Gino Pugliese And The Value of a Healthy Diet

How many times have your heard people tell you that you need milk? We see advertising for milk and milk products everywhere, from billboards to television commercials, and so forth. Milk is the stuff of life. Without milk, how can you get your daily quota of protein? Without milk, how can your bones grow and become strong and tough, and sustain your overall organism properly? Milk is protein; and protein is life. What more do we need to say? 

Well, the milk myths of the early part of the 20th century have been thoroughly debunked, in a big way, by the conscientious and painstaking research carried out by people like John McDougall, a leading researcher and doctor who has taken on the American Dairy Association for having repeatedly published falsehoods regarding the nutritional benefits of a diet rich in milk products. Besides, milk, there are all the delicious and tempting foods made from cow’s milk, such as ice cream and all the myriad cheeses out there. How can we resist? Especially, when we consider the fact at cheese has recently been proven, following a series of scientific trials and test, to be addictive to the human brain? Let’s look in a bit at a model of healthy living, Gino Pugliese.

Well, we know that milk is not as healthy as it was once believed. In the early 1900s, milk was considered the best source of protein, and therefore the massive interesting in producing more and more milk dominated the food industry. However, since protein ultimately comes to human beings from plant foods, either directly or by way of the our consumption of animals that eat plant foods themselves, we know that plants are the prime source of protein.

Gino Pugliese is a person who understands the value and importance of maintaining a healthy and balanced diet. Fowling a nasty injury sustained during a rugby match, Pugliese was forced to spend a lengthy stay in the hospital. He was told he could no longer engage in the intense sports activities he so loved, and played all his life up to that point. 

Gino Pugliese was compelled to live a sedentary lifestyle, a hardship most of us cannot imagine unless we too have been as active as Pugliese. He began overeating, and became obese. However, when he reached his heaviest weight, of nearly 400 pounds, Gino Pugliese changed his life.