Healing Diets
One mistake
made by nearly anyone seeking healing through
food is the assumption that one diet is right
for everyone. A corollary of this premise is the
notion that a diet that worked well for you for
a while will continue to be right for you indefinitely.
On the contrary, each of us has different needs
and idiosyncrasies. What works beautifully for
me may not work well for you, and vice-versa.
Furthermore, one's needs change over time, so
that your "best diet" today may well
need to evolve dramatically over the weeks, months
and years.
An example:
if you go from a diet of mostly pasta, Scotch
and cheesecake, to raw fruits, vegetables and
juices, you might well feel better, lose unwanted
weight, and think you've discovered the fountain
of youth--for a while. But at some point--a point
that will vary markedly for different people--you'll
run into trouble. And many people will then think,
"Gee, I did great on that diet. Why won't
it work now? Something else must be wrong since
my diet is fine."
But this is
usually the wrong conclusion. The physical part
of the explanation for health problems can almost
always be found in the diet. My objective in this
article is to explain some ideas about how each
individual may use the nutritional principles
Dr. Price discovered in order to move toward his
or her health goals. I'm a believer in the ancient
credo "Physician, heal thyself," so
I will start out with my own case and go on from
there to details about my work with patients and
then generalizations I think apply to most of
us.
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