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(BQ) Part 2 book “Chris beat cancer” has contents: Heroic doses, building a new body, take out the trash, let’s get physical, under pressure - stress and negative emotions, spiritual healing. | HEROIC DOSES The Anti-Cancer Diet If man made it, don’t eat it. — JACK LALANNE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE, the Book of Daniel records a period of time when the Jewish people were living as captives of their conquerors in Babylon. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar ordered young men from the Israelites’ royal family to be trained to serve in his palace for three years. Daniel was one of those men. The king ordered that the young men be fed the food from his table, but Daniel, in order to not violate his religious tradition, asked the chief official for permission not to eat the king’s food. The official refused. Daniel then said, “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but pulse to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance to the rest of the men who eat the royal food, and see what happens.” The word “pulse” refers to plant food like whole grains, beans, peas, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds—whatever was available in that region at the time. Daniel was given permission to do the test, and after just 10 days he and his friends who chose to eat humble plant food from the earth appeared remarkably healthier and more nourished than the young men who ate the king’s finest fare. Was their improved health a miracle or was it the diet? Twenty-seven hundred years later and two blocks from my house, researchers at the University of Memphis put 43 relatively healthy participants on a 21-day “Daniel fast,” eating a strict plant-based (vegan) diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds with no animal food as well as no processed food, additives, preservatives, white flour, sweeteners, caffeine, or alcohol. At the end of 21 days, the participants had significant increases in antioxidant capacity and nitric oxide in their blood—both very good things. They also had reductions in oxidative stress, blood pressure, cholesterol, insulin levels, insulin resistance, and C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation in the In just 21 .