Pumpkin Pete wrote:That's an impressive result. How were you able to convince other family members to follow your lead?
Your perceptions do change. I look on fruits and vegetables as 'gifts of nature'. They are colourful, health giving and delicious with minimal of no processing. The highly processed foods on offer pale in comparison.
Through out the years they have always been interested in health and looking into ways of getting it. However, they never really made the change completely. We did do "diets" but it would be lose weight and then put it back on because we all know, once you go ON a diet, you can go OFF.
So anyways, long story short, I would show them documentaries on health such as Food Matters, Fat,Sick and Nearly Dead, and then finally Forks Over Knives.
My Dad said that Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead enlightened him to the importance of vegetables in a diet. However what truly made him decide to eat this way is Forks Over Knives. He watched it and was astounded. He said other information was like "okay" but this documentary had the science to back it up. (The Chiny Study)
So basically, since he had just recently had a... I forgot the terminology but he was in the hospital due to his heart. (Hypertension i believe it was) He was heaving for air and just stopped every once in awhile and took deep breathes and family members were worried. So they sent him to the doctors and his numbers were off the charts.
How the documentary and other media showed how the arteries get clogged and what not, he then decided to make the change.