I will not go silently into the night!

I will not go silently into the night!

I have been wanting to write about this subject for quite a while, and in particular since my Mum sadly passed away in hospital in June of this year.

I have for some time now been leaning toward a plant based lifestyle/diet. I try not to call it a diet because it puts a lot of people off, but it is about what we eat and choosing or controlling what you eat and that is one of the two meanings of a diet.

I have watched over the last 6 months at least a dozen documentaries about what we eat and how it can harm us. I have watched at least a dozen talks/lectures from nutritional experts or Dr's and MD's who are experts in their field, and I have watched at least four times that amount of interviews with experts in their field who have published accredited medical papers and scientific trials etc...

What has amazed me that in the background for the last 30 or 40 years or so there have been mumblings that all is not right with our recommended diets and food tables that are usually published by Governmental departments telling us what is good for us and what we should eat or drink.

All is not what it seems when it comes to meat, dairy, eggs, fat, sugar......and for decades as an example cigarettes.

Do you know how many tests.trials, papers it took before cigarettes were finally exposed for the poison they are?

7000!!

As if 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 ..  medical tests exposing the fact that the product that was advertised as 'Good for you!' is actually going to kill you or give you a life threatening condition that will inevitably kill you, wasn't enough.

Did the tobacco industry know this before we did? of course they did, but money was to be made and at everybody else's expense.

The tobacco industry spent decades fighting it's corner pretending they didn't know, and spent billions convincing everyone to keep on smoking, and they still do, even though they know, and let's face it you know, it is likely to give you a life ending illness.

So where am I going with this? Well as I said I have been watching and learning all about the meat and dairy industry and what they have been upto to keep the wool over our eyes about what is really going on behind closed doors in milking sheds , and on hundreds of thousands of acres of what was once Amazon rainforest.

To start with the animal agriculture industry that brings you your meat and dairy is one of if not the biggest contributors to climate change, and in effect helping global destruction on it's way. 

The meat comes from cattle, cattle has to be reared on lots of land. Cattle needs food/feed, this also needs a lot of land. Where does the animal agriculture industry go for their land? the Amazon rainforest among others! Who is going to miss some trees?...well the Earth for a start as they absorb Co2 and convert it to Oxygen and that in effect helps the atmosphere and reduces the green house effect. They also absorb and hold carbon underground, that is until you cut them down so not only do they no longer absorb the harmful carbon but they also release the carbon stored underground!

But that's nothing apparently as long as you can get a burger for 99p or 99 cents in McDonalds everyone is happy.

Then there's dairy! cheap milk requires a lot of cows to keep up with demand, and lots of cows that are kept pregnant throughout the year and everytime they give birth their calf's are taken away from them for veal if they are male, or for more milking cows if they are female. But hey as long as you get cheap milk why worry about it, after all 'Milk is good for you'..isn't it??

Well that's my point that I am eventually going to get round too.

As it happens the Government in the US and indeed in the UK have been lying to us for years, and not just about the milk, but the meat as well, and the eggs, don't forget all the hens in the dark sheds so we can get our cheap eggs.

It is finally coming out that meat is infact not good for you and likely to eventually start you on your way to heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes (Diabetes or insulin resistance is caused by fat not sugar) mainly down to it's fat content and also it's animal protein content that it turns out can switch cancer on cells within the body.

The same goes for milk, the animal protein in the milk and the fat is a major contributor to the likely hood of ill health in your later years.

The eggs? well the good old cholesterol that they keep trying to tell us doesn't matter..actually does matter, and again is likely to cause your eventual demise with heart failure, heart attack or stroke when your arteries become so congested with cholesterol and plaque build up, the subsequent restriction in blood flow and heart disease  brings on a heart attack or stroke itself. Not forgetting the fat content of the egg itself and it's harmful role.

But I've digressed yet again, as I was telling you about the lies or the deception. Well we have been told for years by the Government via recommended alleged healthy food charts and tables what to eat or drink.

 We have been told to eat a certain amount of meat, cheese and eggs. To drink our milk as it's good for you, as the Calcium within protects your bones and makes you strong (another lie). We have also been told to eat butter at times because it's healthy for us! It's 80% fat!!

Cheese it also 70% fat and addictive, which is why you struggle to stop eating it. It hits the pleasure receptors in the brain and releases happy hormones not unlike drugs but in a milder form, this in itself creates a mild addiction.

But why have we been told all this? Because in the US in particular the Governments job is to promote the American product and indeed the animal industry and the crops the agricultural industry produces i.e. Genetically Modified Soy for cattle feed and for for example for humans sugar beet or corn, which is heavily subsidized in the US so it can be produced cheap and used in thousands of food products cheaply to bring the cost down. What costs? Your health...that's what. The corn is turned into Corn Fructose Syrup which makes them all so tasty and more sugary in taste and more popular to the typical American, and indeed everyone else.

But hang on, what price our health??

The Governments of the US and indeed the UK make money from promoting meat and dairy to its masses, and they also subsidize it so  therefore more farmers produce it thus making it cheaper. Then the Government promote it in recommended food guidelines etc and create increased demand etc..

But surely they are not that devious? Well sadly it gets worse. What happens when you become overweight, obese, get type 2 diabetes from being obese, get heart disease from excess fat and cholesterol??

Well, they have a pill for that! and the pharmaceutical industry would love to sell you one, or indeed the Governments health service.

 Who are the biggest consumers and customers of antibiotics in the World? I hear you ask?.. That would be the animal agriculture industry that has animals so ill and in such poor conditions they have to pump them full of antibiotics!

It's win win for the Government that makes money from the sale of the products we eat or take, be it through taxes. VAT or whatever else and it creates a multi billion dollar industry for the good old US and indeed the UK and no doubt most other larger economies.

