The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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ly reduce or eliminate its diabetic condition, and this has been shown
repeatedly.
Even more to be wondered at is the fact that, with armies of apparently
intelligent people working on the diabetes crisis, doing all sorts of
tests, applying for grants, writing research papers, and sharing their findings,
few seem to make these obvious connections. Researchers hurry ever
onward, spending money and torturing laboratory animals in the search
for “mechanisms” and pharmaceutical bullets that can be patented to
profit their employers. And yet, as McDougall writes in a rare instance of
someone candidly stating the obvious from within the medical profession,
It is no coincidence that the same diet that helps prevent or cure diabetes
also causes effortless weight loss, lowers cholesterol and
triglycerides, cleans out the arteries, and returns the body to excellent
function. But no matter how much research appears saying the
same thing over and over again, the tide is unlikely to change because
of the economic incentives for the medical establishment of continued
illness and profitable treatments. 46
The toxic fat, cholesterol, and protein in our diets are the foundation
of a huge medical complex that continues to reap profits from our
sickness. Weight reduction is a large and expanding industry, with both
alternative and conventional programs offered, most of which seem to
distract people from the simple truths and complicate the subject to
their own advantage. Lucrative pharmaceutical and surgical invasions,
such as drugs, liposuction, stomach stapling and gastric bypass, are
often preferred by the medical complex to the simpler measure of advising
people to eat a more plant-based diet.
Besides causing obesity, the fat and cholesterol in animal foods clog
our arteries, and we again find ourselves reluctant customers of the
medical industry’s ingenious, expensive, and marginally effective solutions.
These include a whole range of drugs (complete with “side”
effects) that artificially thin our cholesterol-laden blood. And there are
the surgical procedures as well. These include reaming out arteries,
angioplasty, and heart bypass surgery.