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Bill Clinton’s Vegan Diet: CNN Last Heart Attack, Sanjay Gupta, M.D

Bill Clinton’s Vegan Diet: CNN Last Heart Attack, Sanjay Gupta, M.D. (Video)http://www.skinnybliss.com/bill-clintons-vegan-diet-cnn-last-heart-attack-sanjay-gupta-m-d-video.html
Former President Bill Clinton appears in a CNN Documentary entitled The Last Heart Attack with Sanjay Gupta which will have its broadcast premiere on CNN on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 8 p.m. ET.

The original article is below…..
The program will explore the pioneering work of Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. of The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute as well as other doctors, including including Dean Ornish, M.D. — founder of The Preventive Medicine Research Institute — who are on the cutting edge of heart disease prevention and reversal through a plant-based low fat vegan diet.

The former President reveals his own personal journey of coping with heart disease and his commitment to a vegan diet to reverse the damaging affects of the coronary artery disease that led him to seek quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 and a follow-up operation in early 2010 in which doctors added two stents.

News first broke regarding President Clinton’s vegan diet a year ago when he lost 24 pounds for his daughter, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and appeared slim and trim in pictures showing him walking her down the aisle. Shortly thereafter, he discussed his diet in an interview on the CNN program The Situation Room with host Wolf Blitzer. (Click here to watch video.)

At the time, he said: “Since 1986, several hundred people who have tried essentially a plant-based diet, not ingesting any cholesterol from any source, has seen their bodies start to heal themselves — break up the arterial blockage, break up the calcium deposits around the heart. 82 percent of the people who have done this have had this result, so I want to see if I can be one of them.”

As a follow-up, Wolf Blitzer also interviewed Dr. Esselstyn and Dr. Ornish and and discussed in detail the changes Clinton made and how such a diet reverses heart disease. Click here to watch video.

This drew much attention as Clinton was infamous for his love of fried foods and fast foods, which was even parodied in a Saturday Night Live skit, Clinton at McDonald’s, with the late Phil Hartman.

And in turn this has drawn attention to the pioneering work of Dr. Esselstyn with patients at the Cleveland Clinic, as the work of Dean Ornish, M.D. as documented in a landmark 1990, entitled Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?

Dr. Ornish is a longtime friend of the Clintons and in the early 1990s, former First Lady Hillary Clinton invited him to consult with White House chefs in the 1990s during his Presidency to provide a healthier cuisine. It was a conversation with Dr. Ornish, after Clinton’s 2010 heart procedure that provided the final impetus for him to make radical changes in his diet and to abandon his moderate dietary modifications which had proved to be insufficient.

In an interview from the program, Clinton talked about making the transition to his new plant-based diet.

I essentially concluded that I had played Russian roulette,” Clinton said, “because even though I had changed my diet some and cut down on the caloric total of my ingestion and cut back on much of the cholesterol in the food I was eating, I still — without any scientific basis to support what I did — was taking in a lot of extra cholesterol without knowing if my body would produce enough of the enzyme to support it, and clearly it didn’t or I wouldn’t have had that blockage. So that’s when I made a decision to really change.”

The former president now says he consumes no meat, no dairy, no eggs, almost no oil.

“I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now,” Clinton told Gupta.

See also: The ‘heart attack proof’ diet?

More and more, word is getting out that it is the whole plant-based foods that are the healthy foods for weight loss and just as importantly, the foods that not only maintain health, but as studies have demonstrated can reverse such serious, degenerative conditions as heart disease. Along with T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. co-author of The China Study) and was prominently featured in the Lee Fulkerson documentary Forks Over Knives: How a Plant-Based Diet Can Save America. The movie has received critical acclaim from Roger Ebertand the New York Times, among others.

With a powerful and influential vocal proponent such as former President Bill Clinton we can look forward to a more widespread attention to the profound effects of diet on both preventing and reversing heart disease. Having been on my own journey from vegetarian at age 11 to adult vegan — flourishing and maintaining my weight on a low fat plant-based diet — I for one am very excited to see this vital information reach the mainstream after so many years.

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Plant Based Diet CURES Most Illnesses-Diseases - Dr. Esselstyn & Bill Clinton

Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.

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“When people learn to eat “Plant Based” to eliminate heart disease it could inaugurate a seismic revolution in health. Other diseases that resolve include obesity, hypertension, stroke, heart attacks, gall stones, diverticulitis, asthma, osteoporosis, allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lupus, & a marked decrease in the common western cancers of breast, prostate, colon, endometrial, ovarian, & pancreatic”.
Kathy Freston, Health & Wellness Expert for Huffington Post, October 27, 2009
"If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never, ever exist & if it does exist it need never, ever progress."
So says Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who was a researcher & clinician at the Cleveland Clinic for over 35 years. In 1991, Dr. Esselstyn served as the president of the American Assoc. of Endocrine Surgeons, & org. the 1st National Conference on the Elimination & Prevention of Heart Disease. In 2005, he became the 1st recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. Dr. Esselstyn is also an Olympic gold medalist in rowing, & he was awarded the Bronze Star as an army surgeon in Vietnam. In this series of interviews I've conducted with extraordinary nutritional researchers & MD’s, I've sought to understand the link between diet & the most common & dreaded diseases that are prevalent in our culture. What I'm hearing over & over is that a plant based diet is both preventative & healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health - this is the case with cancer, type 2 diabetes, & heart disease. The great news is that there is very real hope in shifting the course of our health. What is becoming very apparent through various peer reviewed studies is that by changing our diet - eliminating that which causes havoc in the body (animal protein) & adding in Plant Based proteins & eating lots of vegetables, legumes, beans, & whole grains, we can not only prevent disease, but also heal from it once it is already in motion.

