The following is a collection of sources, studies, other articles, testimonials, etc., regarding the effect when humans adopt a species-appropriate diet and how that simple change overwhelmingly has an almost-miraculous, measurable benefit to human health. When the data is critically examined (and there is much more available when you continue to research), it seems there is little room for debate as to what dietary pattern best meets the optimal human nutritional needs and effective health promotion/disease prevention...
"Let food be thy medicine"
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Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease - most of the major 'diseases' out there - are largely avoidable and often even curable. But sadly, your medical professional is unlikely to offer much except for prescribing drugs that will only apply a Band Aid on what will almost surely proceed to a gaping wound. My goal is to share what I have learned in 25+ years as a Registered Nurse - the past 20 or so years researching species-appropriate nutrition - and offer a pathway toward true healing.
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Take the following study, for example. There has been NO drug that has ever reversed heart disease. No American Heart Association recommendation has ever been shown to reverse heart disease. Our current recommendations simply maintain illness. Additionally, having stents and bypasses will NOT help the person who does not eradicate the underlying cause of their disease. But many are proving it is possible they can avoid these invasive life-altering surgeries and even reverse their disease when they simply change their diet.
The study states:
Clinical trials have also demonstrated benefits of plant-based dietary patterns in patients with CHD (coronary heart disease). In 1983 and 1990, RCTs using a lifestyle medicine intervention of a whole foods, low-fat, vegetarian diet, moderate exercise, social support, and stress-management training documented significant reversal in CHD, as measured by improvements in ventricular function using radionuclide ventriculography, a 400% increase in myocardial perfusion by cardiac positron emission tomography, regression in coronary atherosclerosis using quantitative coronary arteriography, and 2.5 times fewer cardiac events when compared with a randomized control group (127–130). There was a dose-response correlation between adherence to this lifestyle intervention and changes in percent diameter stenosis. Two demonstration projects showed significant improvements in all risk factors, a >90% reduction in angina within weeks, decreased need for medications, and a 77% reduction in the need for revascularization (131,132). Additionally, in 1995 and 2014, a whole food plant-based diet intervention was shown to result in prevention of coronary artery disease progression and angiographic disease reversal (133–135). On this basis, it appears that a whole food, plant-based diet may halt progression of coronary atherosclerosis and achieve evidence of angiographic disease regression.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2016.10.086
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The incredible result - and the valuable tool it offers in truly healing people is extremely powerful and gives hope to many who suffer from chronic cardiovascular disease and many other 'disease' conditions. (There are many other studies and testimonials in this article.)
(Some of the following statements refer to a plant-based way of eating as a 'Vegan Diet'. Obviously, I cannot control the words other people choose, but the term 'Vegan Diet' is a misnomer and I wish it were avoided when the discussion is about health. I always use the term 'plant-based' or use the actual species classification and I never use the term 'Vegan diet' in my own writings. Nonetheless, it does not devalue the significance of their findings.)
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Houston Cardiologist Dr. Baxter Montgomery puts his patients on a plant-based diet to treat their chronic conditions, and they see amazing results. One of his patients, Rosalee Iles, was overweight and suffered from type 2 diabetes and heart disease. She had been taking insulin for over 20 years. After adopting a low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet, she got off insulin, lost 35 pounds, and reversed her heart disease.
https://www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/houston-cardiologist-amazing-success-treating-type-2-diabetes-nutrition
Dr. Baxter Montgomery
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“My drastically improved health and my reading of the available data convinced me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that a whole-foods plant-based diet was better than any pill I’d ever prescribed. I was thrilled to have this incredible tool but more than a little angry that I hadn’t learned about this in my training. I paid a lot of money for that education, and couldn’t believe this lifesaving information was left out of the curriculum. My feelings of anger were rapidly followed by a feeling of horror as I realized that I had been practicing medicine all wrong for many years. I had been pushing pills and procedures instead of broccoli and beans. It felt like a punch to the stomach. Despite wanting nothing more than to help my patients get well, I had enabled many of them to stay sick.”
Kerry Graff, MD
https://www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/doctors-want-get-healthier-not-bed-big-pharma
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"The more meat and dairy in your diet, the higher your risk of cancer."
