Can Chronic Disease be Reversed by Nutrition?

What is the Nutritarian Diet? Can it Prevent and Reverse Chronic Diseases? 

 

When faced with disease, many of us don't prefer taking medicines. Medicines are an option but they aren't a long-term solution. So, could you shift the health of your cells by changing your nutrition?

 

In this blog, you will discover just how big of a role nutrition plays in the prevention and reversal of illness. This comprehensive blog with answers to all of your nutrition and diet-related questions:

• The Connection between Nutrition & Chronic Illness
• The Issue with Most Types of Diets
• About the Nutritarian Diet
• What are the G-BOMBS?
• The Importance of Including Nuts & Seeds in the Diet
• Oils vs. Seeds
• Veganism & Deficiencies 
• Is there a natural source of Omega 3 to replace supplements? 
• Macronutrients—too much or too little?

 

Ready to dig in? Let’s go!

 

But before that, here’s what you need to know about the creator of the Nutritarian diet, Dr. Joel Fuhrman:

Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a long-term Board-certified family physician and seven times New York Times bestseller author who has a retreat center in San Diego called the “Eat to Live” retreat. 

His specialty is preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. Dr. Furhman has shown that it is possible to achieve sustainable weight loss, reverse heart disease, diabetes & many other chronic illnesses using smart nutrition. In his medical practice, he keeps delivering this life-saving message to people around the globe.

 

Now, let’s dive right in!

The Connection between Nutrition & Chronic Illness

 

Modern nutritional science gives us the power to treat chronic diseases to a large degree. Access to processed & high-calorie nutrient-deficient foods more readily available at low prices has given rise to obesity and poor health conditions that follow. Things have gotten worse, not better. 

The idea, proposed by Herbert Shelton in the 1950s, that the body is a miraculous self-healing machine and disease is unnatural is imperative. Dr. Fuhrman believes that it's not normal to live with diseases. One has to earn all diseases by living an unhealthy lifestyle. A species can be protected from disease if you feed it properly, taking care of all essential nutrients. This underlying premise will never change. 

 

Studies reveal that wholesome organic plant-based diets can prevent chronic fatal diseases. So making healthy shifts in diet can provide longevity and help in reversing heart diseases, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, reducing daily migraines, getting rid of arthritis, and whatnot.

 

As such, Nutritional excellence can be utilized as a therapeutic modality. It can not only prevent disease but also reverse disease. 

 

So, while we’re living in a world of information with all the research readily available around us, 

 

Why is there still so much confusion about nutrition? 

 

The fast-food and the restaurant industry with billions of dollars to spend on promotion whereas the organic food producing industry doesn't put out  information at that scale. Nobody is promoting those industries.

 

With such a massive level of promotion of processed food and meats; it’s easier to make people buy a full meal quicker for money, rather than try to eat whole foods.    

 

The different types of diets out there and the media also have a role to play here. The vegan diet, the paleo, or the ketogenic diet, etc.  For instance, seeing people lose weight with the keto diet can be tempting to anyone who wants to lose weight.

 

The Issue with Most Types of Diets

As we know, most types of diets are targeted towards either weight loss or reducing cholesterol levels etc. Yet, short-term change doesn't mean that a certain diet is sustainable. Dr. Fuhrman believes that short-term benefits shouldn’t be utilized as a measurement of the success of any diet. Like medications, while they might be a good short-term solution, diets too might have some long-term consequences (such as the shortened lifespan of a person). 

 

Likewise, for various diets, you could give credence & generate a hypothesis for short-term changes. However, you shouldn’t draw conclusions based on short-term changes; instead, you should see the observations drawn from credible researches conducted over decades of people doing these interventions. 

 

For example, when people are given a proton pump inhibitor for reflux esophagitis: in the short run, they feel bet