozen tubes attached to your wasted body.

Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not advising you become a vegan. It’s a hard life, particularly if you’re not an inventive cook. A vegetarian meal can sometimes taste good, but eating out is often a challenge.

But remember this. There are a thousand ways to die and every one of them has a lobbyist working for it in Washington.

You are the only lobbyist working for No. 1.

Donald Kaul: Stay Healthy