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arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Scleroderma
Thyroiditis (resulting in hypothyroidism)
Ulcerative colitis
Uveitis
Vitiligo
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S TAR M C D OUGALLER:
Ruth Heidrich, Triathlete, Hawaii
For my first 47 years of life, everything went well. I felt perfectly healthy. I ran daily for 14 years, including three marathons, and ate what I considered to be a very healthy diet, with plenty of lean chicken, fish, and low-fat dairy. What I didn’t know was that cancer was growing in my right breast; that is, until it grew to the size of a golf ball.
When the lump was detected I was rushed off to surgery to have it removed. Recovering from the surgery, I was given the bad news: The tumor was malignant. Later, the doctor informed me that the cancer had spread throughout the breast and into my bones and one lung. The prognosis did not look good.
While paging through the newspaper during my recovery I saw a call for volunteers for a breast cancer study involving diet. I signed up. After meeting with Dr. McDougall in 1982 as part of that study, I left his office with instructions to follow a low-fat, vegan diet. That diet changed my life. I am now cancer free.
Since my diagnosis three decades ago, I have completed the Ironman Triathlon six times, run 67 marathons, won more than a thousand racing trophies, and been declared “One of the Ten Fittest Women in North America.” At age 74 I had a “fitness age” of 32. I’ve even written a book about my recovery:
A Race for Life: A Diet and Exercise Program for Superfitness and Reversing the Aging Process.
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S PONTANEOUS H EALING FROM C ANCER
Cancers begin and are spread by unhealthy components of a meat- and dairy-centric, oil-laden Western diet. Vegetarians are generally healthier and have lower cancer rates compared with others living in the same communities.
The problem is the same as with heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis: Repeated injuries from unhealthy foods trigger further injury, followed by attempts to recover through inflammation, which, when chronic, is implicated in all stages of cancer: initiation, promotion, and progression.
Explanations for the micro-pinprick injuries that initiate and promote cancer focus on radiation and chemicals, as well as substances found in tobacco products and foods. Thankfully, however, the fact that a cancer has formed doesn’t mean that the body will abandon its attempts at spontaneous healing. Cancer is not a time for losing hope. It is a time for heeding the body’s message and taking action. Ruth’s recovery from cancer is an important example of how the body never ceases in its efforts to heal and stay healthy, even after very serious damage.
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Reported Spontaneous Regressions (Healing) of Common Cancers
Brain
Breast
Colon
Kidney
Melanoma
Prostate
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C HRONIC D ISEASE D OES N OT H AVE TO B E F OREVER
Unhealthy eating habits, along with smoking, drinking coffee and alcohol, and taking drugs, have been known since antiquity to be at the root of many human maladies. The challenge comes in recognizing theselifelong behaviors and habits as the source of repeated injury to the body, then putting a stop to them, once and for all.
Change can be challenging, but understanding the source of suffering makes it considerably easier. It all begins with a simple understanding of one basic truth: The diet that best prevents disease, best supports the body’s innate healing mechanisms, and best promotes sustained weight loss is a low-fat diet based on starches, with added vegetables and fruits, and with no animal products or free oils (like olive or corn oil). A giant step toward health and spontaneous healing is yours for the taking. You should expect big results after making these big changes to a starch-based diet.
You will find more than a hundred similarly fascinating Star McDougaller stories and the
Rheumatoid arthritis
Scleroderma
Thyroiditis (resulting in hypothyroidism)
Ulcerative colitis
Uveitis
Vitiligo
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----
S TAR M C D OUGALLER:
Ruth Heidrich, Triathlete, Hawaii
For my first 47 years of life, everything went well. I felt perfectly healthy. I ran daily for 14 years, including three marathons, and ate what I considered to be a very healthy diet, with plenty of lean chicken, fish, and low-fat dairy. What I didn’t know was that cancer was growing in my right breast; that is, until it grew to the size of a golf ball.
When the lump was detected I was rushed off to surgery to have it removed. Recovering from the surgery, I was given the bad news: The tumor was malignant. Later, the doctor informed me that the cancer had spread throughout the breast and into my bones and one lung. The prognosis did not look good.
While paging through the newspaper during my recovery I saw a call for volunteers for a breast cancer study involving diet. I signed up. After meeting with Dr. McDougall in 1982 as part of that study, I left his office with instructions to follow a low-fat, vegan diet. That diet changed my life. I am now cancer free.
Since my diagnosis three decades ago, I have completed the Ironman Triathlon six times, run 67 marathons, won more than a thousand racing trophies, and been declared “One of the Ten Fittest Women in North America.” At age 74 I had a “fitness age” of 32. I’ve even written a book about my recovery:
A Race for Life: A Diet and Exercise Program for Superfitness and Reversing the Aging Process.
----
S PONTANEOUS H EALING FROM C ANCER
Cancers begin and are spread by unhealthy components of a meat- and dairy-centric, oil-laden Western diet. Vegetarians are generally healthier and have lower cancer rates compared with others living in the same communities.
The problem is the same as with heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis: Repeated injuries from unhealthy foods trigger further injury, followed by attempts to recover through inflammation, which, when chronic, is implicated in all stages of cancer: initiation, promotion, and progression.
Explanations for the micro-pinprick injuries that initiate and promote cancer focus on radiation and chemicals, as well as substances found in tobacco products and foods. Thankfully, however, the fact that a cancer has formed doesn’t mean that the body will abandon its attempts at spontaneous healing. Cancer is not a time for losing hope. It is a time for heeding the body’s message and taking action. Ruth’s recovery from cancer is an important example of how the body never ceases in its efforts to heal and stay healthy, even after very serious damage.
----
Reported Spontaneous Regressions (Healing) of Common Cancers
Brain
Breast
Colon
Kidney
Melanoma
Prostate
----
C HRONIC D ISEASE D OES N OT H AVE TO B E F OREVER
Unhealthy eating habits, along with smoking, drinking coffee and alcohol, and taking drugs, have been known since antiquity to be at the root of many human maladies. The challenge comes in recognizing theselifelong behaviors and habits as the source of repeated injury to the body, then putting a stop to them, once and for all.
Change can be challenging, but understanding the source of suffering makes it considerably easier. It all begins with a simple understanding of one basic truth: The diet that best prevents disease, best supports the body’s innate healing mechanisms, and best promotes sustained weight loss is a low-fat diet based on starches, with added vegetables and fruits, and with no animal products or free oils (like olive or corn oil). A giant step toward health and spontaneous healing is yours for the taking. You should expect big results after making these big changes to a starch-based diet.
You will find more than a hundred similarly fascinating Star McDougaller stories and the
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