Dr Bharat Shah CBE is the founder of Sigma Pharmaceuticals in the UK. He says a plant-based diet helped reverse his diabetes, within a matters of weeks. ‘Around 25% of my staff take tablets associated with diabetes. If people follow a more healthy lifestyle the pharmaceutical industry will have nothing to do.’ The industry boss says ‘We live in a commercial world. The lobbying is more powerful than the outcome.’ Time for change.
Dr Shah credits this book with helping him change his diet – and his life. It’s been part of our nutrition resource since Day One.
Social media can be a brutal place… This was the response to a comment we made on an Instagram post last week. Do people want cheap, fast food when they’re in hospital? Or are they currently given limited choices? We stayed quiet after the second comment. Thinking their Instagram name is maybe not just down to luck? Rise above.
Social media’s also a tricky place and we’d hate to lose you… We know some, if not all, of our posts are censored and deleted. Scroll to the end of this blog and sign up to receive this blog directly to your inbox.
The Winner Takes It All – Again. We won a Platinum Award last week in the well-being charities section. Thank you Janey Lee Grace and all involved in the awards, which were held at Hello Beautiful in Bloomsbury London last week. Hello Beautiful charity are featured on our Cancer resource, Janey Lee Grace’s The Sober Club on our Disorders and Addictions section.
Would have loved to have been with you, but we had this small matter to attend to…
On Brand!
Denise’s family at the wedding of her eldest last weekend.
‘The drive toward joy is the drive toward life’ Ingrid Fetell Lee. We’ve added this encouragement to our Healthy Mind resource this week. Beautiful TED talk, viewed 17M+ times.
These bring us joy here at Double-zero:
Isaac’s fresh fruit bowl for his mum, who’s working on getting her body in top condition ahead of punishing conventional cancer treatments next month.
A powerful way to reset our bodies each day. Natural sunlight, barefoot on the grass, deep breaths.
Scented garden flowers.
Joy in a bowl.
Birthdays bring us joy! We’ve already covered this week’s bill from Microsoft – thank you. More bills coming up (as always) – please support this Multi-award Winning resource via our GoFundMe fundraiser here. Thank you.
Meantime Stateside: Ultra-processed food with a discount incentive if you get a flu shot. Zero joy points here.
No joy in this New York Times article either. Could it be that Parkinson’s is a largely man-made disease?
Until we address the pollutants that could cause and accelerate this disease, here’s a great resource help navigate you, or someone you love. Added to our Parkinson’s resource this week.
We enjoyed sampling barbary figs for the first time last week. These ‘prickly pears’ tasted a bit like passion fruit we thought. Lots of health benefits, as shown in this Medicine.net article.
Confession, we didn’t use tongs to handle them…
Traditional medicine called the concept funded by Alice Walton in 2019 ‘Hippie Healthcare’. The Heartland Whole Health Institute was founded on Alice’s principles of ‘focusing on prevention, not treatment. To address mental, emotional and social well-being, not just physical.’
Doesn’t sound like a ‘hippie’ idea to us – nor to the students across the country who flooded the Institute with their applications.
As Dr Shah said at the top of this blog: ‘We live in a commercial world. The lobbying is more powerful than the outcome.’ We think the answer is possibly yes Mr Sanders. Just because everyone is doing it doesn’t make it ok…
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