Last week I sent the LifeNuts challenge to several suburbs of Indianapolis and Cincinnati as well as to their running stores to see who could bring the most participants to challenge Mike in the Indianapolis Monumental half-marathon on November 2. I can't wait until they begin to recruit.
Here's Mike's message for this week.
Sojourn with nature week of July 7, 2013
Sun. Run 10 if it doesn't rain too hard
Mon. Race canoe 3 mi.
Tue. Run 5 or 10
Wed. Race canoe 3
Thu. Walk 5
Fri. Race Canoe 3
Sat. Run 5, 10 or 15
Previous week:
Sun. Ran 5
Mon. Rest
Tue. Ran 15
Wed. Race 3
Thur. Off
Fri. Race 3
Sat. Ran 5
Doctors and Nutrition
In their medical education, American doctors get effectively no training in nutrition.
Therefore they typically fail to use nutrition as a preventive, palliative or a cure for disease. See what hospitals feed their patients, some desperately ill, where the wrong fuel could set them back. Note the junk-food shops some hospitals have for the public. Total ignorance about diet. For some years now PCRM, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has put out Nutrition Guide For Clinicians. This 745-page handbook covers about 100 diseases, symptoms, treatments, outlooks, what to feed the patients, what to tell the families. It is written in medical language and for about six years sent to all second-year medical students in the U.S. Many MDs and scientists have contributed their expertise to this valuable work.
Dr. John McDougall (one of my health gurus, look him up!) tells us in his June 2013
newsletter that California passed SB-380 requiring CA physicians to learn about human nutrition. Over the years, I think since about 1988, we've heard that over 75% of health care expenditures are for treatment for heart disease, stroke, some cancers and diabetes. Our health spending hit 2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.3% of GDP. The World Health Organization's latest report concludes that diet is a major factor in the cause of disease.
T. Colin Campbell of The China Study fame (get that book!) in his new book WHOLE (get this book!) says "profit is the goal at the center of the health care system." He details this in respect to the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the supplement and nutriceutical industry.
So...if public health improved, as with a whole-food plant-based diet, these enormous industries would face huge losses and shrink to insignificance. As a country, that's why we haven't given
diet a chance - yet! As a fat, sickly, short-lived people we are extremely profitable to these suppliers.
Here's Mike's message for this week.
Sojourn with nature week of July 7, 2013
Sun. Run 10 if it doesn't rain too hard
Mon. Race canoe 3 mi.
Tue. Run 5 or 10
Wed. Race canoe 3
Thu. Walk 5
Fri. Race Canoe 3
Sat. Run 5, 10 or 15
Previous week:
Sun. Ran 5
Mon. Rest
Tue. Ran 15
Wed. Race 3
Thur. Off
Fri. Race 3
Sat. Ran 5
Doctors and Nutrition
In their medical education, American doctors get effectively no training in nutrition.
Therefore they typically fail to use nutrition as a preventive, palliative or a cure for disease. See what hospitals feed their patients, some desperately ill, where the wrong fuel could set them back. Note the junk-food shops some hospitals have for the public. Total ignorance about diet. For some years now PCRM, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has put out Nutrition Guide For Clinicians. This 745-page handbook covers about 100 diseases, symptoms, treatments, outlooks, what to feed the patients, what to tell the families. It is written in medical language and for about six years sent to all second-year medical students in the U.S. Many MDs and scientists have contributed their expertise to this valuable work.
Dr. John McDougall (one of my health gurus, look him up!) tells us in his June 2013
newsletter that California passed SB-380 requiring CA physicians to learn about human nutrition. Over the years, I think since about 1988, we've heard that over 75% of health care expenditures are for treatment for heart disease, stroke, some cancers and diabetes. Our health spending hit 2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.3% of GDP. The World Health Organization's latest report concludes that diet is a major factor in the cause of disease.
T. Colin Campbell of The China Study fame (get that book!) in his new book WHOLE (get this book!) says "profit is the goal at the center of the health care system." He details this in respect to the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the supplement and nutriceutical industry.
So...if public health improved, as with a whole-food plant-based diet, these enormous industries would face huge losses and shrink to insignificance. As a country, that's why we haven't given
diet a chance - yet! As a fat, sickly, short-lived people we are extremely profitable to these suppliers.
