FREE Health Transformation TeleSummit

Beginning on April 21

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Hope you enjoy this FREE online health summit!

You may have already heard the buzz about this incredible on-line event with Margot Freitag, called the Plant-Based Transformation Summit. What you may not know is that along with 19 other experts in the field, I have been invited to partner with this extraordinary team to bring you the answers to your questions about plant-based nutrition. You may recognize some of the other 19 health leaders shown here:

TeleSummit SpeakersThe Plant-Based Transformation Summit will inspire and equip you with strategies and practical solutions for achieving your health, weight and fitness goals by fueling your body with plants. Your invitation to participate in this event is a gift at no cost.

Do you or does someone you know struggle with:

  • health conditions that are never resolved, rather managed with medication?
  • maintaining an ideal weight, and the agony of yo-yo dieting?
  • achieving fitness goals and maintaining the physical condition you desire?
  • low energy?
  • confusion about how to nourish children?
  • an ethical dilemma around your love for animals and your carbon footprint?

If any of this resonates with you, read on.

Plant-based nutrition has become an unstoppable global movement. Leading nutrition researchers have determined that there is but one dietary solution for pristine health, maintenance of an ideal weight, vitality and longevity.

Imagine a life where struggling with weight loss is a thing of the past, chronic health conditions have slipped away, and you feel lighter, energized, free and at peace. If you are ready for real change, I invite you to join me, Margot and 19 other professionals.

You’re invited to participate in this event for free. 

(for a limited time)

We know that there is a plant-strong path to help us all live life to the fullest. We also know that our best defense against type II diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension is at the end of our forks.

If you are ready for real change, sign up to receive this great health Summit by the link below. The summit starts this week on April 21; then you will get to listen to two 30-minute interviews each day for ten consecutive days. Click this link to get started.

The Plant-Based Transformation Summit

Promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth,

J. Morris (Jim) Hicks

To learn more about Margot Freitag, click here.

The following six books can be purchased on Amazon for a grand total of less than $60—and will enable you to understand the overwhelming challenges we face—along with the single most-powerful solution of all.

Six-Pack from Hicks—for health, hope & harmony on planet Earth

  1. 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health, powerful new book by Kerry Graff, MD and yours truly
  2. Healthy Eating, Healthy WorldThe “big picture” about food (my first book)
  3. An essential scientific resource: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell; the primary book that influenced Bill Clinton to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet.
  4. Primary cause of cancer is not bad luck. Stop Feeding Your Cancer, by John Kelly, MD
  5. A horrifying wake-up call for leaders. TEN BILLION by Dr. Stephen Emmott
  6. Food choices are the primary cause of our environmental problems, yet our world leaders, scientists & experts are Comfortably Unawareby Richard Oppenlander.

Why should we be eating mostly plants? The “big picture” in 4 minutes.

Want to find out how healthy you are eating? Take our free 4Leaf Survey. It takes about two minutes. eCornell is now using our survey in their plant-based nutrition course.

International. We’re now reaching people in over 100 countries. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter or get daily blog notices by “following” us in the top of the right-hand column. For occasional updates, join our periodic mailing list.

J. Morris Hicks, working daily to promote health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

To order more of my favorite books—visit our online BookStore now For help in your own quest to take charge of your health, visit our 4Leaf Program website, which is now being used by an ever-growing army of enlightened medical doctors who are fed up with “disease care” and want to promote true health for their patients.

Got a question? Let me hear from you at jmh@4leafglobal.com

—J. Morris Hicks, board member since 2012; click banner for more info:

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Dear Mr. Biden, Please open your brain…

To considering ALL potential cures for cancer

Not just the proposed cures that come out of the cancer industry

White House LogoI saw in the news today (ABC and Baltimore Sun) that your “moonshot cancer” project has already received $125 million from a handful of donors, including Michael Bloomberg, and that you’re confident that:

Congress will approve the $1 billion the president requested for cancer research and help pave the way toward cures for all types of cancer — a goal scientists say could be reached by using patients’ immune systems to destroy cancer cells.

