Perfect Health: The Natural Way

By Mary-Ann Shearer

Summarized with permission of Benbella Books. All rights reserved.

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The Diet Industry

The diet industry in the U.S. is worth $35 billion. Large food companies provide most of the mainstream dietary information to the public. Dietetics at most universities is funded by these corporations and pharmaceutical companies. In schools, children are taught the food pyramid and how eating all things in moderation will keep them in proper health.

People have access to a lot of information, but most of it is conflicting and confusing. Nearly anyone can write a book. The internet is an effective tool for research but also a tool for confusion. Anyone with an opinion, product, or fad to market can have a Web site, newsletter, and range of products to sell.

To clear up the confusion, Mary-Ann Shearer developed these three guidelines:

1. Remember the K.I.S.S. principle.
2. Check out the research.
3. Learn to listen to one's body.

GUIDELINE 1

Remember the K.I.S.S. Principle: "Keep it straight and simple."

• Eat food that the human body is biologically designed to eat.
• Health is freely available to everyone.
• Use basic common sense and make better choices.
• The body will repair and heal itself if it is fed the right, natural foods.

These principles go back to the creation of man. Genesis 1:29, "Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.'"
During the time of Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), these principles were also being applied. Known as the father of modern medicine, he regarded the human body as a whole organism.

Hippocrates treated his patients in a holistic manner.

• Eat a proper diet.
• Get plenty of fresh air.
• Pay attention to lifestyle habits and living conditions.

Most recently Dr. T. Colin Campbell published findings from the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted to date in his book, The China Study. The research took twenty years, Cornell and Oxford University, and thousands of people in China through the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine (an academy that focuses on preventing disease).

GUIDELINE 2

Check Out the Research

Often people, books, and magazines make claims about research but they seldom reveal where their research came from and who paid for it.
For years, the dairy industry has been telling people that milk, milk products, yogurt, and cheese will prevent osteoporosis (brittle bone disease), yet the countries that consume the most milk and milk products have the most osteoporosis cases. The countries that consume the least dairy have the least brittle bone disease. Look at independent research based on real people.

 

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