Your Holiday Gift From a Teacher

[Jzmackenzie]

As a teacher, I am ?hardwired? to share knowledge. My New Year?s Gift to you is what I have learned. Accept it or reject it, just know that it is offered with the only intent to share knowledge so that you can make your own informed choices.

Last night my family both looked at the DVD documentary I ordered from the USA called "Forks over Knives." It refers to choosing the right food instead of accepting surgery to gain a longer and more healthful life. There were many stories about the benefits of healthy eating like reversing heart disease, diabetes, cancer, dementia, Alzheimer's, arthritis, and more. Much of it was reports like the book: The China Study. With over 750 studies on many thousands of people over 35 years, the results found the same answers ? you can control your health.

In the late 1970's, I had read enough to know that I was going to have to take some drastic measures to overcome a mother, aunt, and a grandmother dying of cancer - breast cancer. I stopped eating most animal products until 2010. I was so emotionally beat in January 2010, as I finished my doctoral dissertation, that I listened to a local physician who stated, "At your age you have to eat fish. You cannot get the Omega 3 you need from supplements." I know now that physician could not have been more wrong. My "bad" cholesterol went way up and my energy way down.

Our GTO expat population has recently shrunk as those have departed this life. Become informed and perhaps chose not to become another statistic. Consider viewing the DVD Forks over Knives and/or reading the book The China Study so that you can make your own informed choices. Your physician has many good reasons for lying to you and therefore protecting their social position and their financial basis as both of the DVD and book points out.

Happy Holidays!