It all boils down to this: Eat Your Vegetables, Eat Lots of Them and Eat Them All the Time.
From his other books, Eat for Health and Eat to Live he explains the multitude of benefits that a plant-based diet can provide.
In Super Immunity he zeros in on just the benefits of how his "nutritarian" diet enhances, benefits and strengthens the immune system.
If you you take a closer look at the paleo diet, or more to the point, how cavemen really ate, you'll discover they were not eating as much meat as was believed. There is growing evidence that the whole notion of roasting meat on a stick was not how they ate at all. Between kills they had to rely on what the could find in the environment; namely roots, nuts, seeds and other plants.
This is what our DNA is tuned for.
By providing the body with foods that are rich in nutrients we give it the resources it needs to fight off infections, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
He has never said not to eat animal-based foods but to eat them very sparingly because of the detrimental effects animal proteins have on the body.
Dr. Fuhrman's books have always struck a chord with me because there is something in his arguments that make perfect sense. You just have to look at our teeth and jaws to see that we have much more in common with a cow than we do with a wolf. Or look at the diets of primates, our closest relatives, to see what they eat.
Through his many books Dr. Fuhrman is proving that plant-based eating is what we need to fight many diseases and to live long, productive lives.
Highly recommended.
Dr. Fuhrman's website is: https://www.drfuhrman.com/
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| Joel Fuhrman, MD |
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