Dr Chidi Ngwaba at Oxford University
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“The biggest surprise for me in observing my patients who have adopted a whole food plant based diet is that they have actually been able to not just control or manage, but reverse their chronic illness while coming off their medications. And that's just radical and revolutionary, because what I was in Med school and residency the predominant mantra was management of chronic illness - no matter how many medications it took. If I had a new patient come in with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, if I could get good blood glucose control, good cholesterol control and good blood pressure with the aid of medications such as Metformin, Glipizide, lisinopril, hydrochlorothiazide, and Lipitor for their cholesterol, I was considered a good doctor. And now what I'm seeing is that these same patients who come in on these medications are able to get rid of all of them just by changing what they put at the end of their fork… with better control than when they were on the medications in the first place. That's to me – that’s just radical, revolutionary, and shocking.”
Anthony Lim, MD
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Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins
A Randomized Clinical Trial
For this randomized controlled trial, the team recruited 22 pairs of healthy adult identical twins via the Stanford Twin Registry, a database of twins who have signed up to participate in research. They assigned one twin from each pair to follow a vegan diet for eight weeks, and the other to an omnivorous diet.
The researchers ensured that both diets were as healthful as possible, with both the vegan and omnivore diets containing ample vegetables, beans, fruits, and whole grains and minimal sugar and refined starches. The omnivorous diet additionally included chicken, fish, eggs, cheese, and dairy.
At four weeks the twins eating vegan had already seen significant improvements in their cardiometabolic health, with lower LDL cholesterol, insulin, and body weight. By the completion of the study (8 weeks), the vegan group had reduced their LDL by around 14% and their fasting insulin levels by 20%. They’d also lost, on average, 4.2 pounds more than the omnivorous group.
The results were published November 30 in JAMA Network Open. “The findings from this trial suggest that a healthy plant-based diet offers a significant protective cardiometabolic advantage compared with a healthy omnivorous diet,” the authors concluded.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2812392
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“People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease and people who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians."
T. Colin Campbell, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University
Dr. T. Colin Campbell
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There was a study done in Gisborne, New Zealand titled The BROAD study: A randomised controlled trial using a whole food plant-based diet in the community for obesity, ischaemic heart disease or diabetes. The participants were aged 35-70. The study results showed those following a plant-based diet lost an average 11.5kg in one year - the largest weight loss of any randomised control trial in which participants had no restriction on calories and did not have to exercise. After 12 months, as well as the weight loss, those who changed their diet decreased their waist circumference by average of 9cm and their medication usage by an average of 29 per cent. Further, two out of four patients with diabetes reduced their dosage or reliance on diabetes medications, including one who no longer required insulin. Those without diabetes also reported improved levels of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), used to assess a person's control of their condition, with a higher score showing a greater risk of developing diabetes-related complications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nutd20173
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“During my 11 years of medical training, I learned how to diagnose and treat diseases from many brilliant physicians and scientists. However, I did not learn as much about the successful ways to prevent disease in the first place, such as with nutrition; a common theme, unfortunately. Nevertheless, I have come to learn and experience that heart disease (and many other diseases) are preventable, treatable and even potentially reversible with dietary changes, specifically by adopting a whole food plant-based diet – a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and yams, and excluding highly refined foods and animal products, such as meats and dairy.”
Robert Ostfeld, M.D., MSc., cardiologist
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2016-09-16/the-secret-to-putting-your-cardiologist-out-of-business
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“After years of intense research, I could come to only one conclusion: People whose diets are high in animal protein have significantly higher rates of chronic diseases: hypertension, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and many, many others, including cataracts, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, inflammatory bowel disease, gall bladder disorders, gout, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, kidney stones, and rheumatoid arthritis.”
Dr. Garth Davis, Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Video of Dr. Garth Davis
(please ignore the fact that he is responding to a specific person, because the information in the video is fantastic!)
Dr. Garth Davis Part One
Dr. Garth Davis Part Two - Blue Zones, carbs, etc.
