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\nIt is impossible to know in advance which events will become \u200esignificant milestones in our lives. Any encounter, emotion, object or \u200edate on the calendar has the potential to be life changing.\u200e<\/h2>\n

Of course you might decide to take control of your destiny; make a \u200econscientious decision to create a new habit. After all, everybody<\/strong> \u200eknows that it is possible to create a new one in just 21 days. \u200e<\/p>\n

But is that so? \u200e<\/h3>\n

Welcome to the Information Age! Today it is all too easy to distort \u200efacts and spread half-truths. Many years ago, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, a \u200eplastic surgeon, realized that it took at least<\/strong> 21 days for his patients to \u200eget used to their \u201cnew\u201d self-image. The words "at least" vanished \u200esomewhere between the lines, online, forever lost.\u200e<\/p>\n

According to a recent study in London, an average of 66 days is \u200eneeded to create a new habit. The earliest adapter was able to form a \u200enew habit after only 18 days. The latest adapter, however, took a \u200ewhopping 254 days to form a new habit!\u200e<\/p>\n

So forget the 21 day myth\u2026\u200e<\/h2>\n

I can\u2019t for the life of me recall who recommended that I read \u201cThe \u200eChina Study\u201d but it certainly became a catalyst for change on my \u200ejourney to me.\u200e<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The China Study describes a comprehensive epidemiological study \u200econducted in China in cooperation with American and Chinese \u200escientists. The study focused on the relationship between nutrition \u200eand chronic disease, specifically animal products (protein) and chronic \u200edisease. This book rocked my world. For the first time I became \u200epainfully aware of the relationship between our eating habits and \u200echronic disease. The power of choice at the end of our fork became \u200ecrystal clear: vote daily for or against your health. An absentee ballot \u200eto be tallied daily and your good(?) fortune to be delivered back to \u200eyou some time in the future past\u2026\u200e<\/p>\n

In his book, Colin Campbell presented real life examples over and over \u200eagain which shook me to the core. The link between the consumption \u200eof animal products and chronic disease became increasingly clear. It \u200ewas thought provoking and prompted me to make changes in my life. \u200ePassages of his books \u201cThe China Study\u201d and \u201cWhole\u201d are forever \u200eembedded in my mind:\u200e<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whether they may be in Israel, Europe or the United States, seven out \u200eof ten of all the leading causes of death each year are from chronic \u200edisease. This list includes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many \u200eothers \u201cdone in\u201d by the \u201cgood life\u201d.\u200e<\/p>\n

With the aid of just one independent variable, the percentage of \u200edietary animal protein, scientists were able to completely turn on and \u200eturn off cancer in laboratory mice. The sick were completely cured and \u200ethen made to fall ill again. The all or nothing results were so startling \u200eand characteristically \u201cunscientific\u201d that the team had to repeat the \u200eexperiment time and time again.\u200e<\/p>\n

Many graphs displayed the consumption of milk by country alongside \u200erates of cancer or osteoporotic bone fractures. I was flabbergasted and \u200edismayed by my milk pushing psyche\u2026\u200e<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I found myself sifting through yet more and more data, all culminating \u200ein a similar conclusion. I certainly did not feel like I was being \u200epressured in one way or another to come to any foreseen conclusion. I \u200ewas left completely to my own devices.<\/p>\n

I was sucked into a story, by no means fictional: \u200e
\nLife as a flurry of chronic disease.\u200e..<\/h2>\n

I grew up Jewish in the midst of a devout Christian community. I am \u200eno stranger to proselytization\u200e. Not for one moment did I feel as if I \u200ewas being preached at but rather given data and left to my devices to \u200edraw my own conclusions.\u200e<\/p>\n

I especially liked the analytical tools which the author presented to \u200ethe reader: to facilitate, formulate and judge the data by self.\u200e<\/p>\n

How effective is a health intervention?\u200e<\/h2>\n

Remember these three words: Rapidity\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Breadth \u2022\u00a0Depth<\/h2>\n

\"fast-forward-5-icon-256-LEFT\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Rapidity:<\/strong><\/span> How quickly is change felt?\u200e<\/p>\n

\"fast-forward-5-icon-256\" <\/a>\"fast-forward-5-icon-256-LEFT\"<\/a>Breadth:<\/span><\/strong> How many biomarkers does the intervention affect? Does it \u200eaffect a broad range of symptoms and illnesses?\u200e<\/p>\n

\"iconmonstr-layer-15-icon-256\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Depth:<\/strong><\/span> Is the change powerful and far-reaching or barely noticeable?\u200e<\/p>\n

I fell asleep listening to the recording "Whole". Awoken from a dream, \u200efor once traces remained in my consciousness. Like all dreams, the \u200edream was strange: full of remnants from the past, present and future; \u200epeople and places found not as I was accustomed to seeing them.\u200e<\/p>\n

\"sliders\"<\/a>One thing I can remember clearly. I can relay in vivid detail what was \u200eon the table when Colin Campbell came to dinner, WFPB<\/strong>: delicious \u200edelectable and delightful W<\/strong>hole F<\/strong>ood P<\/strong>lant B<\/strong>ased N<\/strong>ourishment\u2665<\/h2>\n
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Do you\u00a0have any idea what the connection between the elephants and this post is? Please comment below \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/h2>\n
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T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II, MD, The China \u200eStudy, BenBella Books, 2006\u200e<\/p>\n

T.Colin Campbell, PhD with Howard Jacobson, PhD, Whole, BenBella \u200eBooks, 2013\u200e<\/p>\n

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