The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Dr. Joel Fuhrman demonstrates the connection between the standard American diet, disease and early death. In chapter three of his book, he graphs the relation between the percentage of unrefined plant food and the percentage of deaths from cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. It’s an amazing graph. A straight line showing that the more raw vegetarian food a population consumes the lower the death rate from those killer diseases. He backs it up with 27 pages of footnotes and studies!
Dr. Fuhrman is a firm believer in fasting to restore health by letting the body detoxify from the toxins of our artificially colored, flavored, preserved and processed food. In chapter four of his book, Eat to Live, Mr. Fuhrman links both Aspartame and MSG with severe headaches and other toxic effects.
In chapter two, Dr. Fuhrman applauds the revised dietary guidelines published in the July 27, 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association. These guidelines encourage Americans to eat ore “unrefined” plant food and less food from “animal sources.” They are supported by eight mainstream authorities including the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Division of Nutritional Research of the National Institutes of Health.





