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Let me give you an honest, personal account of what happened with a diet I was placed on, when I was about 30 years of age. Aside from being a completely vegetarian diet, I was advised to eat 3 ozs of nuts daily, of various kinds (almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts, pecans, etc.). I usually ate more than the prescribed 3 ozs. By age 35, after 5 years on this diet, my weight was lower than it was when I was 30. I was thin at 30, but was thinner after being on this diet, that included nuts as the primary protein source. I also was advised to eat "up to" 1 oz, each morning, of sunflower seeds, alternating with pumpkin seeds, along with vegetable juice, a serv. of fruit and a few leaves of lettuce. The diet included 2 large vegetable salads each day, and steamed vegetables in the evening. I can only say to you, that on this diet, I achieved and experienced a degree of healthfulness, strength and vibrancy that I didn't think was possible for a human being. Not only was I thin, I was strong as on Ox, could work 12 hours, if necessary, with ease, and my sleep was perfect. Now, nearly 40 years later, I still have the diet, on a 2 page document on which it was typed, by a simple, vegetarian, country doctor, named Dr. Gerald Benesh, who, after having experienced a car accident, which put him in a wheel chair, finally died at age 90. The last photo I saw of him, he had in his hands, in his 80s, two 30lb dumbells, high over his head, had all his hair, all his teeth, and a smile on his face. Had he not had the auto accident, he probably would have lived past 100.
It seems that evidence that consuming organic eggs for breakfast, twice a week, and wild-caught salmon, once a week, continues to strike me as persuasive. I've eaten a vegetarian diet for many years, then recently experimented with poultry, which I've rejected, even, once, trying grass-fed beef, and I rejected it. I'm back eating a couple of egg-based breakfasts a couple of times a week and a serving of wild caught salmon once a week. I remain convinced that this limited consumption of fish and eggs is, on balance, justified. I remain open to old and new evidence for and against my diet.
I can only tell you, that, when I was in my early thirties, and went on a fairly srict vegetarian diet, the doctor I went to, advised me to consume 3 oz of nuts, and 1 oz of sunflower or pumpkin seeds, daily. I was also allowed, though not encouraged, to ingest a raw egg yolk in the veggie juice drink I consumed in the morning, in place of the seeds, 3 of the 6 days (the seventh day, he strongly advised his patients to forgo food, rest, and drink water). Over the course of the years I followed this diet, I "lost" weight, arriving at the thinnest weight I'd ever achieved in my lifetime. It should go without saying, that nuts ought to viewed as a "primary" protein source, and not something with which to entertain yourself, while you continue to consume the usual meat, fish and poultry diet to which most Americans have grown accustomed. If you consume nuts, it's best to diminish your other protein sources by the number of calories you're consuming as nuts, thereby maintaining your weight.
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There is also the real possibility, that as the decades pass, substances, "man-made" nutrients and supplements, or foods, newly discovered in the earth and found to be edible, will have the unique ability of allowing us to continue to consume moderate amounts of those foods that have, until that time, been found to endanger health and shorten our lives. The diet promoted by Dr. Esselystyn, won't be consumed by a large proportion of the human species, for at least another 100 years, because the junk food promoters, will not take these findings without a fight. even if it's a fight that, for a majority of humans, they'll eventually lose. After all, there'll always be many other non-junk-food areas, where children, the naive and uneducated, can be seduced into spending what money they have destroying themselves.