Clement - Food IS Medicine, Volume III

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FOODS THAT UNDERMINE YOUR HEALTH

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VOLUME THREE

Brian R. Clement, PhD, NMD, LN

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2014 Brian R. Clement

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Table of Contents

Introduction

QUALITY NUTRITION, or the lack of it, helps to determine not only our own health, but the health fortunes of our future children and grandchildren while they are still in the womb. The nine months before birth shape the rest of a persons life and persuasive evidence points to the mothers nutritional consumption while pregnant as playing a vital role.

The fetal origins of obesity and disease as determined by a mothers absorption of chemicals from food and other sources is a relatively recent field of science, yet its one that has already accumulated a large body of evidence showing that the fetal period of development influences human health decades later.

To illustrate what I mean, consider a study by British scientists who discovered that lab animals fed a typical junk food diet, such as potato chips and doughnuts, gave birth to babies that craved those substances. As a result, they developed body weights 25 percent larger than normally fed animals. This indicates that human obesity, too, can be programmed in the womb.

Its also a finding with much wider implications. Other research has shown that sugar consumption is addictive, altering the biochemistry of the brain to produce symptoms of opiate dependence. So it shouldnt be surprising that we are learning how a range of chemical additives in processed foods have similar dependence-forming and disease-producing effects on the human body.

The cancer epidemic of the twenty-first century can be considered a direct consequence of the synthetic chemicals added to the human diet and the overall environment. Thats not just my conclusion. Scientists in Britain at the University of Manchester did a comprehensive study of cancer in ancient times by examining hundreds of Egyptian and other mummies, and sorting through written accounts of disease incidence by ancient physicians from Greece, Egypt, and elsewhere. Their conclusion, published in a 2010 issue of the science journal Nature Reviews Cancer was that nearly all cancer is a modern, human-made disease caused by diet and pollution.

In this series, I have emphasized the powerful effect that an organic plant-based diet has in disease prevention and recovery. There is also mounting evidence that when a diet consists of a wide variety of health-building foods, it protects cells from degeneration and affords greater potential for a longer life.

For this volume, the third of three, I am spotlighting the foremost dietary hazards to human health as determined by medical science studies. Avoiding non-foods and an ever-increasing group of manmade products are just as important to prevent disease and extend life as the consumption of a proper diet.

Based on the sheer number of studies done showing their connection to illness and disease, consumption of meat and dairy products are the food combinations most guaranteed to trigger health problems in humans. The evidence for that in these pages should be sufficient to convince even the most stubborn of skeptics, unless they are addicted to their denial or else, their livelihoods depend on the meat, dairy, sugar, and fast-food industries.

When reading this volume, be particularly alert to the health destroyers that you may be employing in your diet Removal of those items from your diet ranks as the first and most important step in regaining and preserving your health.

For more than sixty years, we at the Hippocrates Health Institute have encouraged hundreds of thousands of people to apply the dietary principles that we are documenting in this series. Most often, extraordinary gains and well-being are the result. Tens of thousands have actually reported the eradication of major disease.

Eliminating the poisons that often come from the foods you choose to consume can give you a new lease on a longer and healthier life. Dont just take my word for it. Read the following pages of evidence and decide for yourself.

CHAPTER ONE

Meat Products (in general) and Health

AT LEAST NINETEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF CANCERS have been identified as being associated with eating meat, especially red meat. Based on the dozens of studies below, the medical evidence should be considered overwhelming that meat consumption, seconded by that of dairy products, directly contributes to most of the major health epidemics plaguing Western civilization.

Whether meat is eaten raw or in a cooked form, multiple risks to health exist for those who consume it. Pathogens are present naturally in all forms of meat and attempts to kill them with high heat by way of cooking ends up creating new toxic carcinogens. Add to these dangers the huge quantities of hormones, drugs, and other chemicals injected into livestock animals or fed to them, and meat products become the greatest single, avoidable threat to human health and longevity.

Though some studies below recommend the consumption of fish in place of red meat to maintain good health, mostly because of the omega-3 fatty acids in fish, this advice should be counterbalanced by consulting the many other studies that document how a heavy load of toxic metals, such as mercury, can be found in all kinds of fish due to industrial and hyper-consumer pollution of the environment. Furthermore, fish, whether raw or cooked, come with their own wide array of disease-causing concerns.

Beef (red meat)

Acne

Dietary intervention inacne: Attenuation of increased mTORC1 signaling promoted by Western diet Melnik B. Dermatoendocrino. 2012 Jan 1;4(1):20-32. Key Finding: Dietary intervention in acne to attenuate mTORC1 signaling means reducing consumption of leucine-rich meat and dairy proteins.

Asthma

Effect of diet onasthmaand allergic sensitization in the international Study on Allergies and Asthma. Nagel G, et al. Submitted 2009. Accepted 2010;65:516-522. Key Finding: The increasing prevalence of asthma and allergy might be related to diet, particularly in Western countries. A study was undertaken to assess the association between dietary factor, asthma and allergy in a large international study including objective measurements of atopy in 20 countries. High