Healthspan

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audio and transcripts of interviews with leading nutritionist

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., as well as

Healthspan

For over a century a vast nutritional experiment has been conducted. The experiment changed our diets radically from the traditional diets of previous millennia to our “conventional” low-fiber, high protein, high fat, salt, sugar, and refined flour diet. The result has been unequivocal: a substantially increased chance of suffering from debilitating degenerative disorders.

If the stress imposed by this type of diet is relieved, the body can work more effectively to prevent development of a disorder, or possibly ameliorate and even reverse the course of an existing disorder. Health is the natural state that the body seeks; removing obstacles to health supports healing.

The relationship of complementary and alternative nutrition to medical matters has been my hobby for decades. Many nutritional controversies as well as lesser known startling issues have fascinated me. Although I’m not a certified health professional, I’ve applied my scientific screen, learned as a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and through studies in biology, to information about health to filter what seems to me to be the best. In case you also have an interest in such matters, I’ve prepared the downloadable free book Healthspan.

For the many reasons detailed in this book and substantiated by referenced scientific studies, it can be concluded that a health-supporting diet encompasses a mix of foods with only a moderate amount of fat and with more complex carbohydrates, emphasizing almost exclusively savory dishes and sweet treats made with a wide variety of plant-based, unrefined foods, while avoiding milk products completely, and minimizing other animal-based foods to no more than about half a card deck’s worth (half a standard serving) a day, or eliminating them. Within those guidelines, varied approaches can support healing and robust health.

While eating within those guidelines for many years I’ve not gotten the flu, without getting any flu shots. I “hardly ever” get sick, missing exercise at most one day a year if that due to concern about getting a cold. I find it easy to maintain my target weight, having lost fifty pounds to achieve it. “Taking the dietary road less traveled” has been working for me and many others. While these anecdotes do not constitute proof, they do justify further study.

I give presentations on health issues without charging a speaker’s fee, as a voluntary public service. The presentations are oriented towards the layperson.

My book Healthspan can be downloaded free by clicking below. For brief summaries of major points made in the book, as well as notes for talks that I give, please see in the Appendices of the book: “Dietary Support of Prevention and Healing”, “Talk, Fad Diet Hype”, “Talk, Food and Health: The Lesser Known Controversies”, “Article: The Dark Side of Dairy” and “Author’s diet and exercise”.

I have no business association with the author or publisher of any of the books cited in Healthspan, nor with any of the suppliers mentioned. No personal income is desired.

To read the Table of Contents to decide whether to download the book free, click Healthspan Book.

To your health and that of your loved ones! May your healthspans be robust and lengthy!

Highly Recommended Resources

Audio interviews (and transcripts) with leading nutritionist T. Colin Campbell, PhD, the co-author of China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long Term Health, probably the most important book on breakthrough scientific research in nutrition in decades: the first interview covers a major part of the message.

Slides from presentations of “Heart Disease and Cancer: Scientific Studies in Prevention and Reversal”, with selected slides donated by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., co-author of China Study, can be downloaded free at SlidesHealthPresentation. Research is described about food’s impact on cancer and heart disease, also suggesting that health can be supported by consuming mainly plant-based, unrefined foods.

“8-Minute Progressive Relaxation”, download of free audio and transcript

Talk show by an MD: The internet broadcast (podcast) of the talk show “Nutritional Wisdom” by Joel Fuhrman MD could prove very useful for those who don’t have time to read a book, but could listen to the shows while working on other tasks. Any of the podcasts can be downloaded gratis at any time. The listing of previous podcasts can be viewed by searching for “Fuhrman” and clicking on the program title “Nutritional Wisdom”.

Further support on the quest for improved health

In addition to Professor Campbell’s book, the following are very useful, in that they also describe the scientific basis for the health benefits of emphasizing plant-based foods:

Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, MD (www.DrFuhrman.com)

Breaking the Food Seduction by Neil D. Barnard, MD (www. pcrm.org)

A detailed description of recipes and a diet that are consistent with my current dietary approach can be found in the book The Macrobiotic Way by Michio Kushi [www.kushiinstitute.org].

Links

Plant-Based Recipes

www.pcrm.org/health/recipes

www.vrg.org/recipes/schoolers.htm

www.vrg.org/nutshell/30daymenu.htm

www.vrg.org/recipes

www.veganrecipes.com

www.vegweb.com/whatsnew

www.vegsource.com/recipe

www.jewishveg.com/recipes.html

Children’s Health

http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/campaigns/childrenshealth/campaignsbadhabits.htm