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“Animal-based foods promote the mechanisms that underlie chronic cardiometabolic disease, whereas whole-food plant-based nutrition can reverse them.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002914922010670
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Dr. Ronald Weiss prescribes medicine but he also does something less typical: For most patients, he prescribes a plant-based diet he believes will help fight chronic ailments like diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol.
“The ultimate goal is to relieve suffering and to sustain life and make life better. So I will choose any way that we have to do that.”
https://www.today.com/health/plant-based-diet-helps-patients-heal-doctor-says-t23211
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“The discovery of alkylating mutational signature associated with the consumption of red and processed meats ‘further implicates’ diet in the development of colorectal cancer.”
Marios Giannakis, M.D., Ph.D
https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2021/red-meat-colorectal-cancer-genetic-signature
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Gastroenterologist Dr. Angie Sadeghi, MD is committed to delivering the highest quality of care to her patients. In order to do that, she strongly advocates for the elimination of animal products - particularly dairy - from the diet of anyone suffering from inflammatory bowel disease or other gastrointestinal issues.
Dr. Angie Sadeghi
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"Several research studies have shown that plant-based diets reduce body fat. One clinical study by Barnard et. al researched the effects of a plant-based diet in postemenopausal women after 14 weeks. From this study, it was reported that the adoption of a plant-based diet had a statistically significant mean weight loss of 5.8 kg compared to a weight loss of 3.8 kg in the control group which adopted a meat-inclusive diet following the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines."
https://pha.berkeley.edu/2021/04/11/benefits-of-plant-based-diets-in-athletic-performance/
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“A review of large-scale studies involving more than 1.5 million people found all-cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat, particularly red or processed meat, on a daily basis.”
"Is Meat Killing Us?"; Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160505140057.htm
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Twelve cohort and thirty case-control studies were included in the meta-analysis. Significant associations were found between both red (RR: 1.45, 95% CI: 1.22–1.73) and processed (RR: 1.45, 95% CI: 1.26–1.65) meat intake and gastric cancer risk generally. Positive findings were also existed in the items of beef (RR: 1.28, 95% CI: 1.04–1.57), bacon (RR: 1.37, 95% CI: 1.17–1.61), ham (RR: 1.44, 95% CI: 1.00–2.06), and sausage (RR: 1.33, 95% CI: 1.16–1.52). When conducted by study design, the association was significant in case-control studies (RR: 1.63, 95% CI: 1.33–1.99) but not in cohort studies (RR: 1.02, 95% CI: 0.90–1.17) for red meat. Increased relative risks were seen in high-quality, adenocarcinoma, cardia and European-population studies for red meat. And most subgroup analysis confirmed the significant association between processed meat intake and gastric cancer risk.
“Our findings indicate that consumption of red and/or processed meat contributes to increased gastric cancer risk.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23967140/
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“Compared with the control group, a plant-based diet resulted in a significant decrease in body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, HbA1c, and fasting blood glucose after 8 weeks. Overall, it can be concluded that a plant-based diet had a more favorable nutrient composition for cardiovascular health than the omnivorous dietary pattern of the control group.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36364858/
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In a 74-week trial, Neal Barnard, MD, and his research team randomized 99 participants with type 2 diabetes to a low-fat, vegan diet or a diet following American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines. They found the low-fat, vegan diet to be significantly more effective than the ADA dietary guidelines at achieving glycemic control.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19339401
Diabetes expert Dr. Neal Barnard
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"A plant-based diet is the best diet for kids, too: Studies have shown that vegetarian kids grow taller and have higher IQs than their classmates, and they are at a reduced risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other diseases in the long run."
Charles Attwood, M.D., Dr. Attwood's Low-Fat Prescription for Kids, New York: Penguin Books, 1995
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“The blood pressure and glucose readings were dropping as well as their weight. Their aches and pains were gone and diabetic neuropathy was improving. Medications were being eliminated. The cholesterol readings were normalizing. All because of plants. I never witnessed this degree of health improvement practicing traditional medicine.”
