I’ve just added another book review to the resources section of this website.
My Dad read about Verner Wheelock in the paper and called me in excitement to tell me. I read the article, had a conversation with Verner about his great nutrition work and have just read his book. I highly recommend you read it too if you want to be healthy but suspect the official guidance we’re given is hampering your efforts.
Healthy Eating:
The Big Mistake
by Dr Verner Wheelock
“The totality of the evidence provides an overwhelming case that the changes in diet that have occurred over the past 40-50 years are the main reason for a huge deterioration in standards of public health.”
In this excellent examination of evidence, Verner looks at heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and the role that cholesterol, sugar and fat play – or don’t play – in each of these. What he finds is very different to the messages we constantly hear.
He concludes that governments around the world, including ours, have failed to devise policies in the best interests of the population, instead acquiescing to pressures from the food and pharmaceutical industries. He thinks that policy is unlikely to change quickly, in spite of the pressure from a group of doctors and nutritionists that has been campaigning for evidence based healthy eating guidelines.
Since those at the top have left us high and dry, Verner is taking a grass-roots approach and runs a local group of people that has turned their back on the official guidelines and now enjoy good health and the remission of diabetes. He ends the book by encouraging us to change the eating habits of the nation from the bottom up, one healthy person at a time.
To become part of this movement, you could join the charity the Public Health Collaboration or simply ignore those in power and Learn to Eat Well.
You can’t drug people into being healthy!
The taste of sweetness, whereof a little more than a little is by much too much.
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