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Regular for me was a once a week effort.<\/h2>\n

My normal was abnormal: \u200epebbles, small and hard stones. This was my reality for some forty \u200esomething years. When our daughter was suffering from abdominal \u200epain, we took her to every specialist and did every test available. As a \u200ematter of fact, to this day we never got a definitive answer only the \u200epopular I.B.S. label.\u200e<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s modern world amasses data: detailed information on every \u200esubject and experts ready to scrutinize every bit. When our expertise \u200eis directed inward, however, we fall short of the mark. Internal signals \u200eregarding our feelings and our health go undetected for the most part, \u200eso detached are we from ourselves.\u200e<\/p>\n

When we are feeling under the weather, we will automatically look \u200etowards our physician for answers. We fail miserably at translating the \u200esignals that our wondrous bodies constantly send. We require the help \u200eof a translator. No good are we at foreign languages and our body\u2019s \u200elanguage is of the most foreign kind.\u200e<\/h3>\n

\u200eOur body speaks routinely.<\/h2>\n

We choose, whether it be a conscious \u200echoice or not, to ignore the signals that our body consistently sends. \u200eSurrounded are we by masters and brilliant minds but far too few are \u200ethose who can teach us the body\u2019s language.\u200e<\/p>\n

Once I was waiting to see a neurologist. There was a new immigrant \u200ewaiting with me. She was an older woman, an English teacher, but she \u200edid not know a word of Hebrew. As the doctor did not know much \u200eEnglish, the woman asked me to come in with her to translate. She \u200ebegan to tell him about the handful of pills she took on a daily basis \u200eand of the horrific headaches she was suffering from. Without being \u200ean expert on any subject, it was clear to me that this poor woman was \u200esuffering from painful side effects that her medicinal cocktail was \u200egiving her. \u200e<\/p>\n

It is a sorry state of affairs that our physicians are terribly lacking in a \u200enutritional background. Medical schools devote precious few, if any, \u200ehours to this important subject. Much time is devoted to science of \u200eprescription of medication both to ease the patient\u2019s pain and perhaps \u200ecure his affliction. All too familiar are the stories of the dark side of big \u200epharma<\/a> and its efforts to woo the physicians to promote more of its \u200emedications. Between us, who is going to get rich by promoting \u200eglorious greens?\u200e<\/p>\n

On my journey I sought health or rather a prescription to health.<\/h2>\n

\u200eWhen I met a doctor who endeavored to rule out food based pain and \u200eallergic reactions, I was highly skeptical. After reading a book by a \u200ephysician who claimed that today\u2019s foods are severely lacking \u200eminerals, vitamins and antioxidants, I immediately began taking a \u200ehandful of colored supplements: an assorted collection of pills at every \u200emeal. Although at first I was unaware (I too did not speak the tongue \u200eof \u201cBody Talk\u201d), the immediate reaction was more pain and more \u200ecomplaints.\u200e<\/p>\n

My journey has taught me a valuable life lesson.<\/h3>\n

\u200e\u200e\u200e\u200eOur choices today have a huge bearing on the outcome of \u200eour life: our \u200ehealth, our happiness and our legacy. These \u200eare not necessarily \u200elife changing ones; they may be \u200emundane every day choices that we \u200emake daily.\u200f<\/p>\n

What did \u200eyou put on your plate today?<\/h2>\n

Did you venture?
\nDid \u200eyou \u200ebreathe?
\nDid you laugh?
\nDid you dance?
\nDid you love?\u200e<\/h3>\n

We write our story daily and it begins with what we put on our plates. \u200e<\/h2>\n

I am enclosing a short insert from the book \u201cWhole\u201d. It is a very \u200e \u200epoignant and moving narrative. It is my hope that you will take \u200ethe subject to heart and give it your full attention.\u200e<\/p>\n

By the way, should you inquire as to the health of my stones \u200e\u200e… Today regular for me is a daily affair, at least two or three \u200etimes. It is effortless and the product is soft, supple and a fine \u200ea specimen of health! \u200e<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u200e If The WFPB Were A Pill<\/h2>\n

\u201cJust how healthy is the Whole Food Plant Based Diet (WFPB) diet?<\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s pretend that all its effects could \u200ebe achieved through a drug. Imagine a big pharmaceutical company \u200eholding a press conference to unveil a new pill called Eunutria. They \u200eunveil a list of scientifically proven effects of Eunutria that includes the \u200efollowing:\u200e<\/p>\n

\u2666 Prevents 95% of all cancers, including those \u201ccaused\u201d by environmental \u200etoxins \u200e
\n\u2666 Reverses even severe heart disease
\n\u2666 Prevents nearly all heart attacks and strokes
\n\u2666 Prevents and reverses Type 2 diabetes so quickly and profoundly that after \u200ethree days on this drug, it\u2019s dangerous for users to continue to use insulin<\/p>\n

\u200e\u200e\u200eWhat about side effects, you ask?\u200e<\/h3>\n

Of course there are side effects. They \u200einclude:\u200e<\/p>\n

\u2666 Gets you to your ideal weight in a healthy and sustainable fashion
\n\u2666 Eliminates most migraines, acne, colds and flu, chronic pain, and \u200eintestinal distress
\n\u2666 Improves energy
\n\u2666 Cures erectile dysfunction (that makes the pill a blockbuster success all by \u200eitself!)\u200e<\/p>\n

Those are just the side effects for individuals taking the pill. There are \u200ealso environmental effects:\u200e<\/p>\n

\u2666 Slows and possibly reverses global warming
\n\u2666 Reduces groundwater contamination
\n\u2666 Ends the need for deforestation
\n\u2666 Shuts down factory farms
\n\u2666 Reduces malnutrition and dislocation among the world\u2019s poorest \u200ecitizens<\/p>\n

How healthy is the WFPB diet?<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine anything healthier \u2013 or \u200eanything more effective at addressing our biggest health issues. Not only \u200eis WFPB the healthiest way of eating that has ever been studied, but it\u2019s \u200efar more effective in promoting health and preventing disease than \u200eprescription drugs, surgery, vitamin and herbal supplementation, and \u200egenetic manipulation.\u200e<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u200e\u200e\u200eIf the WFPB diet were a pill, its inventor would be the wealthiest person \u200eon earth. Since it isn\u2019t a pill, no market forces conspire to advocate for it. \u200eNo mass media campaign promotes it. No insurance coverage pays for it. \u200eSince it isn\u2019t a pill, and nobody has figured out how to get hugely wealthy \u200eby showing people how to eat it, the truth has been buried by half-truths, \u200eunverified claims, and downright lies. The concerted effort of many \u200epowerful interests to ignore, discredit, and hide the truth has worked so \u200efar.\u201d<\/strong> \u200e<\/p>\n

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Whole, Rethinking the Science of Nutrition, (Dalas, \u200eTexas, U.S.A., :BenBella Books, Inc., 2013), 7-9 \u200e<\/p>\n

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