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You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit.
If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple,
I'll buy you a new car.
— Harvey Diamond
The McVegan Dietary Lifestyle
(Food As 'Medicine' for the Human Body)
Disclaimer: Read it!
The Perfect Human Diet for Ultimate Health
If you want to skip directly to Dr. McDougall's website, please do so.
https://www.DrMcDougall.com/
Or, below you will find a pretty good summary overview of the information and our take on it all.
Skimming & scanning the information below might be a good idea, as it will help you take in
the information quicker, rather than having to spend a lot of time at McDougall's website, which
is fairly extensive and comprehensive, so it can be somewhat daunting at first. You will also
know what to look for once you are there and be able to deal with the information with less
overload and it might not be so overwhelming for some.
The second Sub-Protocol of CHP – The Clean Health Protocol, is
the McVegan Dietary Lifestyle, or McVeganism (our terms). Also known as
Starchitarian / Starchetarian / Starchivore, or The McDougall Diet, and/or The
McDougall Plan (John McDougall's terms), it is a natural, herbivorous / herbivorean lifestyle
and food-style diet that every human animal should be consuming for optimal health and well-being.
It is naturally illness-curing, body-healing, and health-promoting. (Dr. McDougall has helped
thousands of people get well and be well)
Note that "diet" used here is not meant in the sense of "dieting", but as a particular selection of food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health, especially as designed or prescribed to improve a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease. See: www.dictionary.com/browse/diet
McVeganism involves a natural (ideally organic) wholly plant-based diet, high in starches /
carbohydrates (which are NOT "fattening"), low fat, low sugar, low salt, NO "concentrated"
and/or processed food stuffs, and NO Oils.
Yes, you read that correctly. NO Oils!! As in no concentrated vegetable oils of any kind, consumed in any manner, including as ingredients or as part of the cooking process. (yes, even olive oil, coconut oil, or whatever other oil you have been told is "healthy") Concentrated vegetable oils (and other concentrated foods) are cancer-causing and/or cancer-promoting, and/or poor and ill health causing and promoting.
There are many "fad" diets, and this is not one of them. To describe it as such is
specious, at best. Those who claim that low-carb, high-protein diets (which are "true diets" and
"true fad diets") are what people should be eating, for losing weight, or for better health, are
sorely mistaken and misguided in the extreme. To a person, all of the "low-carb/high-protein"
(fad) diet promoters /
creators are overweight and/or in poor health (or dead). These diets are unhealthy and even
dangerous. Whereas those who suggest a McDougall-like high-carb, low-fat diet are lean and
healthy. That should be a CLUE.
As merely one example, Robert Atkins, creator and promoter of the Atkins diet, was about 60 pounds overweight at the time of his death, and a medical report issued by the New York medical examiner's office a year after his death showed that Atkins had a history of heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension. His widow refused to allow an autopsy. We surmise that was because it would have shown how unhealthy he was, and all of the heart-related, and diet-related, health issues he had, which would have negatively affected his "legacy". (and future income, for his heirs, no doubt) Unfortunately, we will now never know for sure. But we cannot help but wonder if this was a "where there is smoke, there is fire" scenario.
For the record, Atkins died in his late seventies after a fall and head trauma. One would think that 'they' would have made attempts to show how healthy he was, otherwise, at the time of his unfortunate passing. (we fully expect that the others like Atkins will most likely die of ill health, probably related to their unfortunate dietary habits — and they are taking millions down with them)
In A Nutshell
Something very telling about John McDougall is that, although he has published books about his
'diet', he also offers almost all of the information for free on his website. That is how you
can tell that he is more concerned with helping people than making money.
Caveat Emptor on others.
Generally speaking, following is a quick overview of the primary 'tenets' of McVeganism and what you can eat, and cannot / should not eat:
- Eat as Organically as possible, no GMO's, etc...
- Primarily Eat Starches / Carbohydrates:
- Potatoes (All Varieties, Including Sweet Potatoes & Yams —
Baked, Boiled, Steamed, Mashed, ... — NOT Fried!! (in oil)
AND NO butter, margarine, sour cream, 'bacon bits', etc...) - Rice (Brown, & White)
- Beans & Legumes
- Whole Grains
- Starchy Vegetables, like Corn
- Potatoes (All Varieties, Including Sweet Potatoes & Yams —
- Non-Starchy Vegetables (of course — Research "Eat the Rainbow")
- Fruits (Some; Occasional Dried)
- Occasional Nuts, Seeds, and Soy-Based (Tofu, Tempeh, Miso, Non-Dairy Milks)
- Avocados (Occasional – High in Fat)
- Low Salt
- Low Sugars
- NO Animal Based Foods (Meat, Dairy (& Cheese, etc.), Eggs, ...)
- NO Oils (ZERO — In Cooking, Raw, & As Ingredient, ...)
- NO Concentrated or Highly Processed Foods
(Fake Meats & Cheeses, Seitan, Soy Protein Isolate, Pea-Based, ...) - No Supplements (Except, Perhaps, Vitamin B12)
- Some Sunlight (For Vitamin D)
- Some Light Exercise
All of this information can be found in more detail and in-depth on Dr. McDougall's website. Along with explanations about why it is the truth. You can (and should) spend hours reviewing the information there. He also sells books and cookbooks. The better you know it, the stronger will be your understanding and conviction in doing it, incorporating it as part of your life, lifestyle, and food-style, and staying the course. It is easier for some people than others. But, no matter how difficult it is for you, because you will be changing habits created over many years of eating, that have basically become a food addiction, if you can stick to it, it will become easier and easier over a short amount of time, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be easy, and you won't even think about eating like your old, unhealthy ways. (you naturally won't want to)
There is a "quick" learning book offered for free at the McDougall website titled,
Dr. McDougall's Color Picture Book: "Food Poisoning". It is a nice, short, quick
reference, that you also might want to read and study early on. McDougall created it so that
people could easily and quickly get an understanding of the "McVegan Dietary Lifestyle".
https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/cpb/
Now it is time to visit Dr. McDougall's website and continue your learning journey.
https://www.DrMcDougall.com/
A Final Note About Veganism
(without the 'Mc')
Although the word 'vegan' and its associated concept and definition originally meant a
"strict" (more natural, more pure) vegetarian diet of no animal flesh (of course; and, yes, that
does include fish and other sea food) or animal products and by-products (eggs, dairy, etc.),
over the years the definition has changed and expanded.
Veganism is now (better) defined as an ethical lifestyle that not only includes being a strict vegetarian, as opposed to an Ovo/Lacto Vegetarian, but also to encompass more modes of non-violence in one's life, such as to not wear fur or leather (belts, shoes, purses, etc.), and to use not only Cruelty Free products (those that are not tested on non-human animals), but Vegan products (those that also do not contain animal products, like lanolin, "protein" (usually animal's blood), etc.). Unless one engages in a fairly extreme lifestyle, you cannot be 100% vegan in that sense, since so many things use animal products in them (like blood as a dye set in clothes, and other uses of "the whole animal"), we can all only do the best that we can do, and continuously try to do better over time.
[ Personally, I would like to see High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and GMO-based foods and the like also be excluded as not "vegan"... I think this will eventually occur as people become more aware, informed, educated, etc., and the term naturally expands in definition as it has over the last several decades ]
Reducing the unnecessary violence in our lives, as much as possible, and in as many ways as possible, and making our footprint on Planet Earth as small as possible, can only help to make each of us a better person, and thereby help to make the world a better place. Again, like most things, it is a journey and not a goal, or, perhaps better said, "a journey-based goal". Perhaps one day "McVegan" will encompass this expanded definition, as well. We hope so. (see the links page for more information — if you are particularly interested in this area, check out www.RightsActivism.org)
Now you have been familiarized with the CHP Protocols. Usage of these protocols and information
should be all most people need to achieve Health Restoration from almost anything that
ails them. We hope that this includes you, the reader, if you are in need of such help. Please
let us know if CHP – The Clean Health Protocol helps you with your health.
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