AstraZeneca . . . or a plant-based diet?
If you read this blog regularly, you’ve heard my opinion that the drug companies have to be watched closely because their motive is in direct conflict with public health interests. Don’t give your money to most “breast cancer research” campaigns, for instance, because it’s usually just the drug companies double dipping. That is, [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →defending that my diet’s not all raw
I read the raw foodists all the time (Patenaude, Wolfe, Boutenko, and lots more). I think their diet is fantastic. Sometimes I go all raw, for a few days, weeks, or even months. I wouldn’t criticize anybody for a minute who wants to do it permanently, as some of my friends do–they [...]
40 Comments • Continue Reading →Raw food beating cancer is front-page news!
Yesterday my friend Shelley Abegg, a breast cancer five-year survivor, was on the front page. She beat cancer without chemo or radiation with a raw-food vegan diet: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/286151/17/ This is a four-part series on local women with breast cancer. The first two parts were full of radiation and chemo stories, [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 9 of 12
Some stats on hormones and antibiotics in our meat supply, and Mad Cow disease: U.S. beef cattle that receive hormone implants: 90% (100% in larger feedlots) Independent European Union scientists’ report on the effect of hormones added to U.S. beef: they are “complete carcinogens” (able to cause and promote cancer by themselves) (hormone 17 [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 4 of 12
Do certain diets prevent cancer? Today, good stats on health implications of eating meat: Risk of colon cancer for women who eat red meat daily, versus those who eat it less than once a month: 250 percent greater Risk of colon cancer for people who eat red meat once a week compared to [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 3 of 12
More today on whether dairy products contribute to health: Calcium absorption rates according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Brussels sprouts 64% [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →Last comments about WHY BUY BLENDTEC rather than VitaMix
By the way, a nice thing about having two machines (or three, like I have) is that as a GSG evangelist, you want to lend someone a machine. I *always* have my second VM lent out. For a while my cleaning lady had it while she saved for her own, and currently my teaching assistant, [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Are Europeans healthier than we are?
So as you can see, Europeans have fast food. McD’s is found in 10 locations in the very hip and cosmopolitan city of Barcelona, for instance. They don’t have nearly as many chains or locations as we do, though. I have a weird little game I played in airports and train stations [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Fish, and taking fish-oil pills
For you fish eaters, the U.S. FDA stated in 2001 that fish with the highest mercury levels are tilefish, swordfish, mackerel, shark, white snapper, and tuna. The lowest levels are found in salmon, flounder, sole, tilapia, and trout (though these fish are high in other toxins, in some waters). If you’re eating fish-oil pills [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Is the China Study bogus?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: The Oxford-Cornell China Project is irrelevant to us, because Campbell studied rats and mice, and then Chinese people. Not Americans. Answer: I’m not going to comment much on the notion that Chinese and American people aren’t alike enough to compare. Either we all descended from apes, or we were all [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →