Fw: Ruth Heidrich -- Defeats Cancer and Osteoporosis

[Guest guest]

Ruth Heidrich -- Defeats Cancer and Osteoporosis

Dr. McDougall’s Comments:

Ruth Heidrich demonstrates the

miraculous healing properties of the body with the right diet,

exercise program, and supportive environment. I know many of you

believe that you are incurably ill. After over 25 years of

practice, I can say without hesitation I have never seen anyone

fail to improve their health when they changed from the typical

American diet to the McDougall diet. The principles are too

basic to be unsuccessful. It would equivalent to seeing a smoker

’s health not improve after giving up 2 packages of cigarettes a

day, or an alcoholic failing to become healthy after drying out.

 

Ruth achieved three dramatic

benefits from a healthy diet and exercise program that are rarely

talked about: “cure” of her cancer, cure of her arthritis and

reversal of her bone loss. The McDougall Program for Women book

discusses in great detail the benefits of a healthy diet and

exercise program for women with breast cancer. Essentially, the

rich American diet is the most important controllable cause of

breast cancer according to many experts. If you believe this,

then it makes no sense to “throw gasoline on a fire.” In other

words, once you get a dietary-caused cancer one of your

fundamental treatments must be a change to a healthy diet. I

published the first study on the dietary treatment of breast

cancer in a medical journal in the early 1980s (the results of

the study Ruth mentioned above). I was considered radical back

then. Over the past 20 years there have been many similar

research papers published in the world’s best medical journals

that come to the same conclusion: women who get breast cancer and

eat healthier live longer (you will find most of these papers

cited in The McDougall Program for Women).

 

Most people consider bone lost to

be irreplaceable. Bone is a living tissue and given the right

stimulus, like exercise, it will try to build itself stronger.

The one thing that prevents this for most people is the highly

acidic American diet (meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, eggs, and

hard cheeses are very acidic). The acids we eat in our foods

must be neutralized – the bones are the primary buffering system

of the body. They dissolve in order to neutralize the acid and

the bones are then washed out into the kidney system (making

kidney stones along the way). After years of such treatment they

become so frail they break with the slightest provocation, like a

friendly hug. A complete discussion of diet and osteoporosis is

in The McDougall Program for Women.

 

Let Ruth Heidrich be an

inspiration for those of you who have little hope and so much to

live for. The greatest medical miracle ever experienced is the

human body properly supported by the right foods and surrounding

environment. Don’t delay; you will never have the opportunity to

live today over again.

 

You can find information on the

cure of arthritis on my web site under “Diet: Only Hope for

Arthritis.”

 

The McDougall Program for Women

book will provide information on the most important and

controversial medical issues facing women today. The McDougall

Quick and Easy Cookbook may be the best recipe book investment

you have ever made. If you need the motivation to get going, then

don’t hesitate to get the 6-video tape series, “Dr. McDougall’s

Total Health Solution for the 21st Century.” This is $5000 worth

of education – the very lectures Mary and John McDougall gave at

their 12 Day live-in hospital-based program. See

www.drmcdougall.com for ordering information.

 

For information on our 10-day

live-in program contact: office

 

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Please Note: The prices for the

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information.

 

 

 

For all my 47 years, I thought I

was extremely healthy! After all, at that time (1982), I'd been

a daily runner for 14 years, had run 3 marathons, and ate what I

considered a very healthy diet -- lots of chicken, fish, and

low-fat dairy.

 

I'd been heavily involved in my

career as a military logistician. In fact, as a management-level

female in a male-dominated world, I was being groomed for a

top-level position in the Pentagon. Little did I know there was

an insidious cancer growing in my right breast. When it grew to

the size of a golf ball, I was rushed into surgery. Even then, I

was sure it couldn't be cancer because I felt so healthy. A

frozen section was done immediately; I was then told it was

invasive cancer, and later, that it had spread, not only

throughout the whole breast but also involved my bones and one

lung.

 

While recovering from the surgery

I saw a newspaper item asking for volunteers for a breast

cancer/diet research study. I ran to the phone, was told to get

my medical records, and got in to see Dr. McDougall right away.

After being shown the results of the breast cancer/diet research

thus far, I was convinced that Dr. McDougall was on the right

track and left his office a low-fat vegan. I also decided against

chemotherapy and radiation, electing to use the vegan diet as my

sole weapon against the cancer.

 

I found the dietary changes very

easy to implement. I already loved brown rice, whole wheat bread

and oatmeal. I just had to add veggies to replace the chicken,

fish, and dairy. My body responded immediately. The next morning

I discovered I'd been constipated all my life but didn't know it!

 

It was at this time that I saw

the Ironman Triathlon on TV and immediately said, " I've GOT to do

that! " Then it hit me, I was now a cancer patient. When I

realized I still felt healthy, I thought this would be an

excellent way to show people that you could do one of the

toughest races in the world, the Ironman Triathlon, on a vegan

diet. I added biking and swimming to my daily runs and since my

diagnosis in 1982, have completed the Ironman 6 times, run 67

marathons, have won over 800 racing trophies, have been declared

" One of the Ten Fittest Women in North America " in 1999, and have

a Fitness Age of 32 although chronologically am 67! I'd also

been working on a Ph.D. in Psychology and soon realized that I

was far more interested in diet and exercise, and so I changed my

field of study and completed my Ph.D. in Nutrition and Exercise

Physiology.

 

Because I was concerned about a

strong family history of osteoporosis, I tracked my bone density

and found that from the age of 47 to my last test at 64, my bone

density INCREASED significantly with each test. I was obviously

getting enough calcium on this diet! I was also very pleasantly

surprised to discover that my arthritis disappeared, that I could

stop taking Naprosyn. This was the drug that had been prescribed

for my arthritis which I'd been told I would have to take for the

rest of my life! My joints today not only are not arthritic, but

are very supportive of my running. Running obviously doesn't wear

out your joints since I've now been a daily runner for 34 years.

And, this diet obviously provides all the nutrients I need since

I've been extremely healthy for 20 years now.

 

My future plans are to keep on

running (and winning) races. My book, A Race For Life, (Lantern

Books, NY,NY, 2000), covers the theory of how the diet and

exercise program works, how to put it into practice, and details

how I went from a cancer patient to a world-class triathlete,

winning trophies in Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Canada, Russia

plus all over the U.S. With this diet and exercise program, I

feel that anyone, at any age, can avoid most of the diseases

afflicting us, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis,

osteoporosis, high blood pressure, obesity, and even impotence!

And, speaking of age, this program comes as close as possible to

reversing the aging process!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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