If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the United States, it is quite likely you will develop heart disease. Shockingly, approximately two out of every three twelve-year-olds in the US has early signs of cholesterol disease. Heart disease is devastating to both our health and our economy. It’s the leading […]
Scientific Research
Healthcare–3rd Leading Cause of Death in United States
According to a John Hopkins study done in 2016, medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.–right behind heart disease and cancer–causing more than 250,000 deaths annually. Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to […]
Disarming Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet
Diabetes is a major public health problem of epidemic proportions. Eleven percent of the U.S. adult population has diabetes (up from 8 percent in 2007), and nearly one-third of those 65 and older have the disease. Uncontrolled, diabetes can lead to complications from head to toe, including stroke, loss of vision, heart disease, kidney failure, […]
Patient Refuses Bypass Surgery after Googling Plant-Based Nutrition
I have heard a lot of amazing cases, but this is the first one where a patient, just hours from surgery, Googles his way out of a bypass. I had the pleasure of hearing this story first-hand from the author, cardiologist Dr. Robert Ostfeld, founder and director of the Cardiac Wellness Program at Montefiore Medical […]
Do Our Genes Load the Gun and Our Lifestyle & Environment Pull the Trigger?
Do our genes load the gun So many of us feel like victims of our gene pool. If Mom had breast cancer and Dad died from heart disease, we feel doomed. I used to feel that way too, because my family is riddled with chronic disease. It was freeing to discover that I don’t have […]
