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I vary the beans used several times a week, an. This rice dish is made with a Thai green curry paste that is sold in Asian markets, natural food sto. Download this easy meal plan designed for your ongoing success. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content —. For all three generations, their health reflected their diet. The first generation immigrants were trim, active, and medication-free into their 90s.
They had no diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, or cancers of the breast, prostate, or colon. Their children became a little fatter and sicker, and most of their grandchildren had lost all of their immunity to obesity and common diseases — in every way of appearance and health, they were full-fledged Americans.
My observations contradicted two basic beliefs I had held since childhood. The first was that as we age, we naturally become fatter and sicker. The second was that a well-balanced diet was best. Before my own eyes I saw fully functioning elders thriving on grains and fruits and vegetables.
With the inclusion of the two other basic food groups — meat and dairy — the progeny failed. The most impressive example of the potential for extraordinary health provided by a starch rice based diet came from some special Filipinos—specifically, family units consisting of an elderly man, a very young wife, and their children. After saving for years and then retiring, single men traveled to the Philippines in search of a young bride.
These Filipino septuagenarians also expected to see their young children grow into adults, and they did. This virility and optimism was from their simple diets. My plantation days left me with a clear understanding of the power of a healthy diet to prevent disease, but the full potential of diet-therapy only became apparent after my research began at the Hawaii Medical Library in Then an even more important breakthrough was revealed to me.
These pioneer scientists reported that once people stopped eating the foods that made them sick, they recovered. They described weight loss, relief of chest pains, headaches, and arthritis.
Kidney and heart failure, diabetes, and many more troubles were reversed. Volumes of research written over the previous 50 years in these library journal pages showed me how my patients could be cured with one big simple solution: a starch-based diet. My first experience with fighting big business came after newspaper headlines in warned the citizens of Hawaii about cancer risks from asbestos exposure — a common occurrence for shipyard workers and for children because of schools built with these materials.
I wrote a letter to the editor of the Honolulu Advertiser asking: why worry about these minor sources of exposure when our citizens are eating hundreds of millions of tons of asbestos-coated rice annually? After milling brown rice to white, the kernel is exposed and easily spoils. To prevent this spoilage the rice was coated with talc powder. Talc is an amorphous form of magnesium silicate.
Asbestos is the same material in a fibrous form. You cannot mine talc without the asbestos. After a yearlong fight with the rice companies, I won and talc was removed from the rice sold in Hawaii, California, and Puerto Rico, and replaced with a coating of glucose. No personal repercussions followed for me. In , I was approached by a citizen-group in Honolulu, which was trying to get an informed consent law passed, requiring doctors to tell women their surgical options when faced with breast cancer.
Massachusetts and California had already passed similar laws. Simply put: a lumpectomy or a mastectomy made no difference in her day of death — the choice was to live with or without her breast. I thought a woman should know the facts in case she might want to choose less mutilating surgery.
The fight took two years in the state legislature. They lost and the nations third informed consent law for breast cancer was passed. There are now 18 states with similar laws.
The personal repercussion for me was that I could no longer buy malpractice insurance. Losing my malpractice insurance meant I lost my hospital privileges. Until this writing I have not told this final chapter of the story — I never wanted others to know that my colleagues retaliated against me for making them tell women the truth about breast cancer.
This was a good match because their founding religion believes in a vegetarian diet and a healthy lifestyle. I am not an Adventist. This hospital was also considered one of the best heart surgery centers in the country. Now that I was working at a respected hospital, I figured, I might be able to get medical insurance to pay for patients to attend my program. I approached several well-known companies. No matter how hard I tried to convince them, the sale was impossible. A representative from one large insurer told me that they were not interested in my approach because it required the cooperation of the patient, and all the bypass surgeon had to do to relieve chest pain was to get the patient to willingly lie down on the table.
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