Dr. Gupta-CNN Pres. Clinton, Dr. Esselstyn, Ornish etal.

September 01, 2011
http://www.happyhealthylonglife.com/happy_healthy_long_life/ - A great site
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta's Convinced! A Plant-Based Diet Can Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease & Give You Energy to Spare
CNN's Ali Velshi: Can you really cure heart disease with food?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The answer is yes! We found living proof of this.
Sharon Kintz is the woman we profiled. A 66 year old woman--had a heart attack--she needed to have heart surgery & she said, "No!" She's adopted a plant-based diet. She's very strict about it. She's been doing it for over a year & it's quite remarkable. Not only in how much she hasn't had any symptoms of heart disease, but in terms of her energy levels.
She could barely walk before all of this & literally now--a year later--on a plant-based diet, she's able to jump rope & has high energy levels.
CNN's Ali Velshi: OK, so the plant-based diet is good for your heart, but can you really get enough protein on this diet?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The answer is yes! The protein argument is a fallacy.
It's simply not true that you can't get enough protein on a plant-based diet. If you do even a little research you find out that broccoli has more protein per gram than most meat. Spinach has the same amount. And of course there's tofu.
People who do this diet feel good & have a lot more energy.
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Even though I watched the entire CNN "Last Heart Attack" special on Sunday--this promo really "Takes the Kale" for bringing home Dr. Sanjay Gupta's main point: Heart disease--the No. 1 killer in the U.S. is a food-borne illness. It need never exist. Food can cure it--and make you heart-attack proof!
Please take the four minutes to watch this promo--yes, even if you watched the special! I promise you--it's worth it.
Gupta comes clean with exactly what he learned after a year's worth of research on heart disease. Talking to the experts. Talking with patients. Studying the research. And Gupta's not just a TV doc--he's a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory Univ. in Atlanta who graduated from the Univ. of Michigan--undergrad & med school.
If you missed my post that summarized the special--& included the entire video, click here for "Dr. Sanjay Gupta's "The Last Heart Attack" Finally Airs on CNN - Looks Like Diet & Non-Invasive Diagnostic Testing Win Over Bypasses & Stents - The Cliff Notes, the Collected Transcripts, & the Entire Documentary"
And if you missed "The Last Heart Attack" you can catch it again on Saturday, September 3 at 8:00 PM EST--or watch it now, without the commercials--right here!
Can Food Cure Heart Disease?
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If you don't see the 2nd video on your screen, click here to go right to it.
Eating Your Way to Health--What About Protein on a Plant-Based Diet?
So, What About Those Energy Levels? And What Exactly Do You Eat on This Diet?
Yesterday, I was up at 6:00 am--and I ended up working much later than I expected. Like over 11 hours. Got home about 9:15 pm--and my day included about 2 1/2 hours of moving heavy medical journals from one floor to the next--on & off shelves & pushing a heavy journal-laden trolley between floors. Good thing I had packed my "lunch box" with breakfast, lunch, & snacks. It easily got me through the day--until I could finally get home & eat dinner--at 9:30 pm.
Here's what got me through the day.
Check back for the Taco Salad, the No-Fat Creamy Chipotle Dressing, & the Chickpea & Spinach Burger recipes tomorrow--no time to post it right now--I'm off to exercise, and then I'm working late, again, tonight!
My Breakfast & Snack: "Cheezy Savory Oatmeal" with Spinach, Chia Seed, & a Peach

Cheezy Savory Oatmeal with Shiitake Mushrooms, Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Spinach--Ready to Eat
OMG Amazing Taco Salad with Black Beans & My No-Fat Version of NYC's Famous Candle Cafe Chipotle Dressing. YUM! Next Time I'll Add Roasted Corn.

Packed & Portable Taco Salad for Lunch My Green Smoothie Mid-Day Sipping Snack-27 Ounces of Spinach,
Carrots, Kiwi, Berries, & an Orange

My Late Night Dinner--Chickpea & Spinach Burgers with Light Tahini Lemon Sauce, Sprouts & Oven-Baked Spicy Sweet Potato Fries
And sometime this weekend--I promise--Part II of my 15+ months on a plant-based no-oil diet. The tips, my favorite pantry staples, the supplements, & what's for lunch & dinner.
Tip: Word has it that "Forks Over Knives" is now streaming on Netflix. If you haven't seen it--it's a not-to-be missed documentary. Read more about it here & here.