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Vote: | A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. |
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Vote: | Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. |
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Vote: | Everybody has a gene for fat storage, which is located on chromosome 8, and its effects become obvious on our thighs and waistlines. But it essentially shuts off if you keep fat out of the foods you eat. If your fat-storage machinery has nothing to work with - no fat to store, that is - it quits. |
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Vote: | For people with very resistant weight problems, I recommend favouring carbohydrates that release their sugars very slowly, as I mentioned earlier. For example, white bread releases its sugars a bit too quickly, while rye or pumpernickel release them very slowly, which is an advantage. |
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Vote: | I am not so sure that we'd want to eliminate menopause. After all, if human fertility went on indefinitely, we'd have no end to health problems and population problems. If anything, it would be helpful to see puberty arrive later and menopause arrive a bit earlier. |
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Vote: | I grew up in North Dakota, and come from a long line of cattle ranchers. Once I arrived in medical school, it became clear to me that the diets so many people are on - and that I had grown up with myself - are major contributors to health problems; heart disease, many forms of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, overweight, and many others. |
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Vote: | I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. |
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Vote: | I wrote this book to show how the body actually works. I also wanted to relate the findings of our own research studies. |
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Vote: | If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. |
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Vote: | In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. |
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Vote: | In our research we use low-fat, vegan diets and find that the resulting weight-loss is about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds per week, week after week after week. We also see dramatic improvements in cholesterol. |
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Vote: | Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. |
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Vote: | PCRM has been doing clinical research trials with Georgetown University for several years. There is also tremendous research literature on the effects of genes on weight and how their expression can be changed. I felt that it was essential for people to learn about it. |
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Vote: | Surprisingly enough, there are genes that determine your exercise ability. If you really cannot stand running and jogging, for example, it is not due to weak will. It is because your genes did not give your developing muscles the same rich blood vessel network that athletes have, so you tend to tire easily. |
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Vote: | To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. |
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Vote: | We are used to thinking that the actions of genes cannot be changed. And, for traits like eye colour or gender, that is true. But the genes for storing fat or burning it are not dictators giving orders. I think of them more like committees making suggestions, which is to say that we can influence their actions. |
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Vote: | We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change. |
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Vote: | When I founded PCRM in 1985, I was practicing at a large New York City Hospital (St Vincent's). I became troubled by the fact that doctors spent virtually no time with prevention or nutrition, and was also bothered by continuing unethical research practices, some of which involved animals and others of which involved humans. |
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Neal D. Barnard is a medical doctor, author, clinical researcher, and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a national network of physicians and lay supporters that supports preventive medicine. He also initiated the Cancer Project, a program for cancer prevention, research, and nutritional assistance to cancer patients. Barnard is an outspoken advocate of low-fat, vegetarian diets.
Barnard grew up in Fargo, N.D. He received his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He is now an adjunct associate professor of medicine at GWU and is also a life member of the American Medical Association.
Barnard's work has appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the Journal of American Medical Association, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, among other scientific and medical journals. He has written numerous books about nutrition for lay readers. These include The Power of Your Plate (1990), Eat Right, Live Longer (1995), and Breaking the Food Seduction (2003).
One of Barnard's most high-profile causes is his opposition to low-carb diets. In media interviews, books, and on the web, he has expressed the opinion that low-carb diets pose a serious threat to public health. For example, he has written that low carb diets have "convinced millions of people to buy into two dangerous notions: that avoiding carbohydrates is the key to weight loss, and that high-fat, high-cholesterol foods pose essentially no risk."
References *Barnard, Neal D. (2004). The controversy over Dr. Atkins' health. Good Medicine, XIII (2–3), pp. 6–8.
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