Sir, I can tell from your tone in this video that you are sincere in your effort to find the cure for cancer but, so far, I have seen nothing in the news that suggests that you have explored ANY possible cure that has not originated from inside the “cancer industry” — an industry that has zero financial incentive whatsoever to pursue any possible cure that doesn’t involve extensive use of enormously expensive drugs and/or procedures.

After all, without those enormously expensive drugs and procedures, there would be no cancer industry.

You mentioned scientists in the news articles but there is one scientist who you did not mention. That courageous scientist is T. Colin Campbell, PhD, of Cornell University. Surely you have heard of him, as I am confident many others have written to you about him and his “game changing” cancer research. All of those people deserve to be heard, just as…

The world deserves to learn the truth about cancer.

Mr. Biden, the taxpayers of the USA, indeed all citizens of the planet, deserve to hear what Dr. Campbell discovered about cancer in the laboratory at Cornell as early as 1982. I have written about that discovery in my previous four letters to you since early January.

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell

Dr. Campbell’s game-changing discovery. He discovered that cancer can be consistently turned “on” and “off” in laboratory subjects simply by adjusting the level of animal protein in their diets. It turned out that animal protein is the favorite food of cancer cells.

Sadly, the “cancer industry” has never seen fit to formally test those findings in humans. But there have been thousands of anecdotal cases in the past thirty years that suggest that Dr. Campbell’s findings are almost certainly applicable to humans.

And Dr. Campbell told the world about those findings in his 2005 best-seller, The China Study–a book that was praised by President Clinton in 2010 for helping him learn all about the plant-based solution to curing his heart disease. Conveniently, the same diet that could likely be the cure for cancer–has also been proven to reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes and a host of other chronic diseases.

My letters to your office. I sent my first formal letter to your office on January 17 and have followed up with three additional letters, the last one was mounted on an 18 by 24 inch foam poster board shown here.

This jumbo size letter was first rejected by your office when delivered by UPS in early February. I re-sent the letter a week later via USPS.

This jumbo size letter was first rejected by your office when delivered by UPS in early February. I re-sent the letter a week later via USPS.

Response from your office. After four letters over a period of two months, I received one response from your office. Since it didn’t mention anything that I had said in any of my letters to you, it was obviously a form letter that was probably sent to the thousands of people who have reached out to you about this extremely important project.

Sir, form letters are not going to get the job done. All I am asking is that you begin “asking the right question” as your team goes about its investigation. Here is that question:

“In the eleven years since The China Study was published in 2005, why hasn’t the NIH (or any other cancer research organization in the world) conducted a single formal human study aimed at determining if Dr. Campbell’s lab findings were transferable to human cancer patients?”

Conclusion. As I have mentioned in all of my letters to you, we are pretty darn sure that the simple technique used to arrest cancer growth in the lab animals–can also be used with great success in humans. So why not spend a tiny fraction of the billion dollars from us taxpayers to find out for certain?

If not now, when?

If not you and President Obama, then who?

Just think of the millions of lives, the billions of years of suffering and the trillions of dollars spent on chronic disease–also consider the host of environmental improvements that would be the natural result of billions of humans moving away from eating so many animals. We’re truly talking about a win-win for all concerned–except for the “cancer industry” itself.

Sincerely, J. Morris (Jim) Hicks

J. Morris Hicks, promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

J. Morris Hicks, promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

Writer, Speaker, Activist and Board Member of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.

PS: It is my sincere hope and expectation that Dr. T. Colin Campbell will someday be awarded the Nobel Prize for his breakthrough scientific work leading to the end of cancer.

Here is a list of the earlier letters I have sent to your office so far this year. Notice that the last one on this list was addressed to Mr. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. I thought that maybe he would be able to get your attention regarding this most crucial topic.

