Don Colbert - Let Food Be Your Medicine: Dietary Changes Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

LET

FOOD

BE YOUR

MEDICINE

DIETARY CHANGES PROVEN TO
PREVENT OR REVERSE DISEASE

DON COLBERT, MD

Copyright 2016 by Don Colbert, M.D.

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The names of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Their stories are nonetheless true.

Because each individual is different and has particular dietary needs or restrictions, the dieting and nutritional information provided in this book does not constitute professional advice and is not a substitute for expert medical advice. Individuals should always check with a doctor before undertaking a dieting, weight loss, or exercise regimen and should continue only under a doctors supervision. While we provide the advice and information in this book in the hopes of helping individuals improve their overall health, multiple factors influence a persons results, and individual results may vary. When a doctors advice to a particular individual conflicts with advice provided in this book, that individual should always follow the doctors advice. Patients should not stop taking any of their medications without the consultation of their physician.

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To my colleagues who, like me, continually strive to bring healing to those around us. It is our job to not only teach, treat, and comfort, but to also prevent the sicknesses that cause so much pain and suffering.

Picasso once said, Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I challenge all medical doctors to do more than just treat the symptoms. Find the root of the problem and treat that! Then you can put your head down on your pillow at night and rest assured that your patients are truly better off because you are their doctor.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison (18471931),
light bulb inventor, with over a thousand patents
for inventions to his name

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

YOU COULD SAY that Ive seen the results of this book firsthand. I would agree with you, but I would also say that Ive lived it. It works, and it works well!

I watched Don as he battled through his own illness with amazing results. Begrudgingly, I will admit that I pleaded countless times with him to stop looking for answers that seemed outside the realms of approved medical practices, but Im glad he persisted. What he has learned is life-changing.

We dont have time or space in this book to tell you all the stories of people whose lives were changed for the better because they simply followed the health regimen that Don recommended.

A few years ago, I watched as Don spoke to a crowd of more than 2,000 people. He listed most of the common diseases (i.e., arthritis, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, etc.) and then went on to explain how our bodies usually crave the very foods that fuel our diseases. He didnt focus on what they should not eat, but rather on what happens inside the body when the wrong foods are eaten.

Nobody left the room! They were spellbound. Don was fielding questions left and right until they finally called it a night. There was such hunger for health when people realized what was happening when they ate certain foods.

Now, for the first time, Don has placed this very information right out there for the world to see. Its right here. All you have to do is pick it up and apply it.

And what I love is that his teaching shows readers why and how and is not just a boring list of dos and donts. When you see the short-term and long-term benefits of taking action today, you are compelled to do just that! It will open your eyes.

But let me tell you where it begins. It starts with self-control, and you only get that by practicing it. You make good health choices each and every day. When you sit down to eat, ask yourself, Am I choosing foods that bring life or foods that invite disease and death?

Ive had to do the same. We all do. The health you and I want is within our grasp. It will, however, take good choices to get there.

I can do it, and so can you.

Mary Colbert

YOU CATCH A COLD or the flu, but you develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes (type 2), dementia, hypertension, most cancers, and more health problems from the food choices you make.

That might sound like bad news, but the good news is trumpeting itself to the world: You can make good food choices that control, cure, or manage these very diseases. And not only are the diseases treatable, they are preventable as well!

On a practical level, its a whole lot easier to prevent cancer, Alzheimers, diabetes, heart attacks, and so forth than it is to treat them, but rest assured that we can do both.

That is what this book is all aboutliving a healthy lifestyle that both treats and prevents disease. And that is living life to its fullest. And that is incredibly exciting!

At the gut level, the reality level, people are people. They usually do whatever they want to do and dont change course until the last possible moment. Its human nature, especially when it comes to food and health.

Sadly, that human nature is driving full steam ahead off the cliff of ruined health, disease, death, financial loss, hurt, broken families, pain, and unfulfilled dreams.

However, people do not have to ride the train. They can get off any time they want. But maybe theyve never heard that they are free to disembark. I dont know their reason for staying on board, but this I do know: the longer they wait, the tougher it will be.

My suggestion is to get off right now. Your health and your freedom await, and that is precisely what this book is about.