But that's not all, who else takes pills? Well we do of course. It's been said that in the US for example that there are more pills on the market for more conditions than ever before...yet America is in worse health than it has ever been, and it's the same over here in the UK.

There is massive money to be made in ill health and in keeping us unwell. In America for example there is a multi billion dollar industry in fitting 'stents' into patients arteries and hearts due to blockages of fatty deposits. Why would the US economy want to lose that little goldmine, look at all the jobs it creates, and all the money it makes.

The astounding thing I have observed in the documentaries I have watched about health and diet, and on the test cases of people who are or have been on medication, is that many are on 4,5, and even 6 or more different types of pills and at great cost to themselves or the health service or insurance company that pays for them.

But most people carry on eating what they did before and thus condemning themselves to an endless cycle of pills and repeated surgeries.

This has become extremely relevant to myself when realising my own parents have been or are indeed on 4-5 types of medication. But will the pills cure them of their ills? Of course not, and that is the problem and the whole purpose of this ridiculously long post...

'It's the FOOD people!' 
Pills and often surgery do not treat the cause, only the symptoms. Doctors and surgeons are effectively frantically mopping the floor trying to clean up the consequences and the flow of ill health and disease, yet failing to try and stop it at it's source/cause the tap i.e. our diets.

What you eat massively effects your health and increases your chances of illness and chronic disease in the future.
Your food or the Western diet is the cause. Changing your lifestyle and diet helps treat the cause, but they don't want you to know that..

 But who are they? They, are the drugs companies who want your repeat business. They, are the Dr's who due to the faults within the medical education system where not given adequate (if any) nutritional training, and so prescribe you with yet another pill and tick yet another box on your medical record to say you have been successfully diagnosed and prescribed a pill for life to help you along. They, are the medical services at private clinics who will help you jump the queue for a princely sum..

Those that don't get to, or refuse to address their health with diet and lifestyle?....

They are the ones who will go silently in the night

and years before their time, including my own Mum because the industry did it's best, and continues to do it's best to spread disinformation or confusion to keep people in the dark, and because the Government and the medical establishment does not treat the cause of the problem and quite frankly doesn't seem to care. 

I witnessed this myself in my Mum's treatment in hospital as she was moved from one department to another when she was seriously ill in hospital with a problem that should not of cost her her life. 

Did anyone show any genuine interest in getting her better AND improving her illnesses once out of danger? of course not. Sadly we are all just another name on a long list of patients in or out of hospital who will make pharmaceutical companies a fortune. Another name on a Dr's register who gets paid per customer and per visit. And another life long (yet shortened one) customer of the animal agriculture industry that will continue to buy into the meat and dairy, and eggs etc are good for you BS.

Well no more, the truth is coming out and it is a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle.

It is finally being recognised by the experts in their field and in the various documentaries out there, that there is an alternative and in many cases a cure for the causes of our grief above.

It has been proven that a Whole Food Plant Based diet and lifestyle can prevent, halt and even reverse most of the top 10 chronic diseases out there, a chronic disease by definition is usually one considered not curable. This includes the No.1 killer out there 'Heart disease'.

No.2 by the way is smoking, which can cause a long line of health conditions including cancer and heart disease itself.

Its been known for years that plants i.e. vegetables can help reduce the chance of certain diseases like cancer by over 50% and in some cancers upto 90%, but we still don't seem to pay attention, and the powers that be don't care either, they continue to feed our children carcinogenic food stuffs that will destroy their health in later life and addict them to junk food in the process. We are also guilty of this ourselves in a World of convenience food, fast food and cheap food stuffs, which are inevitable cheaper because they been subsidised at some point in their manufacture, and are nearly always the harmful components in the product.

There are vast amounts of studies and documented cases of people going on a whole foods plant based diet and coming off most or all their prescribed meds, and often halting and or reversing their chronic disease and conditions including Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Crohns and many more. 

Most of the patients were told they would be on their medications for the rest of their lives and that was it...next patient please.

It was sadly too late for my Mum to revert to a plant based diet and it was never suggested to her by any of her Dr's or specialists.

 I have gone plant based myself for health reasons and to a certain extent ethical reasons with regards to the animals and our abuse of use of them. Also it is now 100% unnecessary and now proven to be detrimental to our health to be consuming them and their bi products.

I will add that I haven't referenced any sources for anything I've said, as it would be exhaustive for me to do so. But if you know me, you know I am intelligent enough to of researched endlessly, and spend endless nights watching, reading and educating myself on the subjects in order to form a valid opinion on the subject.

Please feel free to chat to me about a whole food plant based diet and lifestyle and what it involves, and indeed go on You Tube and Netflix and the Web in general and do your own research to find the truth about the meat and dairy industry and it's effect on our health. 
Also how our current eating habits and the animal agriculture industries effect climate change, water usage and global destruction, and indeed the many documentaries just about a plant based lifestyle and how it has helped so many sick people.

I would highly recommend Nutritionfacts.org as a valuable nutritional resource and as a valuable resource for how a plant based diet/lifestyle can aid illness and disease.

I would also recommend giving the following films/documentaries a watch:
Cowspiracy.
What the Health?
Forks over Knives.
Eating You Alive.
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.
Food Inc.
Vegucated.
Food Matters.
Hungry for Change.....


My Pledge:
(Please feel free to use it yourself)

I am proud to live a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle from now on, and I encourage you to do so for yourself and for your family....I am going to make a change, I will not accept the norm, I will not be part in needless suffering, be it human or animal. I am going to help educate and thus help eradicate needless poor health and suffering where ever I can by spreading the word.

We will not go silently into the night, we will fight, we will share, we will prevail and we will survive!.... a little while longer yet.