The Standard American Diet (abbreviated as "SAD") is nearly the EXACT OPPOSITE of the diet found among the people of the planet which live the longest, healthiest lives. The SAD diet is composed primarily of DEAD food, i.e. processed, refined, cooked. It has literally been cooked to DEATH. There is no LIFE left in it.
When medical doctors diagnose the health of the "Average American", their prognosis for the treatment of the disease and your ability to recover from the disease is based on the following statistics:
In the LIFETIME of the average American, each person will chew up and swallow the following quantities of DEAD foods and toxic chemicals:
22500 SOFTDRINKS
12750 lbs. WHITE REFINED SUGAR
30000 CANDY BARS
37500 DOUGHNUTS
12 WHOLE 3,000 LB COWS
6 WHOLE PIGS
3,000 CHICKENS
3,000 FISH
30,000 quarts MILK
30,000 ASPIRIN & PAIN KILLERS
20,000 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
2,000 GALLONS ALCOHOL
(Dr. Richard Schulze, Natural Healing Crusade Course, 1997)
According the John Robbins, in his video, "Diet For A New America", the average American meat eater pours 100 pounds of ANIMAL FAT into their veins and arteries EVERY YEAR! The average American gets very little exercise, is 25 lbs. overweight, has high cholesterol (average level is 200) and will have high blood pressure. Consequently, the leading cause of death in the US is heart disease and stroke. Nearly ONE HALF of all deaths in the US are caused by heart disease! In addition, another 20 percent, which amounts to 500,000 Americans, die of Cancer every year! This number is increasing.
According to Dr. Matthias Rath, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit at Linus Pauling Institute, HEART DISEASE, STROKES, CANCERS, DIABETES, LIVER DISEASE and ARTERIAL SCLEROSIS CAUSE 70 PERCENT OF ALL DEATHS IN THE United States EVERY YEAR!