How Starchy Foods Help You Lose Weight and Cure Disease

Dr. John McDougall's best-selling book, considered the bible of vegetarian books, has been re-released with new content and improvements to the original translation.
Dr. Lee Ui-cheol, author of 『Slowly and Slowly Natural Plant Diet』, meticulously reviewed the book, and Dr. Lim Dong-gyu, author of 『My Body is the Best Doctor』 and a farmer-doctor, wrote a recommendation.
This book is a kind of whistleblower and self-confession, in which the author, a doctor himself, insists on 'staying away from drugs and surgery.'


The doctor, who weighed 30kg more than his peers, suffered a stroke at the age of 18.
I've been limping ever since.
Why do we gain weight? Why do we get sick? I went to medical school and worked as a doctor for many years, but I couldn't figure out why.
Afterwards, he worked as a doctor in charge of a sugarcane plantation in Hawaii, where he realized the cause of obesity and disease.
In the end, we must honestly admit that modern medicine cannot solve obesity and disease.

First of all, this book is interesting.
Perhaps it's because it takes the form of a personal confession? As a doctor, he shares his experiences on why you shouldn't go to the hospital.
An evolutionary approach to the question of 'how starchy foods help us lose weight and cure diseases'.
A never-ending slew of stories unfolds like a comprehensive gift set: myths about milk and fish, misconceptions about protein and supplements, and the reasons why fat vegetarians exist.
Advertising and broadcasting cannot go beyond the advertiser's claims.
Because of this, it's difficult for us to get beyond the messages sent by the pharmaceutical and food industries and get to the truth.
In this book, Dr. MacDougall clearly and thoroughly explains and dispels the errors in common sense that have puzzled us and made us wonder.

“You’re a doctor, so why do you disagree with other doctors?” I often get asked this question.
The answer is simple:
Because I swore never to accept any financial support from the medical business.
Because I have sworn to only care for my patients and protect them from pain and disease, and not to perform surgeries or prescribe drugs that kill people.

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Contrary to the widespread belief that Paleolithic Europeans consumed mostly animal products, tools for grinding grains have been discovered at Paleolithic sites in Italy, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
These artifacts, which show grains ground into flour, prove that humans were consuming starch in Europe more than 30,000 years ago.
Additionally, traces of sorghum being used as food for as long as 100,000 years ago have been discovered in Mozambique and along the east coast of Africa.
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The warning message that carbohydrates turn into fat is nothing more than a created myth.
No matter how much carbohydrate a person eats, the amount stored in the body is very small.
Animal fat and vegetable fat are completely different.
People who go on a cruise often gain about 3.5 kg in weight after just 7 days on the trip.
It's a well-known fact that buffets tend to gorge you on meat, cheese, oil-soaked vegetables, and high-fat dressings.

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No matter how healthy we are, excess protein inevitably comes at a cost.
On average, over the course of our 70-80 years of life, we lose a quarter of our kidney function due to digesting animal products.
The kidneys and liver work together to compensate for each other, but excess protein only further weakens our body's functions.
Excess protein also damages bones.
For every doubling of protein we consume, the amount of calcium excreted through urine increases by 50%, as protein primarily binds to calcium in the body's bones, where it is digested and excreted.

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When she eliminated animal protein from her diet, her body immediately stopped producing antibodies that attacked her joints.
I have watched that scene many times.
The pain and swelling subsided so quickly.
The body's continued self-healing process relieved the painful inflammation in 4 to 7 days.
This was the result of cutting out refined oils such as cooking oil (differentiated from the oils originally contained in the plant itself) and eliminating animal products from the diet for four months.
70% of patients with arthritis experienced dramatic improvements in health within just a few days.

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Plants are a rich source of complete protein.
Plants alone produce all the proteins and amino acids needed by the world's largest animals.
What do all those huge animals eat - elephants, hippos, bulls, giraffes, etc.?
If plants can adequately meet the needs of these gigantic animals, isn't it obvious that they can also provide protein for humans, who are much smaller than them?
Plants have done everything and can do everything.

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As calcium intake has increased worldwide, hip fractures and kidney stones have also increased.
The United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand are the countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis.
On the other hand, osteoporosis is rarely found in rural and mountainous areas of Asia and Africa, where people do not consume much animal products and high-calcium foods.

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Instead of abandoning meat and eating food straight from the field, vegetarians put protein on their plates, often made from refined soy flour and drenched in vegetable oils.
Instead of butter, they put margarine (trans fat), which is even worse for your health.
Instead of eating regular ice cream, eat ice cream made from soybeans with added fat and sugar.
Even when eating vegetables, I pour olive oil, which is advertised on TV as a "healthy food," on them just like the commercial models do.
Even if they are mistaken, it may be a consolation to them that 'I did not kill the animal.'
But more importantly, we need to know that animals are dying.
It's you.

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