Innovative doctor launches food 'farmacy' after selling his medical practice ... Food heals better than drugs!

Innovative doctor launches food 'farmacy' after selling his medical practice ... Food heals better than drugs!

In a world where curing a disease usually means taking a pill, giving up this practice after years of medical training is nothing short of innovativehttp://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/01/09/doctor-sells-his-practice-opens-up-farmacy-using-food-as-medicine-instead/.



We have known for thousands of years that a healthy diet http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=35129, varied in whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, is the foundation of a vigorous life. Yet we have applied ourselves to discovering drugs that can deal with the symptoms of our diseases. Why? It's simple: so that we don't have to deal with them ourselves. The arguments are there, but with an overwhelming majority of authorities supporting Big Pharma http://bigpharma.fetch.news/, taking an alternative route isn't easy.

The drug industry's goal is not your health

At a glance, the aim of conventional medical practice is to cure illness. This is not an entirely wrong assumption. However, much like the crust of a pie, what's important is what lies beneath, and you can't be sure unless you taste it. This is the case of Robert Weiss, a New Jersey medical doctor who had a full serving of traditional medicine and found the recipe to be wanting.

While he advises that we still seek medical help when we have a serious injury or an accident, the variables change when it comes to chronic diseaseshttp://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=35547. We're discussing heart conditions, diabetes, insurmountable amounts of cholesterol that lead to cardiovascular complications, every known cancer and more of the like. For some of us, they are a distant echo on the news, while others are very familiar with the medication, expenses and toils that come along with them.

Those who have yet to experience these horrors are very likely to experience them in the future. From the all-American diet, to the side-effects caused by pharmaceuticalshttp://www.sideeffects.news/, the industry seeks to create addiction. Their ultimate goal is to create profit, not health http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=35042. You're not persuaded to eat what's right, but what tastes good.

According to them, your diabetes and high cholesterol don't demand you include natural sources of essential fatty acids in your diet, but insulin shots. Dessert today, followed by an injection. While you're at it, there might be some pills that help you. Do they have horrible side effects? There's a pill for those too.

The proof is there, but the industry's not

Dr. Weiss decided to put an end to the vicious circle. He monetized everything he had and created a farm-based medical practice, "Farmacy." Less than 60 miles from the place where he used to write prescriptions, Robert now invites patients to help pick weeds and harvest vegetables.

The truth behind the science of nutrition http://www.naturalmedicine.news/ can no longer be ignored. Attention has now been given to this natural way of curing chronic diseases, with determined researchers investigating and measuring what happens when we eat right.

The effects are literally life-saving http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662288/. You can reduce your chances of developing diabetes by as much as 43% or even cure it altogether. Obesity becomes a non-issue, and heart disease a marginal risk.

Nonetheless, in the eyes of Big Pharma, a healthy diet that contains modest amounts of meat and dairy has an "inherent flaw." Plants, seeds, vegetables and nuts have the same defect. They don't include any pills, nor will they increase your chances of buying pills in the future.

People are catching on

The residents of Long Valley didn't take long to join the green doctor's cause. At the end of 2014, he and his two farmer colleagues had 90 families as active subscribershttp://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/08/hudson_county_physician_open_farm-based_practice_in_long_valley.html to his "Farmacy." As a subscriber, you pay a small fee for the produce, and are given the opportunity to volunteer work on the 348-acre farm. In Dr. Weiss' opinion, volunteering in this manner is the best way to educate people about what's healthy and right for their bodies. The result? People everywhere around the world are disconnecting their auto-pilot http://www.hangthebankers.com/putin-slams-big-pharma-gmo-foods/.

Besides spreading awareness and proposing a great outdoors activity, gardening allows patients to come in contact with natural bacteria, the ones that are beneficial to our immune system, but that are destroyed by sterilization and common cleaning products. The only thing you need to do is get involved.

Sources include:

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/01/09/doctor-sells-his-practice-opens-up-farmacy-using-food-as-medicine-instead/

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/08/hudson_county_physician_open_farm-based_practice_in_long_valley.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662288/

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WashPost goes full retard, claims kale isn't healthy and there's no such thing as healthy food at all

WashPost goes full retard, claims kale isn't healthy and there's no such thing as healthy food at all

On January 17, Michael Ruhlman published an article https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html in The Washington Post, where he attempted to demonstrate the ignorance of American consumers in regard to nutritional matters and healthy eating. The hook for his shabby argument was, as the title suggested, that no food, not even kale, is healthy.



What he meant by this is that food can only be nutritious and only us, human beings, can be healthy. According to him, stating otherwise is a cause for confusion and a means for food production companies to manipulate the masses. Unfortunately, most of Ruhlman's article and especially his word play on "healthy food" are nothing more than a screaming logical fallacy, quite possibly resulting from the author's failure to consult an accurate dictionary on the matter.

The issue with kale...

"I submit to you that our beloved kale salads are not 'healthy.'" This is Ruhlman's bold statement about one of the healthiest greens we know and love. And yes, we can call it "healthy," at least according to every dictionary we have ever consulted. According to Merriam-Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy, healthy can also mean "good for your health." Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/healthy, which defines healthy as "conducive to good health," also seems to agree on the matter. The same holds for the Online Cambridge Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/healthy, as well as for any other dictionary that defines the term.

In the attempt to strengthen a linguistically feeble argument, the WashPost author commits a logical fallacy. He argues that kale is not healthy because "[i]f all you ate was kale, you would become sick." This, of course, is a slippery slope fallacy http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/slippery-slope/. It assumes that just because we believe kale is healthy and we make it a part of our diets, we will somehow end up eating only kale and become sick. As a result, kale is bad for us. Really?

Hold on! It gets worse...

Just when you think you've heard it all, Ruhlman continues by arguing that fat is good and that the American consumers are fools for trying to keep it out of their diets. And he's not talking about nuts, seeds and olive oil, but about full-fat milk and pork cracklings.

Of course, we ought to know that many unsaturated fats are essential to our health http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats/the-skinny-on-fats/ and support several bodily functions. With recent studies, we've even come to discover that saturated fats http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=35106 have a place in our diets. But is it really reasonable to equate a healthy kale salad with pork rinds? Is it a responsible statement that we should replace the first with the latter? On the contrary, Ruhlman's point is a fallacious sweeping generalization http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/sweeping-generalisation/ that attacks everything currently deemed healthy and proposes dubious alternatives purely for their shock value.

Something to salvage

Especially in an article that focuses so much on the subtle meaning of words, a statement like Ruhlman's "[F]at isn't bad; stupid is bad" has absolutely no place. It is because of this appallingly disrespectful attitude, which simply interchanges words like ignorance and stupidity, that we find it difficult to salvage something positive from this WashPost fiasco.

It's a shame, really, that the WashPost author didn't stick to his initial point, but attempted to shock through inappropriate language and poor word-play instead. At the end of the day, we are indeed faced with the issue that food labels http://www.labeling.news/ are becoming increasingly difficult to read. We find ourselves struggling to understand intentionally obscure terms like "mechanically separated meat" or "fat-free half-and-half," and we sometimes take for granted that a product is "healthy" and "all-natural."

In a world where a staggering number of food producers see human beings only as potential sales and flashy advertising addicts, we have to personally double-check everything we eat.

That is the healthy thing to do.

Sources include:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270435.php

http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats/the-skinny-on-fats/

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/

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