Dean Ornish, MD
(1953 - present), president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
"I don't understand why asking people to eat a
well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is
medically conservative to cut people open and put them on
cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."
“People tend
to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a
high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that
the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle, what we eat, how we
respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise
we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as
powerful as drugs and surgery. But they often are.”
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