Sharan » Report on Peas Vs Pills in Europe

During the trip I also had the good fortune to meet many people who were helping others to get healthy by using food as medicine. In Milan, there was Dr Michaela Petris who gave weekly talks about how to eat to be healthy. Dr Berrino at the Cascina Rosa in Italy's prestigious cancer institute, Instituto Dei Tumori is world famous. He had a dinner get-together with his patients and their friends, and people who had done his courses. I met several people who had made quantum leaps in their health through his teachings. One man had suffered from severe asthma before he learnt about a macrobiotic vegan diet. Others were cancer patients.

There were some purely vegan restaurants in all the Italian cities where I gave talks and workshops which shows that the efforts of the pro-animal and vegan groups are paying off. Both Milan and Turin boast several vegan restaurants. It was no problem getting good vegan food catered for the workshops. In Malmo, Sweden there was a Chinese restaurant run by followers of the Supreme Master . They seem to have restaurants and followers all over the world. And the Supreme Master and her followers have done a lot to spread this information.

I was in Budapest to give a homeopathic seminar to doctors. I shared with them some serious cases, which had been treated only with a change of diet. Budapest also boasts of several incredible vegan restaurants and also many vegetarian ones. There is a 33-year-old spiritual master there who was spreading the vegan message and had started a vegan restaurant. I also met a 32-year-old doctor who had been vegan for 2 years. She had been overweight and had very high blood pressure (220) and nothing helped her till she met the spiritual master (who was also a naturopath). She switched to a vegan diet, which helped her lose 40 kg and her blood pressure came back to normal. She said she neither misses meat nor would ever eat it again. However, in general most doctors in these cities have absolutely no clue about the health benefits of vegan diets. Consumption of meat is going up, as are the epidemics of obesity, cancer, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes and other diseases. Even young children are affected by many of these problems.

My Swiss workshop had many enthusiasts and it is already being planned again for next year.