Dr. Jami Dulaney
https://nutritionstudies.org/frustrations-of-being-a-plant-based-cardiologist
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"Milk’s main selling point is calcium, and milk-drinking is touted for building strong bones in children and preventing osteoporosis in older persons. However, clinical research shows that dairy products have little or no benefit for bones...Dairy products—including cheese, ice cream, milk, butter, and yogurt—contribute significant amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat to the diet...Prostate and breast cancers have been linked to consumption of dairy products.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM); "Health Concerns About Dairy Products"
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"The human body has no more need for cows’ milk than it does for dogs’ milk, horses’ milk, or giraffes’ milk. There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods."
Michael Klaper, MD
Michael Klaper, MD
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Nurses at three faculty-led community health clinics participated in a nutrition educational program, following a plant-based diet for 21 days.
After 21 days:
74% saw a decrease in total cholesterol
53% of participants lost weight, accomplishing this without counting calories, monitoring food quantities, or rigidly following the diet
in addition, participants reported a dramatic improvement in satisfaction with their energy levels—11% were highly satisfied before the diet, whereas 41% felt this way afterward
only 6% of participants were highly satisfied with their overall health before starting the program, but 44% felt this way after the program
In summary they found that proper nutrition is an important but often overlooked component of preventive care and disease management and the nurses who participated in the program now see a plant-based diet as a viable option for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.
https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Abstract/2017/03000/A_Plant_Based_Nutrition_Program.31.aspx
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"Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it...Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes without drugs or surgery."
Dean Ornish, MD
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“I recommend a plant-based diet because I know it’s going to lower their blood pressure, improve their insulin sensitivity and decrease their cholesterol, and so I recommend it in all those conditions.”
Dr. Kim A. Williams, former president-elect of the American College of Cardiology
https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/advice-from-a-vegan-cardiologist
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Dietary modification is an important approach to cancer control. In 1981, Doll and Peto estimated that approximately 35% of cancer deaths in the United States were avoidable by modification of diet. World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that excess consumption of red and preserved meat are associated with an increased risk of CRC, based on the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report. Finally, processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence by IARC, on 26 October 2015.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698595
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"The fact is: the drinking of cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the world's population, and the cause of multiple forms of allergy as well; and the possibility has been raised that it may play a central role in the origins of atherosclerosis and heart attacks.”
Frank A. Oski, MD, Former Director of the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, Don't Drink Your Milk
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"The results showed that men consuming 430g/d of dairy compared to those consuming 20.2g/d had a 27% increased risk of developing prostate cancer. Compared to participants consuming zero dairy, those consuming the most had a 60% increased risk."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35672028
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Heterocyclic amines
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“During my life-changing transformation from traditional cardiologist to empowered Healthy Heart Doc, I realized that with great power comes great responsibility. I have changed my approach in the war against heart disease and its allies (diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and obesity) by opting to battle with ‘forks over stents’.”
By Columbus Batiste, MD, FACC, FSCAI
https://www.forksoverknives.com/success-stories/why-i-abandoned-traditional-cardiology-to-become-the-healthy-heart-doc
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"Dairy products contribute to a surprising number of health problems. They can impair a child's ability to absorb iron and in very small children can even cause subtle blood loss from the digestive tract. Combined with the fact that milk has virtually no iron of its own, the result is an increased risk of iron deficiency."
Benjamin Spock, MD, pediatrician and author, article "Good Nutrition for Kids"
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The results showed that a plant-based diet was protective against the development of GI cancers with a risk reduction in the order of 20–30% Plant-based diets reduced the risk of pancreatic cancer by 29%, colorectal by 24%, rectal by 16%, colon by 12%, gastric by 19%, liver by 39%.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35719615
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Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic published a study last year in The Journal of Family Practice demonstrating that patients with coronary artery disease eating a whole food plant-based diet had approximately a 30-fold decrease in cardiovascular events (heart attacks, strokes, placement of coronary stents, and heart surgery) when compared to patients treated with conventional strategies. Unlike conventional medical and interventional therapies -- which at best slow the progression of coronary artery disease -- 70 percent of Esselstyn’s patients actually have some degree of reversal of their coronary artery blockages. He calls coronary artery disease a “toothless paper tiger” and maintains that “you need not ever have coronary artery disease,” and even if you already have it, “you need not ever have a heart attack.”
