According to lifestyle medical doctors Joel Fuhrman, Milton Mills, Brooke Goldner and Alan Goldhamer, who use evidence-based nutrition to reverse disease, as well as cardiologists Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., Kim Williams, Baxter Montgomery and others who study the diet/disease connection, heart disease is “a foodborne illness,” a “toothless paper tiger that need never happen.”
Over 600,000 Americans suffer from this disease because of the S.A.D. or “standard American diet.” Too little is being done to promote true prevention over profit-driven treatment.
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Thanks for the insight. It's nice to hear that I don't need to take statins.
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