eniac zei:
Snel typen betekent dat je langere en foute zinnen maakt?
Hoeveel dokters denk je dat er zijn die niet met jouw stellingen akkoord zullen gaan?
En het beste voorbeeld dat je nu even snel kan aanhalen is een dokter die al 70 jaar dood is? Een periode waarin de wetenschap enorm geëvolueerd is?
Ik had voor hem gekozen, omdat hij een grote invloed heeft gehad op de geneeskunde. En ook op voeding, namelijk Kellogg's cornflakes gekend door bijna iedereen in Europa en Amerika.
Hedendaagse dokter: "Dean Ornish, M.D., is one of the foremost advocates of vegetarianism in the Untied States.
Perhaps the most recent distinguished non-Adventist scientist to come forward urging
vegetarianism is Dean Ornish, M. D. His professional pedigree is impressive:
assistant clinical professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco,
School of Medicine; attending physician, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center,
San Francisco; and present and director, Preventive Medicine Research Institute,
Sausalito, California.
His recent findings were little short of startling. Writing in Hospital Practice, May 15,
1991 (“Can Lifestyle Change Reverse Coronary Atherosclerosis?”), Ornish
reported that “by combining a strict low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate aerobic
exercise, abstinence from smoking, and stress management training,” his study
group was able to show “measurable regression of disease in patients with severe
coronary atherosclerosis.”
Recently challenged on his view, Ornish ticked off the reasons for his vegetarian stance:
! “Even severely blocked arteries began to unclog in the majority of heart patients
when they stopped eating animal products and made other simple lifestyle
changes.” Atherosclerosis can be reversed.
! A December 13, 1990, study in the New England Journal of Medicine provides
persuasive new evidence that the more red meat and animal fat women ate, the
more likely they were to get colon cancer. Harvard’s Dr. Walter Willett, chief
director of the study, declared, “The optimum amount of red meat you should eat
should be zero.”
! Dr. T. Colin Campbell of Cornell University directed a landmark study of 6,500
persons in mid-1990. He found that “the more meat they ate, the more likely
they were to die prematurely from coronary heart disease, colon cancer, breast
cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer, among others.”
! “Many athletes are forgoing the pregame steak for foods high in complex
carbohydrates because they find that eating less meat often increases their
endurance.”
! Most beef is “still very high in fat and cholesterol. Studies also indicate that
meat protein and perhaps other substances in beef raise the risk of cancer and
heart disease.”
! Eating meat makes you fat.”
In his conclusion, Dr. Ornish played on a recent slogan of the American beef Association (“Beef.
Real food for real people.”) with the words “meat. Real food for real death.”"