By Don Porter, Cancer winner as anyone can be also
Read excerpts from the book: "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure." http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/prevent-and-reverse-heart-disease-caldwell-b-esselstyn/1101750501 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZendyXhU4
Esselstyn's Diet rules to live by that former Pres. Bill Clinton adopted.
• No meat, poultry, fish, dairy products or oils (incl. Olive Oil)
• Eat vegetables (except avocado), fruits, legumes and whole grain products (Plant Based Diet).
His Web site: Heartattackproof.com, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. has a natural way to heal patients from the nation's No. 1 heart hospital and demeaning angioplasty, stents, etc. Invasive treatment is a mainstay of cardiac care, and it pbeen affiliated with the hospital for 40 yearsays the bills. It's also what's wrong with medicine, says the retired Cleveland Clinic surgeon who has
.The Book Behind Bill Clinon's Life-Changing Plant Based Diet
Dr. Esselstyn has invested Major Time & Energy and in effect turned his life's work to demonstrating that heart disease doesn't need to exist in the 1st place. And if it does, it can be reversed. The remedy is a Plant-based Diet, he continually says.
- Learn to live with no meat, no fish, no dairy or oils of any kind, and make yourself "heart-attack proof."
- Most doctors would agree a strict vegetarian diet is good for the heart. But the idea that a diet free of animal products and fat can cure the No. 1 killer in America is still a controversial view among doctors.
- Drug cos are in fierce competition to find a cholesterol drug that does what Esselstyn argues can be done better through diet. The call to attack artery-clogging plaque naturally is a challenge to the medical profession and an unspoken threat to the bottom line of the medical industry. Our Immune Systems is what Dr. Esselstyn says will be the WNNERS. ( We all wholeheartedly agree)
Dr. Esselstyn provided his message to all comers, and now has been on CNN's Wolf Blitzer with former pres. Bill Clinton (and Dr. Dean Ornish) who adopted his Plant Based Diet. Clinton is now at his High Scholl weight and feels better than he has in MANY years. Our bodies are real miracles - Especially - IF we provide the right fuels for them to operate EFFICIENTLY !
Esselstyn, while still in a white lab coat, told MANY assembled in Clinic classrooms that treating heart disease with stents, statins and other expensive invasive methods is not the answer. He strongly recommended that all medical people & others recognize and accept that the body, given the right fuel, can restore coronary arteries damaged by the fatty Western diet.
Why utilize a stent etc. when the right diet (Plant Based Organic) will do?
Esselstyn, a robust 6-foot-3 former Olympic gold medalist, has outlined the specifics of the human heart along with thespecifics of the heart's plumbing system to convince skeptics. He has shown X-rays of arteries belonging to patients who undertook his nutrition program. The X-rays showed vessels narrowed by disease that appeared to open after patients shunned burgers and fries, etc. for greens and grains.
"Why do you have to have an operation or stent?" Esselstyn has repeatedly asked rhetorically. "Your body can do this so simply."
Esselstyn and his wife, Ann, have followed a plant-based, oil-free diet for more than 26 years. He has studied a number of heart patients under his counsel during that time and reports their remarkable success in an EXCELLENT book called "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease." Buy it Bill Clinton did!
He lives in Pepper Pike and is part of a small fraternity of prevention activists who say a vegetarian diet can protect the heart, the best known of whom is best-selling author Dr. Dean Ornish. Both were on with Bill Clinton & CNN's Wolf Blitzer discussing Bill's weight loss and good color.
"What really keeps me on fire about this is we have an epidemic of disease in this country that doesn't need to exist," Esselstyn said in an interview. "It's so ridiculously simplistic to turn around this epidemic, it's scary."
A Quality Plant Based Diet calls for meaningful change and some discipline.Simplistic perhaps, but also a bit demanding. The Esselstyn diet means never saying you ate "pretty good," or you only had a little ice cream.
Dr. Esselstyn resume:
A Great man - Dr. Caldwell B. Essesltyn, Jr.
