Vegan Diet and Food as Medicine

Dietary Benefits A Vegan Diet and Healing of The Body

The China Study, written by T. Colin Campbell in 2005, is a report of his observations of the Chinese lifestyle, finding that the the population following a vegan diet had a much higher life expectancy. This case supports the fact that longer, higher quality of life is expected with a diet that avoids all animal based products, but it also connects with the body and its ability to function more efficiently and to outlive the norms of an average animal product consumer. This myth of animal products, such as eggs, meat, and even milk, are helping with growth and strengthening the body has been surfacing the world for ages, but those products have actually been proven to be a health hazard and to worsen it by causing issues such as cancer, heart attacks and disease, along with many others. There are many ways of treatment of disease, one of them is believed to be with food, which is a natural source of it's needed vitamins and nutrients that can be easily attained through a vegan diet. Today, heart disease is the number one health issue in the United States. The vegan diet does not only reduce your risk of health issues, but boosts energy, and reduces the amount of unhealthy fats that enter your body, helping with with obesity which is also a major health concern nowadays. Also, many hesitate to switching to a vegan lifestyle because of the the misconception that it is a strictly raw and tasteless diet, when it in no means has to be.

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