Caldwell Esselstyn Quotes

• Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Taken, Food, Thinking

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• Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

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  Gun, Lifestyle, Genetics

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• Heart disease is a foodborne illness.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Heart, Disease, Illness

  "Eating your way to heart health". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. January 30, 2013.

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• Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

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  Pyramids, Design, Als

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• As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

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  Physicians, Needs, Disease

  Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2007). “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure”, p.10, Penguin

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• Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

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  Government, Media, Oil

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• I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Heart, Disease, Vegan

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