“As a result of the emerging awareness that what you eat largely determines your health, the concept of food as medicine is gaining momentum. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic published a study last year in The Journal of Family Practice demonstrating that patients with coronary artery disease eating a whole food plant-based diet had approximately a 30-fold decrease in cardiovascular events (heart attacks, strokes, placement of coronary stents, and heart surgery) when compared to patients treated with conventional strategies. Unlike conventional medical and interventional therapies — which at best slow the progression of coronary artery disease — 70 percent of Esselstyn’s patients actually have some degree of reversal of their coronary artery blockages … [Indeed], cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension are all virtually unknown among Central Africans, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, the peoples of rural China and the highland tribes of New Guinea. What these peoples all have in common is their diet. They all consume an unprocessed, plant-based diet with no dairy or animal products … Hundreds of scientific studies demonstrate that a ‘whole food plant-based diet’ will lead the way to less cancer, less heart disease, less diabetes, fewer strokes, less osteoporosis, less Alzheimer’s disease and less obesity. Conversely, our diet, or the ‘standard American diet,’ will continue to lead us down the path to disease, infirmity and bankruptcy.” ~ Dr. Staton Awtrey (Thoracic Surgeon)

Well there you have it … Even if you don’t care about animals at all, certainly you care about your Loved Ones, and certainly you care about yourself, right?

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