In this same conversation, he said, "All of us have episodes of cancer in our lifetime. Our bodies, when operating at full strength, successfully fight these bouts with a process that works overnight as we sleep. When we eat meat at night, the body diverts energy from that process to digest the meat. My wife and I only have vegetarian options for dinner."
I was stunned. Could that be true? I found verification from several sources that our bodies fight cancer successfully, on average, six times over our lifetime. But competing operations while I sleep?
In the absence of research to verify, I decided to become an anecdotal story of one. Before I crossed to the "dark side," as my husband calls it (isn't it odd that in our eating culture going full-tilt into plant-based eating is called the dark side?), I began with leaving animal protein out of my evening meal.
No one was more surprised than I to see 10 pounds disappear in four weeks. Effortlessly. And I was over 55 at the time. It was my launch into the vegan world where I find incredible clinical research* that says plant-based eating is actually powerful enough to treat disease that seems to swallow us up as we age.Today I live happily in the dark side of amazing fruits, veggies, legumes and grains. I hope meat-related businesses and lobbies do not succeed in keeping this cure from finding the light of day. I hope, rather, that they find creative ways to move to the dark side and celebrate the potential of plant-based eating.
I thank my acquaintance for his knowledge and caring enough to share. I, too, care that my acquaintances and friends might look into this happy, dark side. Ironically, it is as if the sun came out in terms of my health and how I feel.
*PCRM.org and Forks Over Knives.
Image: PCRM.org.
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