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D:
Do you have any ideas in your book that runs contrary to conventional thinking
regarding psoriasis?
Outside
of the United States, diet and psoriasis, in many places, is part of
conventional thinking and there's research to back it. In the United
States, not only are they not only doing
research at this time, I haven't seen research done, historically, on diet and
psoriasis. I'll let that be a story for people to wonder about.
More
and more dermatologists will mention diet because they know people with psoriasis
run a much higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Everybody knows
that obesity, diabetes and heart disease clearly have direct connections to
diet.
And
an anti-inflammatory, plant-based, whole food diet for psoriasis will address risk
for heart disease. It will address risk for diabetes. It will address risk for
obesity. But
it's still not at all conventional here.
Thankfully
the University of Michigan, their medical school, even though they are a
federally funded and top ranked medical school, they have developed a pyramid
that is very, very different from what the USDA promotes as a food pyramid. So
I commend their courage for doing that. And certainly the only did it after
they did their own research to develop it. More and more people are hearing
about it but it's still not conventional.
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