“Eating” May be Hazardous to your Health!
Taking medical advice on eating may be hazardous to your health. The huge majority of physicians are giving out the wrong advice on what we should be eating! In fact, most of the advice is of no value and can be quite harmful to us. In surveying physicians the number one reason doctors don’t prescribe heart-healthy diets was ‘their perception that patients fear being deprived of all the junk they’re eating.’ Is a prescription for a Plant Base or Vegan Diet too much for our public (that’s you and me) to handle? Let’s take a look at cigarettes. Physicians knew that smoking caused lung cancer long before the Surgeon General said so yet cigarette companies continued to advertise even tho they themselves knew it was a cancer causing substance– the evidence linking lung cancer and tobacco was considered overwhelming. Dr. Greger reported “the tobacco industry’s own research scientists in an internal memo knew this. We now know that “senior scientists and executives within the cigarette industry knew about the cancer risks of smoking at least as early as the 1940s.”
Perhaps it’s our nature. We are an interesting species, the only human species left on Earth. All of our prehistoric brethren have long gone leaving only Homo sapiens (‘wise man’ or ‘knowing man’). But are we really ‘smart’ by not following advice and directions for better health; or is some other factor involved. So why, if we are so ‘wise’, do we continue to do things that we know could be harmful? That is not logical. There is a disconnect between doing the right thing and continuing to go against proven scientific logic. Why do cigarette smokers continue to smoke after they have received a diagnosis of lung cancer? Or more commonly why do patients not follow their doctors advice on giving up meat as a known cause of Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, and Cancer. Why?
It’s our nature. We have to look at the big picture to grasp this wide gap in logic; we have to know who we are and why we do the things we do. Once we know who we are; we can see the logic. We are a creature of Earth. Evolutionary science reveals that all life on Earth is a result of ‘Natural Evolution’. Now we are talking millions of years here and we need to understand that within a very short time (Earth time span) we are eating ourselves to death. Science and logic tells us that producing and eating animal products is killing us and the Earth. Has our cognitive disconnect gotten so far from scientific logic that we cannot see the forest for the trees. The closer we are to nature the longer we live. Eat Healthy, Enjoy Life, Vegan Doc. Aug. 19, 2019
