{"id":481,"date":"2014-08-08T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T10:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/?page_id=481"},"modified":"2018-11-15T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T15:34:23","slug":"study09","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/study09\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revolution to Restore America’s Health Crisis: The Scientific View"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D and\u00a0 T. Colin Cambell, PHD<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the medical expenditures of this nation approach 20% of the gross domestic product and have reached 25% of the government\u2019s budget, we urgently seek relief.<\/p>\n

Where can we expect help to come from to ease this burden?\u00a0 It will not come from universal health insurance or increasing Medicare payments.\u00a0 It will not come from a new \u201cpill\u201d or \u201cprocedure.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will come when we in medicine and science share with the public knowledge of a life style which will diminish and eliminate our common chronic killing diseases.
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\nHow is this accomplished?\u00a0 Asking the public to stop smoking, exercise and eat a healthful diet has not worked\u00a0\u00a0 It is time to be more specific. Maintain advice to stop smoking and exercise, but convert to complete plant-base nutrition without oils, dairy and meat. Promote educational videos on social media through real views, with a lot of help from professional social media company<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Epidemiologic evidence and scientific study confirm this recommendation.\u00a0 One of us, (T. Colin Campbell) in his best selling\u00a0The China Study<\/em>\u00a0recounts his finding of virtually no cardiovascular disease and rarely any western cancer in Chinese provinces which had not yet industrialized and were consuming plant-centered nutrition.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet as soon as these provinces gained wealth and could afford animal based foods,\u00a0 there was a prompt emergence of western cardiovascular diseases and cancer.<\/p>\n

A similar example in North America are the Tarahumara Indians thriving in the mountains and canyons of northern Mexico.\u00a0 They consume a spartan food plan of squash, beans and corn.\u00a0 Cardiovascular disease is absent and their strength and stamina are legendary.\u00a0 When carefully studied by Dr. William Connor, they are free of any vitamin, mineral, or nutritional deficiencies. Cardiovascular disease is also missing in Central Africa except in the Masai who as herdsmen live on milk, blood and meat.<\/p>\n

Coauthor Caldwell B. Esselstyn,Jr. in his book,\u00a0Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease<\/em>summarizes his twenty year study applying plant based nutrition to patients seriously ill with coronary artery heart disease.\u00a0 All compliant patients halted their disease beyond twenty years, often with striking evidence of disease reversal in their arterial photographs (angiograms).\u00a0 This included patients who were told at the beginning of the study by expert cardiologists that they would not live a year.\u00a0<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

This experience is a refutation of the argument by many physicians that patients would not switch to or maintain plant-base nutrition.\u00a0 In addition to reversing heart disease, we have witnessed reversal of carotid artery disease to the brain, elimination of leg pain (claudication) from arterial disease and restoration of erectile function.<\/p>\n

By way of contrast studies now show us how rampant cardiovascular disease has become.\u00a0 By age twelve school children develop thickening of their carotid arteries to the brain.\u00a0 Fully 80% of twenty-year old soldiers, dying in combat, are found to have coronary artery heart disease.\u00a0 That figure is now raised to 100% in a more recent study of those men and women between the ages of 16 to 34 years who have died of accidents, homicides and suicides.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lewis Kuller, professor of public health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as a result of his decade long cardiovascular health study made the following statement: \u201cAll males who are 65 years of age and all females who are 70 years who have been exposed to the typical western diet have cardiovascular disease and should be treated as such.\u201d<\/p>\n

It appears that nobody eating the typical western diet escapes.\u00a0 All scientists agree on the nutritional causation of the disease but there is a divergence of opinion on therapy.<\/p>\n

The basic science on this disease causation is now clearly understood, but is unknown by the public and even many physicians.\u00a0 The life jackets for sustaining our vascular health are the single layered endothelial cells, which line all our blood vessels, and the magical gas nitric oxide, which the endothelial cells produce.<\/p>\n

Nitric oxide permits smooth non sticky blood flow, dilates (widens) our blood vessels, inhibits development of blockages and destroys inflammation.\u00a0 The reason this wonderful system falters is because each meal of oils, dairy products and meat has been shown to injure and incapacitate endothelial cell function ultimately leading to vascular disease.<\/p>\n

It took us many thousands of years to finally make the public aware of how damaging the smoking of tobacco is for human health.\u00a0 Despite a spineless government and a powerful tobacco lobby science triumphed.\u00a0 More recently the scientific scrutiny of processed oils, dairy products, fish, fowl, and meat confirms that these foods are injurious to health.<\/p>\n

If this were poison ivy the advice would be to stop touching it.\u00a0 Knowing the foods that injure our blood vessels, the advice should be to stop eating them.\u00a0 This approach works.\u00a0 It is inexpensive, prompt, enduring, and the patient now becomes the locus of control of the disease.\u00a0 Yet this approach is infrequently utilized. Why?.<\/p>\n

Physicians are unaware of this treatment.\u00a0 They are unschooled in nutrition and behavioral modification.\u00a0 They are not financially compensated for this activity and do not have time for counseling in the detail this method requires.\u00a0 Other health professionals, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians\u2019 assistants, dietitians, and nutritionists can develop these counseling skills.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Even for physicians who see heart disease patients to refer them for their counseling is conflicted.\u00a0 Physicians who use intervention are enormously financially rewarded although they freely admit they are not treating the disease and merely accomplishing stopgap plumbing.\u00a0 Outside of emergencies these interventions do not prolong life or prevent new heart attacks.\u00a0 The procedures of stents and bypass surgery cost over 100 billion dollars in 2006 and stents alone consumed 10% of the Medicare budget.<\/p>\n

The pharmaceutical industry would be horrified to see the heart disease epidemic controlled.\u00a0 Statin drug sales alone generate 21 billion dollars to the industry.\u00a0 While there has been talk of putting them into our water supply and giving them to children, that enthusiasm has been recently chilled by the careful study of Dr. Beatrice Goloomb of the university of California at San Diego.\u00a0 Her painstaking review of 99 articles on statin drugs reveals a heretofore unrecognized plethora of serious side effects.\u00a0 The stent industry also receives billions of dollars each year and were panicked at the thought their drug eluting stents might be causing clotting and premature death.<\/p>\n

The United States government is too politically crippled to halt nutritional disease epidemics.\u00a0 The United States Department of Agriculture every 5 years designs the food pyramid for all Americans.\u00a0 In as much as all officers of the USDA have previously held executive positions with the cattle, dairy, pork and egg industry, it is not surprising that each new pyramid contains the foods that guarantees millions of Americans will perish each year.\u00a0 The fox is in the henhouse.\u00a0 Having the USDA prepare our food pyramid is like having Al Capone prepare our income tax return.<\/p>\n

In summary, the only forces against resolution or our most serious diseases are medicine, industry and the government.\u00a0 The billions of income they receive from preserving the status quo make them a formidable adversary.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the forces for health can prevail if they educate the public in the transformational power of plant based nutrition to cure and prevent disease.\u00a0 Why would anyone enjoy a meal knowing they were about to\u00a0 injure the lining of their blood vessels?<\/p>\n

\u00a0The same nutrition which eliminates heart attacks and stroke also eliminates obesity, diabetes, hypertension, the common western cancers, gallstones, diverticulitis,. osteoporosis, dementia, erectile dysfunction and frailty to mention a few.\u00a0 Such an enlightened public could embrace a paraphrasing of John F. Kennedy, \u201cAsk not what your country can do for your health, ask What you can do\u00a0 for your health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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