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How Healthy Eating Can Change Your Life - "Let Food Be Your Medicine"

This website showcases the power of healthy eating and the use of clean, whole foods to build vibrant wellness by returning to the nutrient dense, traditional diets our ancestors followed.

These traditional diets come in many forms, but they all include natural, real food which is rich in vitamins and minerals. These clean, healthy foods can act as the best natural medicine, curing all sorts of illnesses and reducing the harmful effects of others.

There are still societies in the world eating diets free of processed, polluted foods. These people enjoy healthy, disease free lives without the intervention of doctors and drugs.

How much clearer could the relationship between healthy eating and disease be?

Beef Cows Grazing

Early in American history, people ate clean, nutrient dense food like grass fed meat, vegetables from their own home gardens, fresh butter, raw milk and cream, free range chicken and fresh organic eggs.

Farm animals lived on a diet of grass and other natural foods, and the meat, milk and eggs that people consumed from these animals was full of nutrition.



Before about 1915, Americans rarely died from heart disease or diabetes. Today, instead of being healthier, Americans experience much higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and cancer thanks to the low fat, high carb dietary advice our nutritional "experts" push and the availability of processed, chemical laden, low nutrient food.

This is the legacy of our industrialized civilization - foods are chosen for convenience instead of nutrition, and government sponsored healthy eating guides are based on data which has no basis in science.

The themes of this site include the benefits of:

  • Whole, real foods: Good health begins with whole, nutrient dense, organically grown foods which are naturally low in carbohydrates. This would include raw milk and other clean dairy products, pastured, grass fed meats, poultry and eggs, organically grown vegetables and the proper preparation of nuts, seeds and other natural foods.

  • The avoidance of artificial, processed foods which rely on chemical additives for flavor, appearance and texture, and genetically modified ingredients for a cheap price. These foods have long shelves lives and even longer ingredient labels. The chemicals used to create these foods aren't supportive of human health, and many have never been tested in the combinations that they are used in food manufacturing.

  • An increased awareness of the profit oriented agendas and dynamics which drive the health advice promoted by the Federal Government and our American medical organizations. Much of this advice is driven by the false assumption that the consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease. This lie is at the core of the healthy eating advice promoted by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and all of the dietary agencies which follow. The misleading health propaganda these agencies promote exerts great influence on how our doctors determine the dietary advice and drug treatments they provide. Worse, it opens the door for the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry to endanger the health and the wallets of the American public through the sales of new but ineffective and often dangerous drugs.

  • Using whole foods as medicine to treat and heal chronic illness and to build and support vibrant health without the use of modern drugs. Most health problems are based in a unhealthy diet. Switching to whole, clean foods can transform illness into vibrant health.


No Fads Here

If you're wondering whether traditional diets are just another fad, remember that whole, clean food has sustained human populations for thousands of years. If traditional diets weren't healthy, the human race would have died out long ago from heart disease and cancer.

Here are some facts you may not know about how our ancestors ate and how our modern diet has impacted our health.

Read on to discover more on healthy eating and real food. I hope you find the information on this website helpful.



Let’s get started. Here are just some of the topics you’ll find here:

Site Map for Health Eating Politics
Here's a site map of Healthy Eating Politics to help you find the information you want quickly and easily.

Why is Nutrition Important For Health?
Why is nutrition important? It’s simple mathematics. Every calorie you eat can affect your body in one of two ways...

The Best Diet for Your Health
What is the best diet for good health? Let's review the data.

Healthy Foods: Connecting What You Eat to How You Feel
Vibrant health begins with real, nutrient dense, and healthy foods.

How Processed Foods Affect Your Health
Processed foods are implicated in a wide range of health problems. Here’s a list of the worst offenders and how to avoid them.

Healthy Food Choices: A Scale to Help Decide
What's the best way to make healthy food choices? This scale will help you decide.

Eating Healthy is NOT Eating Low Fat
Eating healthy does not mean eating low fat. Get the facts here.

Vegetable Gardening
Vegetable gardening and growing your own food is a good way to take control of your food supply.

Food Myths
These food myths continue to linger, even after hard evidence against them is presented. See if you still believe..

Diet Plans Comparison
Some diet plans support vibrant health, some don’t. Here’s an overview of the health effects of some popular diet types.

Healthy Eating Guide: Suggestions for Beginners
Want to eat a healthier diet, but not sure where to start? Read my healthy eating guide for the best changes to make first.

Healthy Eating Tips
Here's a list of healthy eating tips for switching to an unprocessed, whole foods diet.

Healthy Weight Loss: The Basics
Healthy weight loss begins with understanding how your body uses food nutrients to maintain health.

Alternative Health Research: Using Nutrition to Heal
The best alternative health programs use proper human nutrition to heal a variety of disease conditions. Find out more on specific conditions here.

Elevated Cholesterol Levels: Cause for Worry?
Elevated cholesterol levels protect the body and reduce the risk of disease. Don’t believe it? Check out the facts.

Your Blood Test Results: A Basic Guide
Knowing how to interpret blood test results can save your health.

Statins Can Damage Your Health
Statins, drugs used to lower cholesterol, have some serious and dangerous side effects, and can harm health through depletion of CoQ10 and other vital body chemicals.

Diabetes: Types and Treatment
Diabetes is a condition of too much sugar in the blood. There are two different types, and diet is an important part of treatment.

Pre Diabetes Symptoms
A list of pre diabetes symptoms that goes beyond blood sugar readings.

Autoimmune Diseases: Underlying Causes
There are related factors between all autoimmune diseases. This page notes those factors and how to avoid them.

Health Supplements
Health supplements are an important part of any healthy eating plan.

Food Supply Politics
Food supply politics are endangering the supply of clean, whole foods and the effective provision of health care in America. Find out how you can help put a stop to it.

Dietary Guidelines: Who Can You Trust?
The dietary guidelines that nutritional “authorities” endorse may not be as objective and trustworthy as you think. Read this before you follow their nutritional advice.

Resources for Further Reading
A list of resources for further reading about the politics of food and what constitutes healthy eating.

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