Although well-known to the ancients, nutrition is the forgotten secret of health and well being. Many illnesses are either a direct result of faulty nutrition or arise because of faulty nutrition. This is not the same as saying that all disease is caused by faulty nutrition. It means that many undesirable states of existence, including disease and low well-being are greatly influenced by what we eat, what we drink, what we breath, what we think, and what we do.
It is further claimed that something extremely wrong has occurred in the West in the last 100 years resulting in misery and illness for hundreds of thousands of people.
For example, there has been a massive increase in:
Heart Disease
Cancer
Depression
Diabetes
Crime
When disease states arise, they can sometimes be eradicated or lessened through adopting appropriate nutrition. When some conditions arise, an emergency condition exists and little other than conventional medical action is appropriate. However, when there is time or when a preventative approach is taken a great deal of Western illnesses are amenable to nutritional therapy.
There are two broad areas that indicate that something is wrong or has gone wrong on a global scale. I am taking heart disease as an example to illustrate the argument. Heart attacks are a major cause of death in the West, and so dramatically illustrates the problem.