The movie "Forks Over Knives" examines the idea that eating a plant based diet can help prevent, or even reverse, most of the degenerative diseases that are affecting so many of us. Dr. Esselstyn goes a bit further than just be vegan. He also think you should avoid all oil, nuts, and avocados. Though if you do not already have heart disease, avocado and nuts are acceptable. He believes that by eating a diet that consists of 10% calories from fat, you can halt and/or reverse coronary heart disease.
He started a 12 year study in 1985 in which heart patients that could no longer be helped by surgery or conventional medicine. All of his patients showed vast improvements in their total cholesterol, none of the patients that followed his diet exactly had any further heart attacks, and in some cases there were angiograms available as before and after pictures. It certainly gives me hope, and I am working on starting to eat a plant based, no oil, and no nut diet.
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