But don't just take my word for it. There are hundreds of scientific studies to back this up, including
The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conductedi^56 as well as studies of long-lived healthy
populations where significant percentages are healthy at 100 years of age^57. Nutritional research
consistently shows that this diet is the healthiest and most successful way to eat.
Let's take a closer look at each of these success results—why each works, and how each builds on
the next.
Success Result #1: Detoxify Your Body
Detoxify your body from the accumulation of substantial amounts of animal protein, saturated fat,
cholesterol, refined carbohydrates, and added salt, oil, sugar and chemicals that cause people to
become overweight and experience health complications.
Of all the success results, this is the one that most people think least of. To many people it doesn’t
even sound like a success result. It may not sound exciting or sexy, yet it’s the most important,
because all other results depend on it. You cannot lose weight naturally; improve your health and
longevity, slow aging and so on if your body is constantly overloaded with toxic substances.
The Standard American Diet, in combination with the modern chemical-filled world we live in, has
overwhelmed our bodies with toxic substances from animal protein, cholesterol, and saturated and
trans-fats to chemicals and other cancer-causing substances. This has reached a point where every
person who lives in an industrialized nation has an average of 700 synthetic chemicals in his or her
body,^58 89 - 99% of which got there through the diet.^59
Every spoonful of nutrient-poor food and every sip of a soda exposes our bodies to countless toxic
substances—whether they are artificial sweeteners and colors, preservatives, hormones,
antibiotics, refined carbohydrates, or other dangerous chemicals. Animal products are the worse
culprits, because the fatty tissue found in animals attracts and concentrates toxic chemicals. So, the
further your diet moves up the food chain, the higher the concentration of these chemical threats.^60
While our bodies come fully equipped with a sophisticated filtration network (including the skin
and lymphatic, urinary, respiratory, and gastrointestinal systems) to remove potentially toxic
substances, a growing body of evidence suggests that the sheer volume of toxins found in the
Standard American Diet (and industrial world) cannot be properly processed by our bodies. So
instead of being eliminated, the toxins we take in through our diet become concentrated in our fat
(^56) The China Study – The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted, Benbella Books 2005.
(^57) Healthy at 100 – John Robbins
(^58) Fitzgerald R. the Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health. New York, NY: Penguin; 2006.
(^59) McDougall J. A Cesspool of Pollutants: Now is the Time to Clean-up Your Body. McDougall Newsletter. 2004;3(8).
(^60) Parkinson A. Basic Body Detoxification and Cleansing. Canton, MS: Anthony Parkinson; 2007.