• Age: 74
• Member of Yale rowing team that won gold medal in 1956 Olympics.
• U.S. Army surgeon during the Vietnam War.
• Married to Ann Crile Esselstyn (below), granddaughter of Cleveland Clinic co-founder Dr. George Crile.
• Cleveland Clinic surgeon for 31 years.
• Quote: "I became disillusioned with a lot of what we were doing in medicine. No matter how many operations I did, I wasn't doing anything for the next victim." Every forkful of fat, he says, causes an immediate biochemical assault on the endothelium, the lining of the arteries. White blood cells collect there, gobbling up bad cholesterol and creating fatty deposits over time. For many people, especially those who smoke or have other risk factors, accumulation of plaque is a time bomb for a coronary event.
It might take something like that to convince an average meat-eater to adopt the Esselstyn diet. Even then, you wonder how many people at a heart attack survivors' convention would line up at his table.
Many drs might agree with Esselsytn, but few are likely to push the no-mercy diet on patients, simply because current medial thought tends to STILL consider a quality diet to be unachievable.
"This diet is looked at as extreme as you can get, so many physicians instead of going to the extreme, go somewhere in the middle," said Dr. Joe Crowe, director of the breast center at the Clinic. Crowe has followed Esselstyn's program since he suffered a heart attack at age 44 in 1996. He learned a new way of eating and said that once your taste buds adjust, you stop liking the taste of fat. You learn which restaurants to eat at and how to navigate social functions, which for Crowe involves moving stuff around the plate "so it looks like I've eaten something." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZendyXhU4
He was lean and healthy, with no sign of heart trouble when his heart attack struck. He learned that the lower third of a main artery leading to the front of his heart was significantly narrowed. They call this vessel the "widow maker." Crowe wasn't a candidate for surgical intervention, so he turned to Esselstyn. 2 1/2 years later, an angiogram showed the diseased artery was normal.
A need for large-scale trials by an entrenched medical system? Take a look at Dr. Neil Pinckney -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZendyXhU4
Esselstyn has meticulously followed more than a dozen patients with advanced coronary disease who adopted his program. He writes in his book that patients saw cholesterol levels plummet and their angina disappear. After five years, 11 patients who underwent follow-up angiograms had stopped or reversed progression of the disease, he wrote. "Patients with heart disease and their families, their greatest fear is when the next shoe is going to drop," Esselstyn said. "This is a very powerful gift they have given themselves and their families."
He counts cardiologists among those who have come knocking at his door for help. But he is first to admit he has not won a large number of believers at the Clinic. He tiptoes carefully on the subject of how his mantra plays there as many careers are at stake.
Many still, even chairmans of cardiovascular medicine at our medical hospitals, say Esselstyn's premise is unproven because there have not been a rigorous study to show whether diet alone can reverse coronary disease. "This is the reality," these so called experts say. "We need to do the large-scale trials that somebody has to fund." Most Drs.tell patients NOT to go out and buy a book and decide that's what you're going to do. I STRONGLY suggest that WE ALL must learn to rely on the Power of our bodies, NOT on a revenue driven medical system.
As a retired Investment Banker that financed MANY firms (All revenue & profit driven), I see the American medical system as a "strongly revenue driven, out-of-control monster". It seems that "healong & Curing", by Natural Quality Diet means is a dangerous Revenue destructive concept. As America ranks 47th in Longevity in the world, ranks BADLY in healthcare along with Staggering costs, the USA medical system MUST CHANGE NOW ! They are a MAJOR reason the United States is facing dangerous financial debts, along with Wall St. and Politicians. Our Healthcare system is a "No Heal- No Cure" human Disaster.
Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. is "One of the MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE of the past 20 years".
His willingness to "Buck an entrenched and damaging system is without parrallel, and I SALUTE him as a man of Honor, Integrity and Strength Commited to "Make A Difference" in the world ! He is enhancing the quality of Life of Millions of Americans, as well as others worldwide.
Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr also was a creator of http://recumbutt.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/forks-over-knives/ the critically important "Forks Over Knives" documentary:
What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers—and now, their life-changing research is
making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives. Their answer? Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet—it could save your life. It may overturn most of the diet advice you’ve heard—but the experts behind Forks Over Knives aren't afraid to make waves. In his book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn explained that eating meat, dairy, and oils injures the lining of our blood vessels, causing heart disease, heart attack, or stroke.
In The China Study, Dr. Colin Campbell revealed how cancer and other diseases skyrocket when eating meat and dairy is the norm—and plummet when a traditional plant-based diet persists. And more and more experts are adding their voices to the cause: There is nothing else you can do for your health that can match the benefits of a plant-based diet.Now, as Forks Over Knives is introducing more people than ever before to the plant-based way to health, this accessible guide provides the information you need to adopt and maintain a plant-based diet. Features
include:•Insights from the luminaries behind the film—Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. John McDougall, The Engine 2 Diet author Rip Esselstyn, and many others Success stories from converts to plant-based eating—like San’Dera Prude, who no longer needs to medicate her diabetes, has lost weight, and feels great!
•The many benefits of a whole-foods, plant-based diet—for you, for animals
and the environment, and for our future
•A helpful primer on crafting a healthy diet rich in unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, including tips on transitioning and essential kitchen tools
•125 recipes from 25 champions of plant-based dining—from Blueberry Oat
Breakfast Muffins and Sunny Orange Yam Bisque to Garlic Rosemary Polenta and
Raspberry-Pear Crisp—delicious, healthy, and for every meal, every day.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta seems to agrees with me, along with MANY others, and hosted an EXCEPTIONAL show called: The Last Heart Attack - http://sanjayguptamd.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/29/sanjay-gupta-reports-the-last-heart-attack/ also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Unn7LjFkI and also http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/sanjay-gupta-bill-clinton_n_940155.html
2011 VIP's
Esselstyn's wife, Ann, who is granddaughter of The Cleveland Clinic co-founder George Crile, is also an important partner in his efforts. She authored a chapter in the book and contributed a volume of recipes, from banana french toast to veggie stuffed peppers. Ann also asks people she meets right off what they ate for lunch. Together they counsel patients in their home, hosting four-hour sessions on how to shop, cook and eat in ways that most people never contemplated. Ann accompanied her husband on his recent Clinic lecture, cradling a bundle of leafy greens to demonstrate the art a Plant Based Diet.
Ann Crile Esselstyn Plant Based Diet Lady
Who knows? In a Huge Medical System known for revenue producing heart treatments, etc.,we may see the best cardiac treatment in the world, become kale, spinach and collard greens, and also be recognized by many millions to be " just what the doctor ordered".
As a man that beat Stage IV Metsaticized Prostate Cancer, with NO chemo or radiation, by learning how to go on a STRICT Plant Based and spent about 10,000 hours (since diagnosis 4-07) leaning about our miraculous immune Systems, and what makes them work efficiently, I feel qualified to name ----
Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. as "2012 Man of The Year"
CNN: “The Last Heart Attack” One-Hour
Special Featuring Doctor Caldwell Esselstyn
and Former President Bill Clinton
Posted on July 29, 2011 On Aug 21, CNN will air a one-hour special on heart disease called “The Last Heart Attack” , featuring the work of Forks Over Knives’ expert Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and an interview with former President Bill Clinton. The piece will be narrated by Emmy-award winning correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
See the video from last year on CNN. Wolf Blitzer interviews Forks Over Knives’ expert Doctor Caldwell B. Esselstyn, who is also one of the doctors behind Former President Bill Clinton’s dramatic weight loss and transition to a healthy lifestyle through a plant-based diet. (It got delayed see updates)
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Please note that what I accomplished - ANYONE CAN DUPLICATE - after all we are all about the same, and I have white hair, am 75 years old and am VERY fortunate to have a critically IMPORTANT asset, my wife that likely saved my life. My own version of Ann Esselstyn & Dr. Cadwell Esselstyn combined - all-in-one!
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