https://www.mrt.com/news/health/article/Plant-based-diet-is-solution-to-ending-7414519.php
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In the EPIC-Oxford study, those following a vegetarian or vegan diet had a 77% reduction in the risk of developing myeloma.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36170461
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“Among US adults, higher consumption of dietary cholesterol or eggs was significantly associated with higher risk of incident CVD and all-cause mortality...”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30874756
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“In China a recent shift to meat-heavy diets has been linked to increases in obesity, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. U.S. and World Health Organization researchers have announced similar findings for other parts of the world. And then there are the growing concerns about what happens to people who eat the flesh of animals that have been pumped full of genetically modified organisms, hormones and antibiotics.”
T. Colin Campbell, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University
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“In this prospective study of red meat, poultry, and egg consumption and risk of lethal prostate cancer in the PSA-era, we observed a statistically significant positive association between intake of eggs and risk of lethal prostate cancer. In addition, among men initially diagnosed with clinically localized or regional prostate cancer, we observed suggestive positive associations between total poultry and total processed red meat intake and progression to lethal prostate cancer…”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232297
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"Milk contains fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, and diets high in fat and saturated fat can increase the risk of several chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease...Organic milk may not contain the pesticides and antibiotics that non-organic milk contains, but still can be loaded with fat and cholesterol. Even organic cow’s milk, which does not contain artificial hormones, does contain naturally occurring hormones. These hormones have been shown to increase the risk of some forms of cancer."
Neal Barnard, MD
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A Mayo Clinic study found that eating lots of antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables may reduce your risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The researchers concluded that the key is eating foods high in antioxidants - taking antioxidant supplements doesn't have the same effect. A study at Oxford University backed up the Mayo Clinic's findings, and even went a bit further, concluding that vegetarians slashed their risk of non- Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia and other blood cancers by 45 percent.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428173
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National Cancer Institute researchers studied 500,000 people and found those who reported eating the highest amounts of red meat (about a steak a day) had a 30 percent greater risk of dying compared to those who ate the lowest amounts of red meat.
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/1/246/5470096
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“Don’t drink milk for health. I am convinced on the weight of the scientific evidence that it does not 'do a body good.' Inclusion of milk will only reduce your diet’s nutritional value and safety."
Robert M. Kradjian, MD Former Chief of General Surgery at Seton Medical Center, "The Milk Letter: A Message to My Patients”
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Tufts University Scientists in Boston found that young women performed worse on mental acuity tests after just one week on the low-carb, meat-centered diets such as the Atkins diet.
https://now.tufts.edu/2008/12/11/low-carb-diets-can-affect-dieters-cognition-skills
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“We have just been doing some calculations looking at the question of how much could we reduce mortality shifting towards a healthy, more plant-based diet, and our estimates are about one-third of deaths could be prevented. If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero."
Walter Willett, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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“Diet as a primary intervention was considered most effective when emphasizing whole, plant-based foods including whole grains, vegetable, legumes, fruits, nuts and seeds, with minimal consumption of meat and other animal products.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15598276221087624
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"When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings."
William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of The American Journal of Cardiology
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“To effectively heal, physicians should educate themselves, their medical teams, and their patients about food-based prescriptions, not fad diets or industry-backed claims, to treat the root cause of chronic disease. This advice isn’t unsolicited. One in two adults, according to a survey of 10 million people, is asking for nutrition guidance. It’s time for health care providers to take the lead…Up to 90 percent of type 2 diabetes cases can be prevented by keeping weight under control, exercising more, eating a healthy diet, and not smoking…As we teeter on the brink of a food revolution, we need doctors to lead the way. To shift demand for plant-based eating patterns, they must first understand how they work and how to prescribe them.”
Agustina Saenz, MD
https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/17/nutrition-doctors-patients
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Another video from Dr. Michael Klaper
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“The recommendation to drink three glasses of low-fat milk or eat three servings of other dairy products per day to prevent osteoporosis is another step in the wrong Direction… Three glasses of low-fat milk add more than 300 calories a day. This is a real issue for the millions of Americans who are trying to control their weight. What's more, millions of Americans are lactose intolerant, and even small amounts of milk or dairy products give them stomachaches, gas, or other problems. This recommendation ignores the lack of evidence for a link between consumption of dairy products and prevention of osteoporosis. It also ignores the possible increases in risk of ovarian cancer and prostate cancer associated with dairy products.”
