Source: The Spectrum; and Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease.
Dr Ornish arranges food in five groups creating a spectrum of food choice; Group 1 being the healthiest, and Group 5 the least healthy. He briefly describes the foods in these groups as follows: Continue reading
Source: Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, MD.
Your goals are the same as the patient with coronary artery disease: get thin and aggressively treat your risk factors. With time, your body will normalize your numbers. Keep the following guidelines in mind: Continue reading
Source: McDougall Newsletter – Feb 2004
… A low-fat vegetarian diet has been shown to reverse heart disease (arteriosclerosis), the number one killer of diabetics. Many other researchers have praised a low-fat vegetarian diet as the best approach to prevent and treat most diseases that plague people in modern societies, including people with diabetes. Possibly the most important effect of this dietary approach (combined with exercise) is the scientifically established fact that this is the easiest and most effective way to lose weight permanently. Obesity is the underlying cause of diabetes. (my emphasis) Continue reading
Source: www.pmcr.org – Good Medicine Magazine – Autumn 2006
These are the highlights of his program:
Diet changes are the cornerstone to treating type 2 diabetes. …
The way of eating explained below does not require weighing or measuring, and you will never go hungry. Continue reading
Source: The Spectrum (A Scientifically Proven Program To Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, Gain Health) – by Dean Ornish, MD
“Like the obesity pandemic, and a large part because of that, diabetes has become epidemic. It’s the fastest-growing disease in United States, …”
“Diabetics have a shorter life expectancy than people without diabetes.”
“The consequences of diabetes are serious — eye damage that can lead to blindness, kidney damage that can lead to kidney failure, nerve damage that can lead to impotence, damage to the arteries in the heart that can lead to coronary heart disease, and damage to the arteries in the arms and legs that can lead to amputation. …” Continue reading
Dr. Campbell was the principle investigator for the largest nutrition study in history, commonly known as The China Study, a joint study project with Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine. It received major funding from the National Institute of Health and the Chinese government.
In his book, The China Study, Dr. Campbell documents the results they found. Continue reading
Neal Barnard, MD – Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes.
Source: www.nealbarnard.org/diabetes_book.htm
“A new book by nutrition researcher Neal Barnard, M.D., outlines a completely new dietary approach to preventing, controlling, and even reversing diabetes. The program is based on a series of research studies Dr. Barnard and his colleagues have conducted over the years, the latest funded by the National Institutes of Health. Published in the August 2006 issue of Diabetes Care, that study found Dr. Barnard’s program to be three times more effective than the American Diabetes Association dietary guidelines at controlling blood sugar. Continue reading
Simple techniques can be used to modify recipes that follow the typical American or Western nutrition strategy into much healthier Asian, Mediterranean or Vegetarian nutrition strategies that are the basis of the Nutrition Strategy used for recipes presented in this blog. These modified recipes are much healthier and still taste wonderful. Continue reading
Simple techniques can be used to convert typically high fat recipes into healthy low fat recipes without sacrificing good taste. The techniques in this post are from the healthy nutrition and lifestyle books by Dean Ornish MD, one of the nutrition and medical experts who have influenced the Nutrition Strategy used for recipe analysis and makeovers in this blog. (Buy his books here.)
Some of Dean Ornish’s Low Fat Cooking Tips and Techniques are listed after the jump: Continue reading
There are thousands Epidemiological, Migration, and Research studies offering data on health consequences of nutrition.
Epidemiological Data:
There is overwhelming evidence that suggests a Western diet or nutrition strategy results in obesity and long term chronic health problems and disease, in contrast to good health and longevity associated with a Vegetarian, Asian, or Mediterranean diet or nutrition strategy.
The largest nutrition study in history was The China Project. T Colin Campbell, PhD, the principle investigator, summarized the results of this study in his book, “The China Study”. It also confirms the results of studies conducted by other researchers which are published in peer review professional journals.
(Among other sources, these data are discussed in the published works of our nutrition and medical experts.) Continue reading