@USAF-Larry wrote:
Maybe I'll wait for the video....
@USAF-Larry,
I doubt if there will be a video unless it's filmed at a seance.
I'm beginning to experience what kept so many doctors and others quiet through the years. Everyone considers Dr. John Kellogg a quack because they don't read what he wrote and they don't understand he worked primarily with constipation. He lived to be 91.
People malign Ancel Keys because they say the seven countries in the study he did were cherry picked from 22 countries. He lived to be 100.
I recall Jack Lalanne saying he was going to live into his 90's when I watched him on TV in the late 50's or early 60's. He lived to be 95.
Dr. Ken Cooper, the inventor of the term "aerobics" is best known for recommending exercise and then Jim Fix dying. He is 84 or 85, runs every day and works over 60 hours a week running a clinic in Dallas and curing heart disease and other degenerative diseases.
T. Colin Campbell, who did the China Study everyone loves to hate is 80 years old, healthy and active. He is reversing heart disease at the Cleveland Clinic.
Nathan Pritikin died with leukemia when he was 69. He fought it for over 20 years in a time when there was no cure. He started his research after a severe heart problem, and when he died, he had clear arteries.
Dr. Ornish is the youngster at 63. He is curing heart disease through diet.
Dr. McDougall is 69. He had a severe stroke when he was around 20 years old and wasn't expected to live. Now he has no sign of disease, working long hours and an active wind-surfer.
Dr. Furhman is 63, healthy and active. He is curing heart disease and other degenerative diseases through diet.
Dr. Denis Burkitt, who is best known for pointing out the need for more fiber in our diet, broke the diet code during the 18 years he was the minister of health in Uganda. He died when he was 82.
Dr. Esselstyne, from Forks over Knives is about 83 and still working to cure people from heart disease and other degnerative diseases through diet.
Dr. Neal Bernard is carrying on Nathan Pritikin's work. He is 63. (1953 was a good year. I was born then, too.)
Dr. William Kempner, who created the somewhat controversial rice diet and showed the link between food and longevity lived to be 93. Most of the doctors listed above stood on his shoulders.
They aren't all vegan. Dr. Ornish is probably the least vegan of them all. The point is, all of these people are exchanging information. Well, the live ones are. This group is a longitudinal study of a particular type of diet that prevents degenerative diseases. I'd have to go back and read their individual books, but a healthy 90 years old is considered almost a layup, and now they are quietly saying an active 100 years old is doable.
They are all a great example of a "public and private" opinion. Publically, they can only recommend a diet that won't turn off the world. Privately, meaning there are only obscure statements saying a couple simple things they have essentially the same recommendations: Get less than 10% of your calories each day from fats of any kind -- preferably around 7%. Don't eat any refined sugar. Don't smoke. Get some exercise. Tracking only fats forces a particular diet that is high enough in proteins and high in carbohydrates.
Moderation doesn't work because of its effect on chloresterol levels. You can read Dr. Pritikin's work to learn why a low chloresterol level on a fatty diet isn't healthy.
There is something else I've noticed the living doctors doing recently. I'll keep that part of my private opinion.
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