Preventive Nutrition Is the Same as Nutrition to Reverse Disease

The chicken, fish, and low-fat dairy eating that most people think is healthy for
the heart may be a little better than the typical greasy diet, but it is a far cry
from a good diet. It will never offer significant protection against or reverse
heart disease or cancer. We now have a population of miseducated consumers
who think they are on a low-fat diet and wonder why they continue to have high
blood pressure and heart disease, not to mention all the other diseases
resulting from this outmoded diet. Doctors tell them their illnesses must be
genetic or idiopathic (no known cause), which covers up ignorance or inability
to improve outcome. The patients are forced to take more medication.

These often ignored points must be emphasized. Even the lower-fat animal
products are linked to heart disease, cancer, and auto immune diseases. Also,
extracted oils, even the least harmful of them, such as canola or olive oil, still
promote obesity and diabetes and even increase the risk of cancer. Keep in
mind that when food is not in its natural state (you never saw a jar of oil
growing on a tree), it more than likely is a risky food to consume on a regular
basis.

If we follow a dietary program that is rich in natural plant foods and
eliminates or reduces the intake of refined and overly processed foods and
high-protein, high-fat foods, the body remarkably begins to slowly heal itself.
The power of your food choices has astonishing effects since food is the most
variable and the most substantial external agent that we are in contact with
each day.

Fasting, like food selection, is a form of nutritional modification. It has broad
biochemical effects on the body. While fasting, the healing process is
accelerated. This enables the cells and tissues to clean out the excesses that
already exist. Keep in mind, however, that if the message you glean from this
book is to fast periodically to give your body a chance to rest and perform
internal housecleaning, and yet continue to stress your system between the
fasts, you will lose most of the possible benefits.