Gift of Health
I am Dr. Arjun Rayapudi, a general surgeon and a plant-based community nutritionist. My wife, Dr. Shobha Rayapudi, is a physician, researcher and clinical trialist.
We created Gift of Health to help you reach your highest health and decrease unnecessary suffering on our planet. Through our site, we hope to raise awareness about the connection between food/lifestyle choices and health.
During our training, clinical practice, and research work, we discovered, that most of the diseases that many patients suffer are due to their diet and lifestyle choices. In our medical school education and residency training, there was an enormous emphasis on taking care of sick patients with pills and procedures. We observed that there was greater emphasis on managing the symptoms rather than focusing on the cause of the problem. Medications and surgeries work well for most of the acute diseases and some chronic diseases. However, they are not the best options for managements of several chronic medical problems when compared to the power of food and lifestyle choices. There is evidence in the medical literature that almost 80% of chronic diseases are potentially avoidable if one follows optimal nutrition, stays active, manages stress healthfully and doesn’t smoke.