I have to disagree with your stance and approach, to some degree, bigdizzle91. Your reply appears to be very angry and fuelled with emotions and it's always better to act, than to react. I do understand your perspective and how you might feel about the topic, given the source of your information.
I do not wish to attack you or your comments, but would like to point out that if you were to actually do the competent research, from an unbiased standpoint, you may be extremely surprised by what you might find.
The Ayurvedic diet is excellent, as it is based on healing. I feel that mainstream medicine neglects to heal people, but instead treats ailments, illnesses and conditions, with pharmaceutical drugs, which in many cases, only worsen the condition, or lure the patient into dependancy upon a chemical substance that will cause major damage to the body, should one want to stop taking it.
Anyway, I will leave it there and hopefully you will be able to discuss this in more detail and I can elucidate on the points I have raised and more. Diet and lifestyle will always be preferable to the body, when it comes to healing and not treatment.
All the best.
apologies if my comment came across as angry or agressive that was not my intention, i do need to work on my communication skills when its text based form as its sometimes difficult to purvey what im trying to say and gets misconstrued.
I wont claim to know alot about medicine or Ayurvedic diets etc but from my perspective it cannot and will not replace genuine medicine.
I agree diet and lifestyle are very important factors to our health and we need to stop consuming processed meats and foods filled with chemicals but i dont think you can call that healing or real medicine thats simply advice that any dietician or medicl professional will also give. Unfortunately our society has become dependant on foods like this and as such cause diseases that require pharmaceuticals to fix.
Dietary education and balanced intake are very important for our health and we should be taking preventative measures to getting sick rather than waiting to treat an illness once its formed but i dont like the term "pharmaceutical crap" as it detracts from the good real medicine does.