Despite every effort, medicine can neither prevent nor cure heart disease. The same goes for cancer, diabetes, dementia and even arthritis. As a result, we suffer horribly as we age. Medicine pays lip service to nutrition, yet public policy allows foods depleted of essential nutrients to reach the marketplace. Examples include trans-fats, refined vegetable oils and sugar. Societies which do not eat these foods do not deteriorate as we do! Ironically, the healthy people in these societies have almost no knowledge of nutrition. While we have a great deal, we don‘t use what we know because the food industry and the pharmaceutical companies with the complicity of government distort this knowledge for their own purposes. I have insulin-dependent diabetes, a disease notorious for accelerating heart disease.
When I was diagnosed at age 37, I saw the devastation wreaked by the disease in my doctor‘s waiting room and was driven by sheer terror to search for a solution. For years, my wife and I experimented with diets. We learned that raw vegetables are kinder to the insulin-dependent diabetic than cooked vegetables, but I wasn‘t out of the woods. In fact, I was at my wit‘s end because I couldn‘t keep my blood sugar in the normal range, and the harder I tried, the worse the hypoglycemic episodes I suffered. Then Dr Richard Bernstein published his low-carbohydrate approach, which is the opposite of the medical prescription. I found that the combination of my raw vegetables and his approach of avoiding starchy foods like bread and potatoes worked like a charm. I eat meat and fish with (mostly) raw vegetables and almost no refined foods, and eating this way keeps my blood sugar stable and in the normal