Sunshine

Johanna Budwig was a German biochemist and author who was a leading authority on fats and human nutrition. Budwig focused her time and energy on treating cancer patients, people with heart diseases, arthritis and other ailments after they had been given up as hopeless by conventional medical practitioners. Budwig is best known for her flaxseed and cottage cheese diet which she used to restore her patients back to health. She published several books on the subject including "Cancer--A Fat Problem," "The Death of the Tumor," and "True Health Against Arteriosclerosis, Heart Infarction & Cancer."

In addition to her research on the role of fats in human nutrition and disease, Budwig insisted that high levels of vitamin D are necessary in order to be healthy and prevent cancer. Vitamin D is a hormone that regulates and repairs cells. Vitamin D is naturally produced by the skin when exposed to sunlight. Although some foods contain vitamin D, the best source is the sun.

Budwig was wriiten off as a quack by conventional medicine. How can you cure and/or prevent serious disease using something as simple as nutrition? Although it is not possible by simply eating flaxseed, cottage cheese and getting a healthy dose of sunshine, it is possible by following the Budwig protocol.

Having studied Johanna Budwig's work over ten years ago, I find it interesting that contemporay scientific research is beginning to support her findings and prove that Budwig was not a quack afterall. For more information about vitamin D and your health please see this overview published by Life Extension. Get outdoors in the sun, minus the sunscreen. Vitamin D guidelines can be found in this fact sheet published by the National Institute of Health.