What did I learn?

Two weeks ago my wife and I went to Fort Wayne, IN. to be in a one day Health Immersion with Dr. Fuhrman. Emily Boller, the person in charge of making the day happen inviting me to be apart and share my weight lost success.  I was excited for more than one reason, I wanted to meet Dr. Fuhrman and Emily, but also I wanted to be renewed within. The day was excellent and brain overload, even for someone who has been on this journey for over 3 years now. Actually I started losing weight 4 years ago but discovered Dr. Fuhrman through a colleague, Gary Thomas. So what did I learn at this health immersion?

The Standard American Diet is S.A.D., how true and how fitting. That health care is actually self-care. We rely on others to keep us healthy, what’s wrong with that statement? Since when does someone else get up with you and cloth you or bathe you? So staying healthy is the medical field’s problem? That’s America. In fact, by the time most people are 30, they are on some kind of medication. And they stay on meds for the rest of their lives and think, “this is normal.” Seriously? We eat too much protein in the way of animal protein and not nearly enough of whole natural protein. Animal protein promotes cancer in our bodies and we have to wake up to the data, the science, the studies that say it over and over, we were not meant to eat this way! God did not intend for us to live by eating animals and processed foods as our daily diet. God intended for us to eat plants, seeds and nuts, so what happened? Whatever happened, did so many years before us and mostly in the later 50’s and early 60’s with processed foods (an easier way of life, the good ‘ol TV dinner!)

Medicine doesn’t motivate us to get and stay healthy. Medicine allows us to be overweight, live with diabetes instead of lose weight and lose the diabetes. We live with sore joints instead of losing weight and helping our joints. It all shortens our life. It really does! We don’t eat foods that promote healthy tissues, healthy blood pressure, healthy weight; we just drop a pill for those. For example, what’s the difference between a bagel and a piece of chicken? NOTHING. They are same type of food, very little micronutrient per calorie. Their nutrient load is the same, they offer very little to our health and our digestive system. At what point will you decide to fuel your body with nutrients instead of whatever tastes good but offers little fuel to the body? This diet ages us, causes inflammation of our organs and joints, and doesn’t allow the repair of our blood cells which damages our DNA. We live with toxins and free radicals, which become cancer, heart attacks and death.

We live with funny ideas, diet pop over the real thing, skim milk over whole milk. Actual diet drinks are dangerous to our health because our brains think it’s going to take some nutrition and it doesn’t but the brain already sent out its messages and whole body wonders what just happened. The same with skim milk, it has more fat and sugars than whole milk. How can that be? Look at the research, skim milk is processed and in an effort to make it taste good they have screwed it up even more so than whole milk! We think we are eating right when we are causing more damage to our internal organs.

The really sad news is we are addicted to feeling good and if we feel any sort of discomfort we want to eat to lose that feeling. I have experienced that myself. It’s self-medicating; I bet you do this every week. Did you know that hunger feeling is not hunger at all? It is withdrawal. Hunger comes from our throat and head. This is science, not me making things up, please go do the research and prove it yourself. Withdrawal feels like hunger but it is a nutrient deficiencies and our body building up toxins and we feel discomfort. YOU’RE NOT HUNGRY.  This is something you might need time to think about and learn on before we move to another phase of digesting and resting. In my next blog, I’ll talk about foods, how to break addiction, learn to live a longer life and stay healthy as you age. I wish you only the best!  So, I am including Dr. Fuhrman’s website for you to visit and learn for yourself:    http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx

To your health,

Bill