"The vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases,
and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented
simply by adopting a plant-based diet."
to the American Institute for Cancer Research
"If you change to a vegan diet, and do it very vigorously,
you have enormous power. You can reverse heart disease.
You can prevent it. You can, I believe, prevent most cases of
cancer if you combine dietary changes with avoiding tobacco.
You could prevent probably 70% or 80% of cancers,
just by those steps alone. And, obviously, there’s a whole host
of other diseases that you would be able to live without."
NEAL BARNARD, M.D.
President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
author, Turn Off The Fat Genes
"Patients fed a vegan (meat and dairy free) diet
during an intensive 12-day live-in program experienced
an average reduction of 11% in total cholesterol levels.
Most patients also lost weight
and had improved blood pressure levels."
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NUTRITION, 1995
"A low-fat plant-based diet would not only lower
the heart attack rate about 85 percent,
but would lower the cancer rate 60 percent."
WILLIAM CASTELLI, M.D.
Director, Framingham Health Study;
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Blood cholesterol levels of vegetarians
compared to non-vegetarians:
14% lower
Blood cholesterol levels of vegans
compared to non-vegetarians:
35% lower
Risk of death from heart disease for vegetarians
compared to non-vegetarians:
Half
Chicken has about as much cholesterol as beef.
There is simply no escaping the correlation
between meat consumption and cholesterol levels.
JOHN ROBBINS
American author,
Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Diet for a New America,
(excerpt from The Food Revolution, Conari Press 2000)
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