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06 Jan 10
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06 Mar 07
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Regarding it being National Heart Month and heart disease in general. 1 out of every 2 men, and 1 out of every 3 women will have heart disease issues in the course of their lifetime in this country. Near 1,500,000 people will die this year from heart-related problems.
Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn have both, independently, shown that a very low-fat plant-based diet can arrest and REVERSE heart disease. Their scientific and well-measured, documented studies were peer-reviewed, and Essy's work and data spans 20 years. His patients were, literally, "the walking dead" when it came to heart disease.
Modern medicine is incapable of reversing heart disease. A PBS special, "Hidden Epidemic," which aired on Valentine's Day said that heart disease is incurable. Wrong. It's not inevitably a death sentence.
A healthy and tasty vegan diet will do the job. Besides, you'd be eating the way most people on the planet do already ('cept those in Westernized cultures). It's so bad in the United States that some physicians say that people eating the Traditional American Diet should be automatically considered to have heart disease in their early sixties (and we already see signs of same in children much younger).
Again: a low-fat vegan diet can reverse and prevent heart disease (let alone the impact on hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and a host of other so called "diseases"). Some of Essy's patients couldn't exercise much, yet their symptoms of HD STILL were reversed. What's more radical? Eating a plant-based diet or cutting open a person's chest and replacing a heart artery with a piece of vein from a leg?
If put in these terms, let alone the arguments you presented, it's just amazing more people don't catch on.
Check out Dr. Esselstyn's Research at:
http://www.heartattackproof.com...
FYI, Mark
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And I could not agree more about not sweating the small stuff. I've been a vegan for almost 20 years, and I now strongly feel that my earlier almost "fundamentalist" veganism was counter-productive. I felt great about my "purity," but others just thought I was a nut. So, as Kathy notes, I was hurting animals.
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EAT ETHNIC.
The "western" diet is the only one with the focus on MEAT.
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27 Feb 07
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