Sun, Mar-10-19, 08:56
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Senior Member
Posts: 4,044
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Plan: Very LC, Higher Protein
Stats: 227/186/185
BF:
Progress: 98%
Location: Herndon, VA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cotonpal
Most of us here have gone a different route. Wouldn't it be nice if eating could once again become a natural activity of humans that didn't need professionals to organize and administer?
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In fact, if one started pursuing a healthy eating plan several years ago, there weren't many doctors who could provide the necessary guidance and dispense the knowledge required to improve health. Mostly status quo Food Pyramid and MyPlate in those days with the mantra of low fat, healthy whole grains being the norm. One of the things many have learned is that you don't need a doctor to tell you how to eat, and in fact, that advice depending who you are seeing, could be harmful. I heartily agree that the sharing of healthy eating wisdom and related messages should be widely embraced so that everyone can benefit. Seeing physicians should be only on those occasions when one suffers from a health condition not brought on by uninformed and detrimental eating. I fully subscribe to the scenarios described by Dr. William Davis in Undoctored. Don't get me wrong, it's beneficial and gratifying that the medical community is embracing healthy changes. I believe strongly that these changes need to develop into common knowledge to enable many to benefit without the need of a physician, and it appears to be happening.
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