Where is Bill Clinton getting his protein these days?

Posted on 02/23/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

The same place the strongest animals in the world get theirs.

J. Morris Hicks, author of Health Eating – Healthy World

Like animals in the wild with DNA closest to ours, our former president is getting his protein from raw plants. We’re talking about gorillas and chimpanzees, who are joined by the strongest animals in the world — in eating nothing but raw plants — elephants, horses, hippos, and giraffes.

And none of those strong animals ever drink the milk of another species, nor do they drink any milk whatsoever after being weaned from their mother. So why do we (the most intelligent species) humans think that we must have animal protein when the strongest animals in the world consume none? It’s a long story about how we got started eating meat and we touch on some of that in our book, but in the past 80 or 90 years, money and widespread ignorance have ruled the day — with the former driving the latter.

In addition to the dietary preference of the strongest animals as a clue to what we should be eating, there are four other compelling reasons that support the return of the human race to the natural diet for our species…what I like to call the “big picture” preponderance of evidence:

Former president Bill Clinton starting eating plant-based so that his body “could heal itself.”

  • Many well-documented entire cultures who eat mostly whole plants live long vibrantly healthy lives with almost zero cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc.
  • When those people migrate to the west, or become westernized in their own countries, they begin to get “our diseases of affluence” at the same rate as we do.
  • There are many widely-publicized studies documenting the actual reversal of diabetes, heart disease — in close to 100% of the cases when the patient is put on a whole foods, plant-based diet — like Clinton.
  • Finally, there is overwhelming scientific evidence now that supports the adoption of that same diet for all humans.

So, if all of the above is true, how is possible that virtually ALL of the world’s greatest minds still truly believe that they must have animal protein? I am reminded of a Mark Twain quote, “Everyone is ignorant, except on certain topics.” In this sad story, it is money that is driving that ignorance, but that is beginning to change as people like Clinton and Oprah start acting like vegans.

As Dr. Campbell and Esselstyn report in the Forks over Knives movie, our most deadly chronic diseases in the west are not the result of bad genes or bad luck — they’re the result of eating a diet that is not even remotely similar to the natural diet for our species…and Mother Nature is having her revenge.

In case you haven’t heard about how Mr. Clinton is eating these days, click on the video below and you can watch a short 2-minute clip with Bill on CNN with Wolf Blitzer from the early autumn of 2010. In a future post, we’ll delve more into the money involved and how that relates to the myth of academic freedom in the finest schools of nutritional science in the world.

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—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com

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“High Fiber” diet saves lives…but not nearly enough

Posted on 02/22/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

An optimal plant-based diet delivers 60 to 100 grams of fiber daily.

J. Morris Hicks

Had to chuckle when I saw this article in the New York Times yesterday talking about the virtues of eating lots of fiber. Unfortunately, their idea of “high fiber” is nowhere close to optimal. We all know that fiber is important, yet many people joke about the fact that “absolutely no one” gets enough fiber.

Unfortunately, most people believe that 25 grams per day is enough. Little do they know that, while 25 g. is much better than 10 or 11, it’s well short of halfway to the daily fiber delivered by a mostly whole plants diet…the kind of diet that promotes vibrant health, reverses heart disease & diabetes and prevents cancer. From the article:

Specifically, subjects who ate a diet rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables (adding up to 29 grams of fiber per day for men, 26 grams for women) were 22 percent less likely to die after nine years than those who ate the least fiber (13 and 11 grams per day), according to the study, in Archives of Internal Medicine.

With 400,000 people aged 50 to 71 in the study, they went on to say that 32,556 of them died during the nine-year study. I wonder how many of those people would still be living if someone like doctors Campbell and Esselstyn had told them that 26 to 29 grams of fiber a day was not a high fiber diet — it’s just got more fiber than the woefully inadequate typical western diet. More than 95% of Americans are eating some version of that diet and are getting less than 10 grams per day from the nutritious, health-promoting plants.

Eating primarily whole plants myself, I have gone to nutritiondata.com and measured my daily fiber intake. It averages somewhere between 60 and 100 grams per day.  That’s about three times more than what they called “high fiber” in this study. Try it for yourself. Click below if you’d like to read the entire article.

Diet – High Fiber Intake Linked With Longer Life – NYTimes.com.

Eating lots of fiber leads to an incredibly long list of benefits for your body and for your life — one of them is that you can save money by not having to buy reading material for your bathroom anymore.

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—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com

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Screening for cancer…a very big business

Posted on 02/21/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

Extensive screening gets patients in the door

Screening for cancer in the U.S. and other western countries has become a very big business…that’s often followed by an even bigger business — surgery, chemo and radiation.

J. Morris Hicks, "the big picture guy" for promoting health, hope & harmony on planet Earth.

Take the ubiquitous colonoscopy for example, with celebrities having the procedure televised to help raise our awareness — identifying our cancer while it is still treatable. This colorectal screening has become almost as routine as the annual physical; it has simply become “the right thing to do” when you’re over 50.

But, being a “big picture guy,” I wanted to understand this situation better. While doing research last year for our book, I learned that the risk of dying of colon cancer is 7% in the United States, that the real cost of a single colonoscopy is $3,000 (Blue Cross data) and that just the screening for colorectal cancer in the U.S. alone is a $50 billion business.

My first question is this.  If the risk of dying of colon cancer was less than 1%, would we still have a $50 billion industry to screen for it? I think not. So, if the risk goes down, the business gets smaller. Now, studies have shown for many years that for peoples who eat mostly whole plants their entire lives, their risk of having cancer of any kind approaches zero. So what’s wrong with this picture?

The problem is that the consumer is never told by our government or by our health care industry that colon cancer is nearly 100% preventable by consuming an optimal diet. Two of many examples: The Papua Highlanders of New Guinea and the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico survive on a diet of whole plants and suffer virtually NONE of the diseases that are so common in the western world; cancer, diabetes and heart disease. They also live a very long time. Typically, our health care professionals give diet and lifestyle changes lip service, saying that most patients would never adhere to such an extreme diet.

Bottom line. If you knew that your own odds of getting colon cancer was less than 1%, would you have the procedure? If you were told by your physician that you had it within your power to significantly lower your own odds — telling you about the power of whole plants to prevent, arrest or possibly even reverse some cancers; would you consider making those extreme changes in your diet?

Granted, everyone wouldn’t switch to that optimal diet if told about it; but it seems fair that they should at least be told the truth so that they could have a choice. But that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

You see, roughly $2 trillion of our $2.7 trillion cost of health care in the U.S. depends on keeping us sick…otherwise, lots of people will be out of jobs. Do you think the insurance companies have an incentive for us to all become vibrantly healthy and disease-free? Not. Check out yesterday’s post on that topic.

This blog was posted on my birthday (2-21-11). Here is a later post on the same topic…one that I posted a few months later (6-9-11) Oz shares colon story; “cancer screening $$ business” gets bigger One more thing; the health-promoting diet is really not extreme at all, certainly compared to cancer treatments for the rest of your life.

If you like what you see here, you may wish to join our periodic mailing list. Also, for help in your own quest to take charge of your health, you might find some useful information at our 4-Leaf page. From the seaside village of Stonington, Connecticut – Be well and have a great day.

If you’d like to order our book on Amazon,  visit our BookStore now.

—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com

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