{"id":6532,"date":"2015-10-29T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2015-10-29T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:20:45","slug":"medical-doctor-returns-to-nature-opens-up-farmacy-using-food-as-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6532","title":{"rendered":"Medical Doctor Returns to Nature, Opens Up \u201cFarmacy\u201d Using Food as Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Robert Weiss believes that a change is coming about in the way we approach health and medicine, or rather a reconnection with knowledge that was shunned with the onset of big pharma.<\/p>\n

He sold his practice in New York and built the first farm-based medical practice on a 348-acre farm in Long Valley, New Jersey. It can be called a \u201cfarmacy,\u201d a place that explores and utilizes plant-based \u201cfood as medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease-modifying tools available to practitioners \u2014 more powerful than any drugs or surgeries,\u201d said Weiss, a doctor of 25 years in Hudson County.<\/p>\n

Untold billions have been put into the production of synthetic chemicals to treat the symptoms of disease, yet the research of plant-based medicine has taken a back seat, despite its ancient history and already known potential.<\/p>\n

The priority is prevention through proper diet, including fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, beans and seeds. It\u2019s \u201cpaleo\u201d plus the best parts of human agriculture before they were turned into processed foods. However, this strict diet regimen can also be used to treat those already afflicted with ailments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not saying if you fall down and break your ankle, I can fix it by putting a salve of mugwort on it. You need someone to fix your fracture,\u201d Weiss said. \u201cI am talking about treating and preventing chronic disease \u2014 the heart attacks, the strokes, the cardiovascular disease, the cancers \u2026 the illnesses that are taking our economy and our nation down.\u201d
\nHe says that the nutrients in fruits and vegetables prevent inflammation, which is believed to be the cause of many chronic diseases.<\/p>\n

Dr. Weiss said the lunch that was prepared during the interview\u2014\u201ca salad of baby kale, radicchio, purple carrots, cucumbers, onions and cherry husk tomatoes tossed with a walnut vinaigrette, followed by eggplant rollatini with tofu instead of cheese, and dairy-free chocolate pudding garnished with raspberries\u201d\u2014contains many naturally occurring drugs.<\/p>\n

The goal is to reduce the reliance on dangerous pharmaceuticals that bring on a host of negative side-effects, addiction, and overdose death. Also, he strives to avoid, where possible, unnecessary surgeries.<\/p>\n

Dr. Weiss points to the case of 90-year-old Angelina Rotella of West New York as model success story. On the night before Christmas Eve, she came to his office in a wheelchair with congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked her, \u2018Do you want me to call 911 and admit you to Palisades General? Or will you let me feed you sweet potatoes and kale?\u2019 Amazingly enough, with the help of her daughter, she chose this,\u201d Weiss said. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t have diabetes anymore and chronic heart failure. She is cooking, sewing and walking around town. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s easy, but she seized the opportunity and she is transformed.\u201d
\nThe prescription was a strict diet including \u201cgrains (such as whole-grain brown rice and sweet potatoes), steamed greens (including kale and spinach), fruit (a big serving of wild organic blueberries is a must) and water.\u201d Her daughter, Angie Rotella-Suarez, calls it \u201cmore than a miracle,\u201d saying her mother stopped taking her heart blood pressure medication within two weeks.<\/p>\n

The plant-based diet was so effective that Rotella-Suarez and her sister took up the same diet and lost 40 pounds, and are no longer pre-diabetic.<\/p>\n

The farmacy already has 90 families that pay a membership fee and volunteer time picking weeds and harvesting vegetables. Part of the mission is to get people more interested in their diet through being involved in the food production.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman health is directly related to the health of the environment, the production of food and how it is grown,\u201d said Weiss, who earned an undergraduate degree in botany at Rutgers College of Arts in Science in Newark. \u201cI see this farm as an opportunity for me to take everything I\u2019ve done all my life, all the biology and chemistry of plants I have studied, and link them to the human biological system.\u201d
\nIndeed, there are more benefits to the act of growing one\u2019s food than the we may realize. According to a scientific study, working in the garden and making contact with soil bacteria can make you smarter and happier, by triggering the release of serotonin in the brains.<\/p>\n

Dr. Weiss is truly following the advice given by Hippocrates so long ago \u2013 \u201cLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.\u201d\"fruits\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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