Eric 28/07/2021
Good health starts with good food. A whole food, plant-based diet is the foundation to good health.
The photo of me on this page is before I lost all that weight. I used to weigh 122 kilos. I took 18 months adopting a lifestyle change to reach 96 kilos. I am holding steady at 96 kilos and feel GREAT.
My default go-to-website for health and lifestyle information is Dr. Michael Greger’s website
https://nutritionfacts.org/
Dr. Greger’s website has 2,000 short videos on many health subjects.
Dr. Greger presents the video in easy-to-understand English with a copy of the text below for you to read or translate to your language.
I strongly recommend you use this website to learn more about how to live a long and healthy life.
This website is unlike other doctor websites because Dr. Greger is not trying to sell you anything.
Everything on his website is free.
Other doctor websites try to sell you a membership or food supplement. Dr. Greger doesn’t ask for any money but he does ask you to buy his best-selling book “How not to die”. I have read this book 3 times and learnt more each time I read it.
Reading this book obviously does not stop you from dying, but it does teach you how to live a longer, healthy life.
If you don’t like reading books and only read one book in your life, make it this book…….this book has changed my life!
In the introductory video on the story of nutritionfacts.org, Dr. Greger tells how it all started with his grandmother. He was just a kid when his grandmother was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease and sent home to die. She already had so many bypass surgeries; was so scarred up inside; there was nothing more the surgeons could do. Confined in a wheelchair; crushing chest pain; her life was over at age 65. She could only walk a few steps before the pain in her chest and legs became unbearable.
Then, she heard about this guy, Nathan Pritikin, one of our early lifestyle medicine pioneers, and what happened next is chronicled in Pritikin’s biography. Dr. Greger’s grandmother was one of the “death’s door people.” Frances Greger, his grandmother. Arrived in a wheelchair. “Mrs. Greger had heart disease, angina, and claudication; her condition was so bad she could no longer walk without great pain in her chest and legs. Within three weeks (3 WEEKS), she was not only out of her wheelchair, but she was walking 10 miles a day (16 kilometers).” With a simple lifestyle change, grandmother Frances Greger didn’t die at age 65, she became healthier and lived 31 years more. Frances enjoyed life to ripe old age of 96 years!
I strongly urge you to read Dr. Greger’s best-selling book. This book covers many leading causes of death, including: Heart disease, Lung disease, Brain disease, Digestive cancers, Infections, Diabetes, High Blood pressure, Live disease, Blood disease, Kidney disease, Breast cancer, Suicidal depression, Prostate cancer, Parkinsons’s disease, Iatrogenic causes. This book reveals the 3rd leading cause of death for many people……….and it is not a disease! You can search for leading causes of death and you will not find it, the real 3rd cause of death is hidden. Search engines like Google and Yahoo and Bing will not reveal this leading cause of death. Most deaths in the United States are preventable, and they are related to what we eat. Our diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. Surely, diet must also be the number-one thing taught in medical schools, right? Sadly, it’s not. According to the most recent national survey, only a quarter of medical schools offer a single course in nutrition, down from 37 percent thirty years ago. While most of the public evidently considers doctors to be “very credible” sources of nutrition information, six out of seven graduating doctors surveyed felt physicians were inadequately trained to counsel patients about their diets. Many people assume that our manner of death is pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by fifty-five, heart attacks at sixty, maybe cancer at seventy, and so on.… But for most of the leading causes of death, the science shows that our genes often account for only 10–20 percent of risk at most. For instance, as you’ll see in this book, the rates of killers like heart disease and major cancers differ up to a hundredfold among various populations around the globe.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-story-of-nutritionfacts-org/
With a lifestyle change, you can do what grandmother Frances Greger did…….so are you ready to take the first step?
MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES
