Thor's Day: Do you have blind faith in Him?

By Jim Rix

I had thought of doing a sequel to my article “What is the Cause of Heart Disease?” changing “Heart Disease” to “Diabetes.” It would be easy to present real evidence that supports the fact that Diabetes, like Heart Disease, is a consequence of diet. But, in my efforts over the years to promote the health benefits of a plant-based diet, I have observed that most people would rather be put in solitary confinement with an insurance salesman than hear about food’s relation to health.
    There are many reasons for this lack of interest in the subject. However, from what I’ve observed, the most significant reason people find it difficult to consider whether a plant-based diet is healthier than eating animal products is that He is silent on the issue. For example, if you come to Him with a chronic disease, He will not tell you that your diet is the cause; rather, He will lead you to believe that your “heredity” is.
    I find it difficult to accept “The Heredity Hypothesis” for several reasons, three of which are:

1. When my dad was my age he’d been dead of heart disease for 20 years. If “The Heredity Hypothesis” were true, shouldn’t I or at least one of my brothers now be dead of heart disease? Well we’re not.
2. Ten years ago my older brother was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. Seeing him in tears from the pain of diabetic neuropathy was the final impetus for me to go to a plant-based diet. I harped on him relentlessly to do the same. I gave up when he looked me in the eye and said “I can’t stop eating meat!” Instead my brother opted for His advice and continued to suffer while I with the same heredity went to a plant based diet and did not. Then 7 years later my brother abruptly went on a plant-based diet. If I inherited good heredity from our mom who lived into her 90s and my brother inherited bad heredity from our dad, my brother’s change in diet would have had no effect, right? But in two weeks, eating only plant foods, he cured himself of diabetes! (If I may digress—my brother’s revelation coincided with the publication of my book on another subject. I’ve often wondered whether, after reading it, my brother may have thought to himself, Hey, my younger brother may not be so dumb after all, and decided to give my long-standing recommendation a try?)
3. I know a guy, a down-to-earth (lowercase) doctor, a board-certified internist, who cures diabetes virtually every time. When patients enter his live-in clinic, he immediately takes away their insulin and diabetic medications. How can he do this? Because he controls their diet. For the next 10 days he feeds them a high-starch plant-based diet. When they leave they are ALL cured and remain so as long as they do not revert to their old eating habits.

So much for “The Heredity Hypothesis.”
    Of course, I’ve been talking about “Biological Heredity.” Maybe He’s talking about “Social Heredity” whereby chronic illnesses are the result of inheriting bad eating habits from our parents and/or from our pill-popping, high-fat, fast-food society, pushed upon us by high-powered advertising. If so, why doesn’t He speak out?
    He, of course, is the Godlike Medical Doctor. Why does He tell us that biological heredity is the cause of chronic diseases rather than tell us that the consumption of animal products is the cause? The answer is very simply because it’s not profitable. As comedian Bill Maher quipped, “There’s no money in healthy people and there’s no money in dead people. The money is in the middle, people who are alive—sort of—but with one or more chronic conditions. Someone has to stand up and say, “The answer isn’t another pill. The answer is spinach.’” (Well, really the answer is “starch,” Bill, but you’re close enough.)
    And, as Bill alludes, He reports to a Higher Power. “There’s something higher than Him?” I hear you ask. Yes, the reality is that the Pharmaceutical Industry runs the Medical Profession, but that’s a whole other article.
    So there you have it. The time to put your faith in Him is when you have an acute illness like an infection or a broken bone—you will get the best care possible. But, to put blind faith in Him when you have a chronic illness will most likely subject you to endless treatment, which will keep you alive—sort of—for the rest of your life.
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Copyright © 2013 by Jim Rix

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