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The number 1 disease prevention strategy
Whether it's cancer, heart disease, diabetes or a host of other degenerative diseases, no intervention works better than cutting back on calories. That's why, for example, Okinawans have only 6 breast cancer deaths per one hundred thousand people while Americans have 33. Prostate, 4 deaths vs. 28
This means eliminating high calorie processed foods. These are the foods that cause disease and eventually kill people. This has been well documented with numerous studies that began in the 1930s. Medical doctors won't cure you by prescribing drugs to cover up symptoms. It's all up to you and what foods you put in your mouth. Therefore, the best health care system in the world can't magically bestow good health upon their patients. You have to work for good health. You have to earn it. That's why I have always said that, when it comes to degenerative diseases, people usually get the health they are qualified for. Do you know of any health strategy that's better than the one I outlined above? |
I'm glad you said "usually" 'cause sometimes you just draw a bad hand and have to do the best you can with what you've got.
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Not worth posting, .....no medical experience or training ....just irritating...
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You know VP sometimes your comments really amaze me. My granddaughter developed a very aggressive and deadly form of bone cancer at the age of 13 months. Tell me did she deserve it! It must have been from all that mother's milk she drank.
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This is my opinion and worth just that..only an opinion.
Our daughter who weighed 115 pounds and ate very healthily and exercised...developed a very aggressive breast cancer at the age of 29.
I know VP's oft stated theory about genetics and what switches it on, but it doesn't line up with the information that I have read. Yes it does help to keep your weight down, particularly in trying to prevent breast cancer because all tissue produces estrogen, it also is wise to avoid soy products because they mimic estrogen, not take birth control pills and Hormone Replacement Therapy. She took none of these. I feel in my heart, due to what I have read with my eyes and processed with my brain that if every living soul followed VP's idea of what is healthy to eat and kept themselves as thin as he think is best,and exercised from childhood on....., that cancer and disease would still happen, maybe less, but it would STILL happen The Okinawans are pretty much a group without intermarriage, where we are the melting pot here in U.S. So genetics and other factors skew those numbers. And I also feel in my bones that NOTHING will convince VP otherwise. I think it is kind of him to worry so much about all of us. |
What more can we do
While I agree that the food we eat plays a large part of how healthy we are, there are other circumstances that may lead to poor health or worse. We can take care of our body by eating healthy and exercising but if the good Lord has another plan for us then it would be out of our control. I had a neighbor, 30 years old who ate well, jogged religiously and had a loving wife and kids. One morning he went out to jog and never came home. He collapsed of a heart attack. So, our destiny is not always in our control. His poor parents also lost his 17 and 18 year old sisters in a car crash. 3 children, 3 lives gone. Live each day to its fullest.
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VP, I don't know you that well yet. But I must say I simply don't understand the point of your post. It doesn't ask a question. It doesn't request information. It doesn't respond to someone else's point. It doesn't pose a topic for an exchange of opinions and information. It simply states as fact an opinion that is highly arguable and, in some cases, hurtful and offensive.
What's the point? |
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Eating is simply not the root of all evil. Spending your days counting how many calories you can do without makes your world very small and closed in. |
I can find a scientific study to support EVERY point of view.
Red wine is good for you, or alcohol in any form is bad for you. Coffee is complex and is good for you, or caffine is bad for you. Raw sugar is the only sweetener that is good for you, or that all sugar and artificial substitutes are bad. Eat only fruits and vegetables, or lack of protein in the form of meat or fish is bad. Lower calories add years to our lives, or your better off with a high fat diet. Olive oil is the only one to use, olive oil is bad Carbohydrates are good, or they are bad I can find a well done scientific study to support every one of those positions. About the only consistent message is exercise in most any form is good. Sedentary is bad. I personally believe that any thing in moderation is good. Doing anything in excess is bad including eating a so called healthy vegan diet or exercising to extreme. A balance of everything including wine, fat, sugar, meat, fruit, vegetables, olive oil, fish, and most everything else is OK if done in moderation. I believe natural anything is better then processed anything, that true organic is better then any thing grown using pesticides, that exercise is any form is better then none, and that by trying and experiencing all that life has to offer is the very best path to health and happiness. |
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But what must you think when you read: 6 Okinawan breast cancer deaths per 100,000 people versus 33 in the U.S.? Buy the way, I looked up the word "deserve" in the dictionary and it has multiple meanings, as one might expect. One implies punishment but then it said "qualified" and I think that word works better to express my point. So I went back and changed it to "qualified". |
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The first generation tends to favor the Japanese lifestyle that they brought with them from Japan. But the second generation usually adopts the American lifestyle. And studies have shown that the rates of disease for them are the same as for all other Americans. It therefore proves that genes have nothing to do with it. Quote:
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His death is one good reason why they say: "Before starting an exercise program, see your doctor." |
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