Tag: advocates

• Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes

  For a person with Type II diabetes, the problem is that sugar (glucose) is not able to pass from the bloodstream into the cells. Since the glucose cannot get into the cells, it ends up in the blood stream and removed from the body in urine.

  It seems obvious that if you have too much sugar in your blood then you need to limit the amount of sugar and starch in your diet. Starches are complex carbohydrates that consists of many glucose molecules.

  The diet of people that live in countries that have low incidence of diabetes do not have a diet remotely like the standard diabetic diet. They eat a diet that is high in complex carbohydrates.

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  30 October 2013

• About Richard Harding

  I have been a lecturer in nutrition in Newcastle, Australia at WEA Hunter and has been involved in the design of nutrition courses for degree and diploma qualifications in Health Sciences.

  I worked in the IT industry since the 1970s as a computer programmer, system designer and project manager for companies such as CBC Bank, National Australia Bank, Burroughs Australia and Unisys working on projects for ANZ Bank, State Bank of NSW, Health Insurance Commission (Medicare), NRMA, Reserve Bank of Australia, City Bank, North Power, Chase Manhattan Bank and ACIRL (Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories).

  I worked as the system manager for a large pathology business that had a network of 10 pathology laboratories, from Coffs Harbour in northern NSW to Sydney - a distance of 500 km (300 miles) which operated online 24 hours a day for 6 days a week.

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  My website consists of over 140 webpages and with more than 120,000 words. Most are related to health and nutrition with others relating to the environment, agriculture, philosophy and psychology. Many issues that the ancient Greeks wrestled with are still relevant today.

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  2 July 2013

• John Robbins

  John Robbins is dedicated to creating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet. He serves on the Boards of many non-profit groups working toward a thriving, just, and sustainable way of life.

  He now works with his son, Ocean Robbins, in developing the Food Revolution Network.

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  1 July 2013

• Dr Caldwell Esselstyn

  Dr Esselstyn is a US surgeon who has researched the effects of diet and health. He is one of the doctors along with Colin Campbell and Dean Ornish that Bill Clinton has credited with his health transformation.

  He won an Olympic gold medal in rowing at the 1956 Olympics. He was an army surgeon in Vietnam, a member of the Board of Governors of the Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s top cardiac centres and was named in 1994-1995 as one of the top doctors in USA.

  Dr. Esselstyn demonstrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease but also reverses its effects.

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  1 July 2013

• Dr Neal Barnard

  Neal Barnard, MD, is a clinical researcher, author, and health advocate. He has been involved with a number of clinical trials investigating the effects of diet on health.

  He is an associate professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and the president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

  His book, Dr Neal Barnard's Program to Reverse Diabetes Now, outlines a whole-food, plant-based diet that reverses diabetes, prevents and reverses heart disease and other common ailments.

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  1 July 2013

• The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism – William Harris, MD

  Dr Harris was born in 1930. He is a pilot, trampoline exponent and long term nutritional advocate.

  His book The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism is a landmark study in nutrition.

  Animal source food is adaptive when there's not enough food, but in a world with abundant and diverse plant foods, animal source food is obsolete and only causes problems.

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  1 July 2013

• Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead – Joe Cross

  Joe Cross – 40 kg overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope.

  He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle.

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  1 July 2013

• Professor Katharine Milton – Professor of Physical Anthropology at University of California (Berkeley)

  Professor Katharine Milton – Professor of Physical Anthropology at University of California(Berkeley).

  She has published many papers regarding nutrition and dietary ecology in primates, including apes, early humans and modern humans. Other research interests include conservation biology, nutrient and anti-nutrient components of wild plant and digestive physiology.

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  1 July 2013

• Dr Dean Ornish

  Commencing in 1977, Ornish has directed a series of clinical research studies proving, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes could not only stop the progression of heart disease, but could reverse it.

  These lifestyle changes included a whole foods, plant-based diet, smoking cessation, moderate exercise, stress management techniques including yoga and meditation, and social and community support.

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  1 July 2013

• The China Study

  Colin Campbell was a nutritional biochemist at Cornell University. In the 1960s, he was involved in nutritional programs in the Philippines to help families provide for their critically undernourished children. Peanuts were one of their preferred sources of protein. It is a legume – great for improving the soil, easy to grow and is nutritious and tasty.

  At the same time, children younger than 10 were dying at alarming rates from liver cancer. Normally liver cancer is an adult disease. And the children dying from the disease were from the most affluent suburbs in Manilla. These are the families that could afford the best housing and the best food.

  Whilst in the Philippines, he read a paper in an obscure medical journal. Rats were fed aflatoxin – one of the deadliest carcinogens known. One group of rats was given a diet of 20% protein – and they all died of liver cancer. The second group was given a diet of 5% protein – they all lived. 100% deaths compared to 0 deaths. They were all fed aflatoxin – but only those rats that had a high protein diet died.

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  1 July 2013