The Power Of Truth

In his exquisite book People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck identified evil, lies and death as closely associated. He identifies the first, evil, as a direct cause and inseparable from the second and third, lies and death. 

In fact, evil and lies cause death.

These are powerful concepts, but I much prefer to revel in the positive corollaries. Truth, goodness and life also run in a pack, reinforcing, promoting and causing each other.

I love to reflect on these associations as I contemplate the nutritarian diet. There are strong indications that the nutritarian diet is based on principles of truth. Truth supports life, and the nutritarian diet promotes better health, longer life, more sure recovery.

It appears to me to be more effective than medications in both preventing and healing disease. It ought to be a first line defense of every family hoping to raise truly healthy children. It should be the first thing anyone confronted with any illness should be taught and supported in. It ought to be the foundation of medical treatment, that supports and makes more certain all that medications and medical technology is intended to accomplish.

The healing power of good nutrition is much more powerful than what is taught in medical schools.

The reality is, it’s all but ignored. That is, it appears to me, a direct result of rat pack from the first paragraph.

Part of the lie is that good nutrition is all about making a few changes to your diet. The reality is, our normal American diet, also called the Standard American Diet or SAD diet (for good reason), is, literally, a killer.

Even a lot of changes, but keeping the same basic diet, does not make much difference. Real healing, real prevention takes a total paradigm shift.

The nutritarian path is the most complete and well founded paradigm shift I’ve ever seen. Here’s  an example we experienced.

In late 2007 my wife was diagnosed as firmly diabetic, referred to a local hospital diabetes education program, given a blood sugar monitor and told to prepare for a lifetime program that would certainly lead to insulin. Maybe, just maybe she wouldn’t die young, if she learned and followed the American Diabetes Association diet and recommendations.

It was all bunk. Bunk bordering on lies. Not deliberate lies, not conscious lies from individual diabetes educators, doctors or the hospital, but major, culturally based, research reinforced, medically supported lies.


Those lies would have led to her death. Maybe not soon, but certainly over time, they would have shortened her life.

We attacked her diabetes, not with the full nutritarian plan, but with a few ideas based on The China Study, and a brief reference in the main Wikipedia article on diabetes about a low-fat, vegan and low glycemic approach to dealing with diabetes.

Three months later, her blood sugar was normal. When we told what we’d done, her doctor said, ”I’ve heard of people doing this but I’ve never actually seen it.”

A year after that, her doctor declared “You haven’t had any symptoms in over a year – I’m taking the diagnosis off your chart.”

We call that cured. Cured from a dread disease that has killed lots of people, that we were told was incurable and always leads to insulin use. We were prepped to become steady consumers of diabetic testing supplies, insulin, the whole gamut of normal diabetes progression.

Instead, my sweet and precious wife was cured by nutritarian principles before we ever appreciated what that meant.

Along the way, Larry H. Miller, a local multimillionaire business owner, died a miserable, hacked off (literally) death from diabetes. He could afford any kind of treatment, any kind of advice, anything at all that would have made a difference.

He was never a nutritarian.

Don’t know him personally, but I doubt he was ever given a real chance or medical advice to become one.

It really can be, it really is, lies vs. truth, life vs. death.