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EngineerGuy

Joined: 02/28/2010

My Story:

Hi folks,

I've lived in beautiful Salt Lake City for the last 6 years (as of 2010).

I had a mild 30's crisis, and adopted the Pritikin Diet, because I thought active life was half over. Now I'm 62, and I barely notice any aging at all.

I had average atherosclerosis, based on my IMT (carotid artery ultrasound). For myself, I felt this was totally intolerable. All cardiac risk factors are exactly, identically the same risk factors as for alzheimer's disease. I need to protect the few brain cells I have!!

I adoped the Pritikin program very strictly for 2 years. I ran 4 miles 7 days a week. I ate more than 5 servings of vegetables daily, but I did not emphasize vegetables, because I thought I needed more calories than veggies offered. After 2 strict years, my IMT had significantly worsened, contrary to most person's experience with the Pritikin program.

I learned of Fuhrman while attending the Pritikin Longevity Center. I modified my program to follow Fuhrman strictly. After 2 years, my IMT cleared up. No more lipid inclusions (fat pockets) in the artery wall. The average thickness of the artery wall thinned (improved) nicely.

My motivation in creating this board is to increase be informative, if you wish to take control of your health. You can decide also to adopt Fuhrman. Please, no pressure. Just relax and look around, and maybe read one of Fuhrman's books, just for the information. Only try to adopt the program if YOU are excited that this is a great idea for YOUR health and for YOUR benefit.

Don't think you could adopt a mostly whole plant based program, with exercise and stress reduction?

Rent the movie Super Size Me (2004). This is the guy (Morgan Spurlock) who ate every meal at McDonalds for 30 days. He ate 5000 calories a day, when he needed 2500. He gained 25 pounds. At the beginning of the study, he felt good all the time, and only felt bad when he was overeating on all that food. After only 30 days, he felt bad all the time, and the only time he felt good, was when he was overeating on all that food! Food can be addictive! Did he condense into 30 days, what many of us experience over many years? We can't imagine giving up our favorite foods, because that's the best we feel all day!

Today I enjoy my Fuhrman diet just as much as I used to enjoy my steak and ice cream diet. But my diet makes me healthy today, instead of robbing me of my health.

Best regards, EngineerGuy

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Hi Dolores, Vick's Vapo Rub. Fascinating !! Best regards, EngineerGuy

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Hi folks,

As we get older, many people have serious oral problems with pockets between the gums and the teeth. This is the major reason so many people lose their teeth. My wife's family has lots of issues with these pockets. We've recently learned of new ways to even reverse pockets. So we do a lot, but it works. This is info for your perusal and consideration. If you ever have bleeding of the gums when brushing or flossing, you have some issues with pockets or gum health.

Fluoride treatments daily. Read the Tip about Fluoride treatments, by spitting but not rinsing after brushing.

Floss daily. 2x/day if working to reverse pockets. Bet you hadn't heard that before.

Floss with toothpaste in the mouth. Why? Same reason you brush with toothpaste.

Use these new mini-brushes between the teeth. They look like little test tube cleaners. G-U-M Proxabrush brand and others, available in any drug store, in many sizes. I use 3 sizes, depending on the space between the teeth. Put toothpaste on the little brush, and slide between the teeth. Push it in and out 10 times or more, in each gap. Spend extra time on each side of a crown. Crowns harbor extra bacteria. My wife has started reversing a pocket with this, going from 7 mm to 5 mm. Her periodontist told her to push the brush from the outside of the mouth, AND the inside of the mouth. I haven't mastered pushing the brush from inside the mouth. My wife can do it easily, now.

Use a waterpic, with hydrogen peroxide or mouthwash. Buy the most expensive waterpic. It works much better than the cheaper models. My wife had a pocket that was bleeding when brushing for 6 months. She was swishing hydrogen peroxide in her mouth daily, without help. As soon as she used the waterpic, first with water, and finishing with hydrogen peroxide, the bleeding stopped. We didn't know about the brushes at the time.

I believe the flossing, between tooth brushes, flossing and brushing and waterpic-ing all do different things. If you opt not do do all of them, I'd skip the waterpik. If you're working to reverse a pocket, you might consider doing all you can.

I'm sure everyone knows that gum health is affected strongly by smoking and general health. Diabetics typically have poor gum health, but get very good gum health when changing to a healthy lifestyle (Fuhrman, Ornish, etc).

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Hi folks,

Probably the most important tip there is: Eat 2 large salads a day.

A salad has lots of greens and vegetables. Romaine lettuce and an assortment of greens, is a very important part. I used to think the benefit was that it mixed with all the other food, slowing down absorption and softening the post prandial (after a meal) peaks. Yes, this is part of the benefit.

But a larger benefit of salads is the nutrition from the greens. For example, folate is a critical nutrient. It is Vitamin B9. The word folate comes from foliage. Guess where it's found in plentiful supply? In green leaves and green vegetables, of course. Plus, of course, thousands of known and yet unknown anti-oxidants and phytochemicals that come along with the vitamins and minerals in vegetables. It is a powerful nutritive cocktail that can't be beat. Really. Having lived it for almost 3 years, I'm a believer.

The dressing cannot have oil or salt. I don't know of any commercial dressings that pass that test. Vinegar (any kind) is great. Amazingly, vinegar is a very healthy food. The Krebs cycle metabolizes the acetic acid. The acidity leaves the body as CO2. The result is that vinegar, while acidic, contributes to an alkaline metabolism (makes the urine alkaline) and helps calcium stay in the bones, etc.

Other dressings can be blueberries (fresh or frozen), 2 tablespoons cashews (raw unsalted, of course) (3 tablespoons = 1 oz), and a tablespoon of vinegar. OR, a cucumber (peeled), a couple tablespoons of favorite seeds, and 3 prunes or other fruit (strawberries are good).

Very valuable to sprinkle beans on a salad. This helps balance the proteins. It is not necessary to balance vegetable proteins, but it is helpful.

Very valuable to sprinkle nuts or seeds on a salad.

My cholesterol lowered 40 points in 1 week, by adding 2 large salads a day. There must have been a lucky variation in readings also, but that is what the tests said.

One daily salad can be blended. Very good to include a tablespoon or two of favorite seeds or nuts, to enhance absorption of all sorts of stuff. Also some beans.

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