Stick with paramedics

Dear Editor: Critical care paramedic Richard Earnshaw states “inflammation is the root of all evils associated with health care.” (Herald, Aug. 15)

What about addictions: smoking, alcohol, drugs, food? Speaking of food, I do doubt his diatribe. Do you remember Dan and Sheanne Moskaluk’s story in the paper earlier in the year? Sheanne has lost over 130 pounds and Dan survived stage 4 kidney cancer by fully embracing a plant-based lifestyle. Dan is now cancer free.

I completed the CHIP program this past April. CHIP stands for Complete Health Improvement Plan and is a four-week, three-nights-a-week lifestyle education program designed to help the participants achieve the benefits that come with optimal health. Each evening we watched an entertaining, educational video, watched a food demo and then tasted the food and we exercised as a group.

We all embraced a plant-based lifestyle, many of us with dramatic and positive changes in health challenges by the end of four weeks.

I’m sure Richard does an exemplary job saving lives as a paramedic but I don’t think it’s his job to write in telling me what I should and shouldn’t eat!

I think taking nutritional information from a paramedic is as ludicrous as a dietician attending a serious motor vehicle accident with a bowl full of kale.

To quote a Facebook post I read recently – “if slaughterhouses had glass walls we’d all be plantbased!”

Finally, what exactly is a “real” egg? Heather Jackson Okanagan Falls