"You and your loved ones need to know that your health is largely in your own hands, and no one else's. What needs to be understood is that health is the natural, spontaneous consequence of healthful living. It is rarely the consequence of expensive or complicated medical care." ~ The Pleasure Trap
Since our stated aim is that of PromotingNutritional Health & Lifestyle Medicine, it's important that we explain what Lifestyle Medicine is, exactly, and why it is worth promoting.
Perhaps the main reason for this website is to help get the word out that the most common chronic diseases, including obesity, can be effectively prevented and reversed by means of a predominantly whole-foods, plant-based diet.
The following challengeto doctors is a brief, transcribed excerpt from a much longer address given by Dr. John McDougall to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in which he explains:
Why Current Therapies for Chronic Disease Don't Work & Why Lifestyle Medicine Can't Fail
In his first book, The RAVE Diet & Lifestyle, Mike Anderson outlines a practical, cost-effective solution to the health crisis in the United States, explaining how obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer can be prevented and reversed by means of The Natural Foods Diet with Meals that Heal.