Harvard School of Public Health; On the Consumption of Dairy Products (2005)
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"Cow's milk is a foreign substance that has pervaded every corner of our diets... Today there is little doubt that early and frequent feeding of dairy products leads to greatly increased incidence of childhood diabetes. It has been confirmed that high cow's milk consumption is a major cause of osteoporosis."
Linda Folden Palmer, DC, chiropractor and author, Baby Matters: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby (2007)
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“The education doctors receive regarding the prevention and reversal of chronic illnesses is woefully inadequate. On average, most doctors receive only 19.6 hours of nutrition training across four years of medical school.”
https://www.aamc.org/media/25711/download
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"Milk and refined sugar make two of the largest contributions to food induced ill health in our country... It is my strong recommendation that you discontinue your milk products."
Joseph Mercola, DO, Osteopathic Physician
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Researchers looked at 6,318 adults over the age of 50. On average, about 16 percent of their total daily calories came from protein. People who ate high-protein diets were 74 percent more likely to die before the end of the study than those who ate low-protein diets. Decreasing protein consumption from moderate to low levels reduced early mortality risk by 21 percent. The study shows that middle-aged people who eat a diet high in animal proteins from milk, meat and cheese are more likely to die of cancer than someone who eats a low-protein diet. The research also showed the people who ate lots of meat and dairy were more likely to die at an earlier age.
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)00062-X
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Another video from Dr. Anthony Lim:
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"The results showed that a sustained change from a typical Western diet to the optimal diet from age 20 years was estimated to increase life expectancy by 10.7 years in women and 13 years in men. The largest gains were shown to occur by eating more legumes (females: 2.2 years; males: 2.5 years), whole grains (females: 2.0; males: 2.3 years), and nuts (females: 1.7 years; males: 2.0 years) and less red meat (females: 1.6; males: 1.9 years) and processed meat (females: 1.6 years; males: 1.9 years). Changing from a typical diet to the optimal diet at age 60 years was estimated to increase LE by 8.0 years for women and 8.8 years for men, and 80-year-olds would gain 3.4 years. Even a halfway transition towards an optimal diet was predicted to increase LE by 6.2 years for 20-year-old women from the United States and 7.3 years for men. Results were presented based on US data, but similar trends were found when considering data from China and Europe."
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889
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“Dr. Greger’s career was inspired by his grandmother, who was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease and sent home to die at the age of 65. Nathan Pritikin, one of the early lifestyle medicine pioneers, then took her on and after just three weeks, she couldn’t just get out of her wheelchair, but walk for 10 miles a day – living another 31 healthy years on this earth.”
"A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases."
Dr. Michael Greger
https://www.drcarney.com/blog/science-inspired/nathan-pritikin-shows-heart-disease-is-reversible
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“In just a short time, I’ve seen many patients avoid or decrease medications, prevent diabetes, lose weight, and reduce their cardiovascular risk by moving towards or fully adopting a plant-based diet.”
Dr. Michelle McMacken
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"Research shows that plant-based diets are cost-effective, low-risk interventions that may lower body mass index, blood pressure, HbA1C, and cholesterol levels. They may also reduce the number of medications needed to treat chronic diseases and lower ischemic heart disease mortality rates. Physicians should consider recommending a plant-based diet to all their patients, especially those with high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or obesity."
https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/doi/10.7812/TPP/12-085
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Which doctor would you rather have?
Sadly, many of our medical professionals have poor comprehension of nutrition and – even while understanding anatomy and physiology - fail to relate our human body mechanisms with a
comparative anatomy chart. It makes perfect sense, and in fact, seems obvious when objectively examining anatomical and physiological comparisons. This is further evidenced by the dramatic positive effects almost unfailingly – and rapidly - demonstrated when we remove species-inappropriate foods from our body.
