Re: Nutritarian links

For me I am trying to avoid coming to any conclusions, I don't think I will ever understand things fully, not in this life anyway. However I think the body can go into healing states by fasting or eating pure food, and this helps too.

Here's a pointer of how a purely plant based diet can help - just examine the first few minutes of this video, about Doctor Crow, who is Esselstyn's friend:

http://www.veoh.com/collection/EatForHealth#watch%3Dv16836615897Gw5Xa

I text summarized the 1 hour version of the video in my blog, here's an extract from minutes 1-6 of this part for those who may not be able to view the above video or don't have time etc:

X ray images showing improvements in arteries.
1 min
Doctor Joe Crow, who replaced Esselstyn. http://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff_directory/1/staff_581.aspx had a heat attack. Nearly died. Could not use stents. Got depressed. Esselstyn and his wife went round his place. They told him about plant based diet. New angiogram (slide shown to audience - "reversal of coronary heart disease). Completely fixed. Unbelievable. It sounds like he gave Esselstyn a big slobbery kiss, which Esselstyn is not used to, lol!
6 mins

Seeing as Joe Crow still has a pulse (23 years after his heart attack), people can contact him via his website link above to see if this is true, and ask him what he eats now.

Esselstyn is VERY strict on only eating only plant based stuff in his heart attack reversal procedures (which were 100% successful on 18 people written off as "walking dead"). Conversely here is a mention of someone (Jack LaLanne speaking of comedian George Burns) who smoked, ate drunk and generally did not do things right all his life, but still lived to a ripe old age:

"Jack was recently asked if he thought he’d live to be 100. His answer was to the point. “I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living! I have friends who are in their eighties, and now they’re in wheelchairs or they’re getting Alzheimer’s. Who wants that? I want to be able to do things. I want to look good. I don’t want to be a drudge on my wife and kids. And I want to get my message out to people.” He smiled. “I tell people, I can’t afford to die. It would wreck my image.”

He was once asked about George Burns, the famous comedian who made it to 100 though he smoked cigars, drank alcohol, and was not health oriented. Jack, it turns out, knew George Burns well, and he answered, “George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That’s the key right there. It starts with your brain.”

Jack LaLanne is a man of great accomplishments. But perhaps his greatest achievement is that this once painfully shy and sick young man has learned to love people and to love being alive."
(from The Pleasure Trap, by John Robbins) Tweet