According to the Director of the famous Framingham Heart Study, the best way to manage cholesterol and heart disease risk is with a more plant-based diet. Why then, don’t more doctors advise their patients to change their diets?
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Dr. Ornish talks about how diet can be more sustainable than drugs, since compliance is more based on love-of-life rather than fear-of-death. See his editorial in Convergence of Evidence (
More on how lifestyle medicine is not only safer, and cheaper, but more effective:
• Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (
• Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine (
• Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (
• What Diet Should Physician’s Recommend? (
Many physicians just weren’t taught the power of diet:
• Doctors Know Less Than They Think About Nutrition (
• Medical School Nutrition Training (
But there have been cases of the medical profession actively seeking to limit further nutrition training. See my series about a bill in California:
• Nutrition Education Mandate Introduced For Doctors (
• Medical Associations Oppose Bill to Mandate Nutrition Training (
• California Medical Association Tries to Kill Nutrition Bill (
• Nutrition Bill Doctored in the California Senate (
Why not take drugs every day for the rest of our lives instead of using dietary change? That’s the question I ask in my video Fast Food: Do You Want Fries With That Lipitor? ( Not only is that not treating the root cause, but there are potentially serious drug side-effects. See, for example, Statin Muscle Toxicity ( and Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer (
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