We report the testimony of Dr. Pierluigi Bonifazi, a nutritionist who, tired of hearing daily absurdities on nutrition, has even decided to publish a book: “Nutritional Therapies”.

Today we are daily flooded with information that indicates the recommended and not recommended foods in a healthy and correct diet. Fruits, vegetables, legumes, meat, are all offered as long-life elixirs or risky poisons, some even referred to as carcinogens.

Sometimes the good news overlaps the bad news. So green tea is recommended as an antioxidant drink to prevent many different types of cancers, but at the same time, containing oxalates, indicated as a possible cause of kidney stones. A mess of pros and cons that often confuses ideas and above all gives few elements on the real harmful or beneficial effects of particular foods.

In the last decade, the progressive abandonment of religious faith, but above all a lack of personal interests, have created an inner chasm that seems to be filled with new ideologies. Food is certainly the strongest, allowing us to fill the inner void and making us believe that our food choices make us better than others.

The cult of the body and well-being, non-existent until the 90s, has imposed itself forcefully in the life of all of us. A cult now pathological, where we must necessarily eliminate “dirty” foods that make us sick and gain weight and where we must undertake a spasmodic search for “pure” foods that save from physical and mental deterioration. This psychosis of “pure” food makes us extremely vulnerable: it is the dangers we really need to fear from nutrition.

A scientific drift is underway which is undermining our lifestyle, our traditions and our social customs; as a professional I can say with absolute certainty that the erroneous belief that some foods such as meat are harmful is more widespread and rooted than we think. These beliefs can be extremely dangerous for our health.

Almost daily I meet people in my clinic who are convinced that a vegan diet is the best for their children too.

A recent study from the highly civilized Canada (published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2017) where the vegan / vegetarian diet is also in vogue among infants, shows that children who do not drink milk, but vegetable drink such as “milk” from soybeans, almonds, rice, etc., have a clearly inferior physical and cognitive development compared to children who instead drink cow’s milk, rich in proteins and vitamins of animal origin.

The disinformation that invades both television and social networks every day, brought by so-called nutritionists, with big smiles and fluent talk, has distorted scientific axioms, clouding our minds and making us believe that chemical artefacts that fill supermarket shelves, instead of being fake-foods often loaded with pesticides and xenoestrogens, are natural and miraculous foods, perhaps capable of fighting cholesterol or even powerful anticancer, while natural foods that human has consumed for millions of years have become from day to day dangerous poisons.

Years of studies, of university research and outpatient practice have persuaded me to plan and spread, through the book “Nutritional Therapies“, a food education plan without ideological preconceptions of any kind. Spreading a nutritional education plan does not only mean primary prevention and ensuring more health for citizens, but above all it means healing a social scourge that spreads in old and new generations. That is, to reduce costs of the health system and those of chronic mass diseases with a high care impact.

Pierluigi Bonifazi

Graduated in biological sciences with a biomolecular specialization and a PhD in experimental medicine, is author of several papers in international journals, He has practiced the profession of nutritionist for over a decade, continuing research in experimental nutrition medicine.