The following six books can be purchased on Amazon for a grand total of less than $60—and will enable you to understand the overwhelming challenges we face—along with the single most-powerful solution of all.

Six-Pack from Hicks—for health, hope & harmony on planet Earth

  1. 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health, powerful new book by Kerry Graff, MD and yours truly
  2. Healthy Eating, Healthy WorldThe “big picture” about food (my first book)
  3. An essential scientific resource: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell; the primary book that influenced Bill Clinton to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet.
  4. Primary cause of cancer is not bad luck. Stop Feeding Your Cancer, by John Kelly, MD
  5. A horrifying wake-up call for leaders. TEN BILLION by Dr. Stephen Emmott
  6. Food choices are the primary cause of our environmental problems, yet our world leaders, scientists & experts are Comfortably Unawareby Richard Oppenlander.

Why should we be eating mostly plants? The “big picture” in 4 minutes.

Want to find out how healthy you are eating? Take our free 4Leaf Survey. It takes about two minutes. eCornell is now using our survey in their plant-based nutrition course.

International. We’re now reaching people in over 100 countries. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter or get daily blog notices by “following” us in the top of the right-hand column. For occasional updates, join our periodic mailing list.

J. Morris Hicks, working daily to promote health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

To order more of my favorite books—visit our online BookStore now For help in your own quest to take charge of your health, visit our 4Leaf Program website, which is now being used by an ever-growing army of enlightened medical doctors who are fed up with “disease care” and want to promote true health for their patients.

Got a question? Let me hear from you at jmh@4leafglobal.com

—J. Morris Hicks, board member since 2012; click banner for more info:

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Best weight-loss video EVER–in my opinion

By Jeff Nelson, the founder of VegSource

When I received my vegsource.com newsletter today, an article about heart disease caught my eye. More about that article later, but first, I want to share Jeff’s superbly-done, 26-minute, weight loss video with you. ( FYI, “HCLF” means high carb, low fat.)

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Jeff Nelson's Calorie Density Chart

Jeff Nelson’s Calorie Density Chart

Here is my “Six from Hicks” takeaway list from this great video:

  1. Losing weight is a matter of consuming fewer calories than you’re using. To help you do that, I recommend that you print a copy of this chart for your refrigerator door:
  2. We know that we can’t get there by simply restricting calories; its just not sustainable.
  3. The key is changing the kinds of foods we are eating, loading up on whole vegetables and starches, both of which are low in fat. They fill you up and make you feel good until your next meal.
  4. The secret is eating the kinds of foods that fill us up with fewer calories; hence we can eat all that we want and don’t have to worry about eating too many calories.
  5. Jeff’s rule of thumb is that vegetables have about 100 calories per pound, whereas meats average about 1,000 calories per pound.
  6. And, as you can see from Jeff’s chart–bread, chocolate, nuts and ALL oils contain 1400, 2500, 2800 and 4,000 calories per pound, respectively. For best results, you don’t want to make these foods a big part of your daily routine.
Brian, after effortlessly losing over 30 pounds -- on his way to vibrant health and a total weight-loss of 47 pounds; almost 25% of his beginning total.

Brian, after effortlessly losing over 30 pounds — on his way to vibrant health and a total weight-loss of 47 pounds; almost 25% of his beginning total.

My conclusion about weight-loss. Our bodies will naturally seek their ideal weight if we eat the right food for our species. Remember, it’s all about a permanent diet-style shift  in the pursuit of vibrant health. The weight-loss is just a fringe benefit and will take care of itself. I have found that weight-loss diets with arbitrary targets rarely work out longterm–for two reasons:

  1. Once people reach their “target weight,” they tend to gradually drift back to their old, unhealthful way of eating. That’s why over 95% of the people, who “diet” to lose weight, end up putting the weight back on.
  2. Until people commit to at least four months on a “HCLF” version of a whole food, plant-based diet, they never really know how much weight they have to lose. For example, read about Brian (shown here) in the next to last page of Chapter 24 in our book, 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health.

