Mindset & Diet: Ditch the SAD, and Live better, longer, healthier

Do you like quinoa? Fresh fruit? Nuts & berries? Do you like eating healthy, nutritious, yummy meals? And do you believe mindset is a factor as you navigate aisles at the grocery? For a number of reasons, we answer yes to all of these questions.

A few years ago, we started eating whole food plant-based meals. The breakfast bowl pictured has quinoa, mango, blueberries, strawberries, and cashews. All plants, fruits, and berries, and breakfasts like this start our day with all the nutrients we need. So, what does this have to do with mindset, and the way we cruise grocery aisles?

Following my heart attack five years ago we studied, and read, and discerned everything we could about the causes and prevention of cardiac illness. All the literature and research we found pointed to the SAD, the Standard American Diet as a major source of cardiac disease and changing to whole food plant-based eating as a major preventive. Here’s what the NIH research indicates:

The Standard American Diet (SAD) has long been implicated in contributing to the health challenges experienced in the United States. Significant changes to the SAD have occurred since the 1950s, including a greater abundance and accessibility to calorie-dense and nutrient-poor food and beverage choices.

So, we made the radical switch: No more meat, fish, eggs, dairy, or any kind of animal fat or protein. Robust research indicates that cardiac patients can not only prevent future cardiac events, they’re able to reverse the damage a myocardial infarction, a heart attack, has caused. Books like Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn’s Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease is an excellent source. Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study is another.

Discovering these well-supported scientific facts changed our mindset. We no longer simply accept what food advertisers feed us as facts. Our mindset has allowed us to be open to the idea, and the reality as it turns out, that those major food providers have little interest in public health. Instead, their interest lies in selling products the public will buy. No surprise there. The only surprise we found is that most of the studies claiming certain foods are good for us, cow’s milk for example, were paid for by, you guessed it, major food producers.

So, what we put on our plates, and in our breakfast bowls, can show our mindset in several different ways. Mindset changes are not easy, we can attest to that. But our health is better and we’re more energetic, sleep better, and enjoy life more now than we ever did. Our mindset change has led us here. There’s more:

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