Tracing back my motivation for switching to a healthy whole food-plant based diet (early 2017)

I was going through my Youtube liked videos of which there are thousands, just cleaning up deleted or hidden videos and such. I realized I could find more information from this about when I went plant based which videos prompted me towards it. Early in the year 2017 I found the ‘sugar is evil’ set of videos. These tend to peg the government as wrong about fat being the culprit. as described in the McGovern Report and encouraging less fat to be consumed, and sugar being the problem. As we all know, many things can be unhealthy when eaten above certain levels. However, I bought into the sugar theory at first and cut out all sugar.

I can’t say it didn’t help. Eliminating from the diet probably improved me. However, when I went to the doctor and I forget exactly when that was, I got a cholesterol reading of 210, which is slightly above the medical industry’s commonly acceptable range for ideal, which is below 200.

I notice I was watching raw vegan videos also. Towards April of 2017, I watched Mic the Vegan‘s channel videos and had several likes to that. I believe I found Dr. John Mcdougall‘s name while watching his channel. At that point, my interest in Dr. Mcdougall’s program skyrocketed. I had clicked ‘like’ on many of his videos over the following weeks and months and when I started the diet program. This is probably normal for people who switch the program to gain more information about it.

One thing I might not ever know is how I decided to look at the first Robert Lustig sugar video, and what prompted me to look at raw vegan at that point. Maybe it was a video comments, which can lead in other directions, or maybe it was a recommended video, on the right hand side of the screen. I can say that I was quite enamored by Lustig’s presentation. I know not everyone will like his presentation style but I enjoyed it.

Whatever the path, it changed my life considerably: not as stark as some people who are on their deathbed from cardiac problems, for example and have them solved with proper diet, though, but still quite sharply.

Keto, anti-sugar, Paleolithic Diet: Better than the Standard American diet.

I began thinking less in terms of black in white concerning these programs programs which I believe aren’t nearly as healthy as whole food-plant based. Keto and Paleo do get people to eat more fruits. Anti-sugar does get people to eat less sugar. Anybody on the standard diet including myself for many decades at far too much sugar, and too few fruit and vegetables.