Accept for the moment the idea—as radical as it might be—that if we eat the foods nature intended, our bodies will remain healthy and disease-free for a lifetime. If we equate putting the wrong foods in our bodies with putting gasoline on a fire, what impact is water going to have in putting the fire out? What impact is surgery or drugs going to have on getting rid of disease if we continue consuming the wrong foods?
Have a scab on your arm? Put some antibiotic ointment on it and pick at it. Put a dressing on it and pick at it some more. Spray some antiseptic on it and continue to pick at it. Is it ever going to heal? Atherosclerosis is a scab inside our arteries. Fat and cholesterol are the “pickers.” Drugs, surgery, and supplements are the ointments, antiseptics, and the dressings. Get the picture?
The bathtub is overflowing. The medical community can bail water from the tub, soak up the water with towels, and build the sides of the tub higher, but the only remedy that will solve the problem is simply turning the water off.