Medical Vampires

In my last two articles, I discussed Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s groundbreaking study that concretely linked poor diet to poor health. More specifically, he proved that consuming a diet based on over 10% animal protein leads to all kinds of chronic health issues, from heart disease to cancer, to diabetes types 1 and 2, and obesity. 

Although he has clearly proven his findings and had the courage to go against the suggested dietary recommendations, mainstream medicine has certainly not jumped on the bandwagon. Wouldn’t it make sense that, upon being presented with such convincing evidence, the medical community would hail his China Study as one of the greatest life-saving discoveries in medical history? 

Well, if you are naive, then you would expect the answer to be yes. But, if you apply some logic to this issue, you would quickly realize that the medical community does not want you to be healthy under any circumstances. 

Not true, you say? Could it simply be the rigorous, impossible standards that science places on proof in order to deem it a fact? Why is simple observation not enough? Well, if it were enough, we would clearly be able to observe that eating a diet full of processed, dead foods leads to all types of health problems. But medicine doesn’t want you to see this. They want you to believe that there is no such link; that everything is according to chance or genetics. The bottom line is that they want you to believe that getting sick is beyond your control.  

With this mentality, it’s no wonder that people run to the doctor in the hopes that his toxic magic potions will fix their problems. The medical establishment wants you to remain the ignorant victim that allows doctors to bully them into questionable treatments which are not only usually unnecessary, but that create side effects that are worse than the actual illness. They also use a one-size-fits-all approach and will not tailor-make a treatment plan that goes beyond the parameters within which they were taught to conform to. 

Recently, here in Beit Shemesh, we lost a young mother of nine children to breast cancer. She was only 39 years old. Now some may say that this is life nowadays, and she did all of the treatments that the doctors told her to. I respond with an adamant NO! This is NOT life nowadays, and we need to stop being so complacent about it. We are fully in charge of our health, and by giving up that control, we place ourselves in grave danger. 

People, wake up! As Dr. Campbell and many others like him have already proven, poor diet is the number one cause of disease and death in the world. It is so unfortunate that most of our diets are made up of dead foods. Eating dead foods leads to death, a whole ‘lot quicker than eating live foods. 

I’ll tell you what Hashem wants. He wants us to take care of our bodies; the bodies that He gave us! He wants us to eat foods that promote life and health, and to stop eating foods that are literally killing us! In this unfortunate mother’s particular case, I am not sure what she ate, but I can tell you that the religious diet around here is nothing short of disgusting. 

It is full of meat, chicken, canola oil, processed foods, dairy, junk foods galore, oily pastries and breads, and maybe a sprinkling of salad. Maybe. Just look at how we eat on Shabbat. In fact, just this morning I received an email from a halacha website that discusses the question regarding if we should say a separate blessing for soft drinks after hearing kiddush on Shabbat. Did you understand the question?? Why are soft drinks okay? Because it’s Shabbat? We should destroy our bones, our kidneys, and lead our children into diabetes and obesity in honor of Shabbat?? What kind of insanity is this?! 

One has to look around and wonder: how many sick people wouldn’t be sick if they just ate a proper diet? My husband’s grandmother, a”h, suffered years of kidney dialysis before she passed away. Why did she need dialysis? Could it have been the terrible diet she ate during her lifetime? A diet filled with processed foods, meat, sodas, and dessert at every meal? Of course, I can’t blame her, because that is the way everyone was taught to eat. No one thought anything of it. 

G-d gave us free will. If we choose to ignore the wealth of information that’s out there, then we’ll have to accept the consequences that we created.  

Rabbi Arush writes clearly in The Garden of Healing that sickness comes to tell us that we need to repent. Very often, the required repentance is to simply stop our bad eating habits and dangerous lifestyles, and begin to properly keep the commandments relating to health as he outlines in the book! 

This leads me to the bottom line… 

We can’t bring back the loved ones that we’ve lost. But we most certainly can and should prevent even one more casualty from happening. Let’s stop the dietary ignorance. Let’s get serious about our health – for our sake, and especially for the sake of our children. 

We should all merit living long, happy, and healthy lives, the way Hashem intended, Amen.