DIET FOR LIFE
Posted by adminEvery single study to emerge from modem nutritional science has strongly indicated that our bodies rebel when we eat a diet high in fats, refined carbohydrates and animal protein. Our immune systems, and all other body systems and organs, fare best when we eat a vegetarian diet of complex carbohydrates augmented, if desired, by small amounts of fish, chicken or turkey without the skin, or by low-fat, unflavored yogurt or cottage cheese.
We should also aim to eat as many foods as possible in their primary state, meaning exactly as they exist in nature. Although grains, legumes and tubers may require light cooking, the closer they are to their original natural state, the more they contribute to our being disease-free.
While it helps to eat the 80-10-10 way during an infection, for maximum benefit we should try to follow this way of eating all of the time. Although no controlled study has been made to show that vegetarians have fewer colds, a number of carefully planned studies—including the Framingham study—have clearly demonstrated that vegetarians have a much lower incidence of heart disease, stroke, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, osteoporosis, gallstones and kidney stones, and infectious diseases than do men and women who eat refined carbohydrates and foods of animal origin. It would seem safe, therefore, to extend this list to include the common cold and influenza.
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