Handy list of veggies.. Since the primary KEY to weight loss is to maximize the consumption of non-starchy vegetables, Jeff provided a convenient list of your choices in this Wikipedia page: List of non-starchy vegetables.

He also suggests that, for best results, 2/3 of your lunch or dinner plate should be non-starchy vegetables–with the starches making up the remaining third.

Frequent weighing. Jeff has found that, for best weight-loss results, people should weigh themselves every day, at least in the beginning–and he provides a study that supports that practice: Study about how often to weigh yourself

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Dr. John McDougall. Much of the information in Jeff’s video was originally developed by our mutual friend and colleague, Dr. John McDougall, who talks about the fact that people all over the world for many thousands of years–have depended on starch-based foods for their sustenance: whole plant-based foods like: corn, rice, beans, potatoes, etc.

The other whole plant foods are extremely important as well, but it is the starches that provide us with most of the energy we need and give us that comfortable, “full” feeling until it is time for our next meal.

What about 4Leaf? Our 4Leaf concept works beautifully with everything that Jeff Nelson and John McDougall have to say about healthy eating. With our 4Leaf Survey, people get an estimate of the percentage of their daily calories that are derived from whole, plant-based foods.

AZ jpg Book AdThe definition of the 4Leaf level of eating is: deriving over 80% of your calories from whole, plant-based foods AND getting less than 20% of your total calories from fat. The average American gets 40% from fat and 10% is the optimal–according to Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Jeff Nelson of VegSource.com.

We find that “below 20%” is a pretty good target for most people. The key is not including high fat items in your routine meals or snacks.

Now for the article about heart disease. In this informative article, Jeff Nelson tells about his father’s experience with heart disease–a story that reinforces the supreme importance of making your new eating habits permanent. As the title of the article states, “Just a little can kill you.” An excerpt from that article:

For a few years he {my father} ate a pretty tight diet. But as time went on, when I’d visit my folks, I’d see that they weren’t really adhering to the lowfat plant-based diet as much as I thought they should. I saw peanut butter, sometimes my dad would eat something oily if they went out for dinner, or eat something he should have avoided altogether at a dinner party at a friend’s home. I told my mom to ditch the vegan mayo that I found in their fridge at one point. — To read the entire article, click here.

The following six books can be purchased on Amazon for a grand total of less than $60—and will enable you to understand the overwhelming challenges we face—along with the single most-powerful solution of all.

Six-Pack from Hicks—for health, hope & harmony on planet Earth

  1. 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health, powerful new book by Kerry Graff, MD and yours truly
  2. Healthy Eating, Healthy WorldThe “big picture” about food (my first book)
  3. An essential scientific resource: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell; the primary book that influenced Bill Clinton to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet.
  4. Primary cause of cancer is not bad luck. Stop Feeding Your Cancer, by John Kelly, MD
  5. A horrifying wake-up call for leaders. TEN BILLION by Dr. Stephen Emmott
  6. Food choices are the primary cause of our environmental problems, yet our world leaders, scientists & experts are Comfortably Unawareby Richard Oppenlander.

Why should we be eating mostly plants? The “big picture” in 4 minutes.

Want to find out how healthy you are eating? Take our free 4Leaf Survey. It takes about two minutes. eCornell is now using our survey in their plant-based nutrition course.

International. We’re now reaching people in over 100 countries. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter or get daily blog notices by “following” us in the top of the right-hand column. For occasional updates, join our periodic mailing list.

J. Morris Hicks, working daily to promote health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

To order more of my favorite books—visit our online BookStore now For help in your own quest to take charge of your health, visit our 4Leaf Program website, which is now being used by an ever-growing army of enlightened medical doctors who are fed up with “disease care” and want to promote true health for their patients.

Got a question? Let me hear from you at jmh@4leafglobal.com

—J. Morris Hicks, board member since 2012; click banner for more info:

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