Disease Prevention Is As Easy As Picking Up An Apple!

Disease prevention can be as easy as adapting a healthy, whole-foods, vegan diet into your life. Of course, it will take more than one apple, but you get the point!

Eating a vegan diet isn't just about saving animals from torture or saving the environment, but it's also about preventing common diseases.

Although it's not widely publicized, eating a healthy, low-fat, high fiber, high healthy carbohydrate diet will help you avoid many dangerous diseases that might have seemed inevitable.

In fact, even if your family has a genetic history of a certain disease, you will need to trigger those genes with an environmental factor in order for them to occur.

One of the biggest environmental factors that triggers genetic disposition for a diseases is diet.

So yes, I am saying that if you avoid animal products, you can avoid disease as well. And, it's not just me telling you this. This is based on tons of research. The China Study is one of the most well known books on research done on the benefits of a plant-based diet.

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn is a highly successful doctor who found that by eating a plant-based diet full of whole grains, you can prevent and reverse heart disease. Heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States, and it affects women as often as men.

In a similar study, Dr. Dean Ornish treated patients with a lifestyle diet change that enabled them to reverse their clogged arteries, affectively reversing their heart disease. Just to be able to prevent heart disease effectively is exciting, but to be able to reverse its affects is mind-blowing.

Yet another study was done on the positive effects of eating a vegan diet. In this study, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) actually found that the vegan diet beat the ADA diet in lowering heart disease risk for diabetes patients. Crazy, right?

Dr. James Anderson found that by eating this same type of diet, based on whole plant foods, diabetes patients were able to minimize or completely eliminate their need for insulin medication. This was true of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. For people who have to take daily insulin medicine or shots, this is eye-opening and exciting.

One of the first studies to ponder the question of reversing clogged arteries was The Framingham Study. This particular study looked at the population of a town outside Boston to uncover the risk factors for heart disease, and found that one of them was nutrition. It opened eye's about the affect of blood cholesterol levels on the risk for heart disease. These risks increase our chances overall for disease prevention.

A great deal of research has been done about the effects of animal protein on our bone health. Milk's main protein is casein, and it has been found to leach calcium from the bones and increase bone fracture rate. This is an entirely different story than most people hear. Milk, in fact, does not do a body good.

You can do more research for yourself and learn more about how better nutrition increases disease prevention. I find it very heartening to know that most of what we will face later in life, or what many are already facing, is preventable. Heart disease is the most common reason Americans die, and if we can make a difference in just a few people, I think it's great news.

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