The Rave Diet & Lifestyle

By Mike Anderson

"A brilliant program. I highly recommend it." Neal Barnard, M.D., author of Program for Reversing Diabetes

The Rave Diet & Lifestyle describes a diet and lifestyle program that is designed for weight loss as well as the reversal of a wide range of diseases, including heart disease and diabetes, and the prevention of our common cancers. The author explains why Americans cannot lose weight, why modern diets don't work, and shows you how to reach your ideal weight by going back to the old-fashioned foods Americans used to eat, before losing weight was a problem. The book describes the relationship between diet and disease and explains why the standard American diet is responsible for the two largest killers in America today, cardiovascular disease and our common cancers. It also explores the relationship of diet to other diseases and how government policies are promoting diet-related diseases. For more information go to RaveDiet.com.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Anderson
• Release date: Mar 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9780972659062

Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson is a senior employee of one of the world’s oldest private banks. He considers himself fortunate to have stumbled across this extraordinary true story and has been relentless in his pursuit of the tale of Britain’s only successful war crimes prosecution and the parallel lives of Ben-Zion Blustein and Anthony Sawoniuk. 

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A Diet of Disease

No matter how strange something is, if you give it enough time, it becomes normal. Americans have now accepted heart disease, cancer and other degenerative diseases as a normal part of the American way of life.

One could not design a diet more efficient at clogging arteries than the American diet. Between animal foods and refined foods, our arteries don’t have a chance. What amazes me is that everyone doesn’t die of heart disease.

The war on cancer does not take place in hospitals or laboratories. It takes place inside you and battles are being won or lost every day, depending on your diet.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within a chance to go to work. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Prize Winner

The Laws of Heart Disease

Before 1900, heart disease was virtually unknown and so rare it wasn’t even included in standard American medical textbooks.[29] Today, heart disease (cardiovascular disease) is the scourge of the nation. Practically everyone has heart disease, children are now taking heart medicines, and it’s the biggest killer in the nation – killing more than half the population – yet it’s the single most preventable major disease there is. Heart disease has become so prevalent that drug makers are now working to make cholesterol-lowering drugs non-prescription so taking them will be as easy as taking an aspirin. They've already made it that way in Britain.

While everyone is concentrating their efforts on selling drugs that treat heart disease, very few are talking about curing the disease. And almost everyone ignores the fact that a disease that kills over half the population and maims even more is solely the result of a bad diet.

And yet, heart disease can be easily cured with a change to the RAVE Diet. Heart disease isn’t just preventable – it’s reversible, no matter what your age. Heart disease immediately responds to changes in diet, as the body begins to heal itself once the onslaught of bad foods stops.

According to William Castelli, director of the famous Framingham Heart Study, entire populations have reversed heart disease by changing their diet. Before World War II, about three-quarters of the people in Belgium suffered from heart disease. During the German occupation, however, soldiers trucked every scrap of meat and all the livestock out of Belgium to Germany. Within two years, their rates of heart disease and cancer plummeted in the Belgium population, because they had no animal products to eat. These diseases also vanished from the landscape in every other country where Germany removed livestock, including Holland, Poland and Norway, as well as northern France. Unfortunately, as farm animals returned to these countries after the war, so too did heart disease.[30]

Incredulous as it may seem, advocates of high-fat diets will argue that meat-based diets can prevent and even reverse heart disease. The problem with such an argument is that there has never been a single human being who has ever arrested or reversed heart disease on meat-based diets.

Reversing heart disease is actually a very simple and inexpensive thing to do and there are literally millions of Americans dying to have their heart disease reversed on meat-based diets. Since there are so many people on high-protein diets, one would think that out of those millions, just one person would have reversed his or her heart disease – even by accident!

You have to ask yourself, Why haven't the high-protein people recruited someone with severe heart disease and reversed it? If they had just a single individual who reversed heart disease on their diet, he or she would become the poster boy for that diet overnight – and their publicity machine would have a field day. Why hasn't this been done? It would only take six months and they would have publicity to last them years. Then everyone could eat steak and eggs for breakfast.

I say to these people, stop the arguments and stop citing so-called scientific studies. Show me a real human being who has reversed heart disease on anything other than a RAVE Diet.

Long silence.

In fact, no one has ever arrested or reversed heart disease on anything but a RAVE Diet.

Of course, trans-fats or hydrogenated oils can also be a cause of heart disease.  Those who promote high-fat diets have seized on this fact and cite trans-fats as the main cause of heart disease. This argument not only ignores clinical studies and over 50 years of solid medical research, but also ignores common sense. When cows are fed meat, for example, they develop heart disease – just like we do – and no cow that I know of has ever eaten an Oreo cookie. Similarly, autopsies of prehistoric humans who ate meat-heavy diets in certain areas of the world have shown heart disease in 25-year-olds. And to my knowledge, they never had Krispe Kreme donuts for breakfast while sitting around the campfire. There are also cases where people have actually reversed heart disease following a RAVE Diet, but then returned to eating meat – and their heart disease returned, as well. When an animal-based diet is introduced to populations, which never had heart disease in their history, heart disease becomes their number one killer. And when meat is taken away from populations, such as those cited above during World War II, heart disease is reversed.

To blame this disease on trans-fats, while saying it’s Ok to eat high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol, high-fat advocates are providing people with very dangerous advice. It simply boils down to yet another diversionary tactic in order to keep people on meat-based diets – and keep the revenues of high-fat diet programs fat.

Another related argument of the high-fat set is that during the last 20 years, Americans were eating less fat, yet getting fatter, so lowering dietary fat doesn’t result in weight loss. The conclusion: It isn’t the fat that’s making us fat, but the carbs. So follow a low-carb diet! As appealing as this argument may seem, it is completely false. In fact, Americans are now eating more fat than ever. The basic problem is that they are also eating more calories than ever. As a result, the percentage of fat from total calories has declined, but the total fat in our diet has actually