Why Dietary Change Is So Hard for Patients–How Some Doctors Succeed

Doctors have proven that diet can reverse heart disease, but changing what we eat is incredibly difficult–even when our lives depend on it.
Why Dietary Change Is So Hard for Patients–How Some Doctors Succeed
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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We know exactly how to prevent and reverse many of our deadliest diseases. The science is settled, and the results are proven—Medicare will even pay for it. There’s just one problem: getting people to do it.

In the 1940s, Dr. Walter Kempner demonstrated that diet alone could reverse diseases previously thought to be irreversible, such as malignant hypertension and kidney and heart failure. Although many were critically ill with only months to live, the battle wasn’t against disease; it was against human nature.
Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.