Three years of Plant Based Whole Food living and I am more convinced than ever than ever that diet and health are inextricably linked.  A good diet, avoiding all animal and processed foods, guarantees us good health. Poor diet, regularly eating meat, milk and processed foods, guarantees us poor health. 

Good health means being thin, with heart, lungs, brain, muscles and joints working well.  Poor health means that some part of our body is not up to standard and requires medical or pharmaceutical support to keep going.

While there are exceptions, most pill takers have never given Plant Based Whole Food living a true go.  I feel that my three year apprenticeship has set me up for a life which is going to continue in a long and healthy manner.

Of course I owe huge gratitude to my on-line mentors, including Colin T Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, John McDougal, Michael Greger, Joel Fuhrman, Jason Shon Bennett and many others.  Their articles, research and reports on the vast number of positive results attributable to Plant Based Whole Food living, have kept me informed and enthused.

In the past 12 months my comfort has grown in preparing and eating, at home and away, plant based whole food.  My newly purchased Thermomix has made cooking so much easier. I have learned to fast (not the 5:2 fast, but truly fast), regularly and now look forward to each Monday-fast-day, which impinges not a jot on my lifestyle or activities, to give my system a day of rest and reinvigoration. My weight is very gradually going down and my energy levels are growing.

It appears that people’s aversion to this way of living is turning from one of anger and dismissal, to one of interest and mimicry.  Which is pleasing, but the tide turns slowly.

I dream of the day, when animal products, milk products in particular, are seen for what they are as the harbinger of disease and premature death. We have a 400% higher chance of dying prematurely from heart disease or cancer compared to dying from an accident.  When we and our leaders come to recognise this, they will start policing food as they now police the roads.  

Presently we have freewill to kill ourselves with food, but no freedom to ride a bike without a helmet or drive a car without a seatbelt. People shout at me riding helmetless, as they drink their sweet lattes and munch on bacon and eggs, giving no thought as to which of us is at the highest risk of dying.

An enlightened doctor has now perfected the best prescription for his patients.  It has no side effects, and is efficacious in almost all circumstances.  Read his article here.  Also make sure you read all the comments at the end. 

I know that the plant based whole food way of life seems to be full of admonitions to avoiding certain foods, but the list of forbidden food is short, foods that are processed or contain animal protein.

Once we accept that there are thousands of foods and flavours that fall outside of processed and animal, and acknowledge that they are delicious and most important they are life giving, the small deprivation is nothing in the whole scheme of things.

Watch this very short video to see what eggs do to us. 

Having watched it imagine the two alternative life paths that are available to us all.  One, a path with the certain fear of succumbing to a disease or disability; the other with a comfortable understanding that good health will prevail, without recourse to pills or potionts.

I recently came across this excellent article.  We all want to know why so few people seem to know about the value of living on plant based whole food, and why doctors don't prescribe a change in diet for many illnesses.  Well Dr Howard Jacobson, has put together a very succinct explanation, which you can read here.