Post by Dance Away on Sept 25, 2010 2:30:10 GMT -5
I saw this video on CNN yesterday. It's very sobering.
It's a wake-up call for me at age 47, 30 lbs overweight, and eating processed junk food, meat, and dairy when I know this stuff is slowly killing me.
I've been entertaining the thought of going vegan for several years now.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to the doctors behind the diet that helped Bill Clinton lose two-dozen pounds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yaaypVmaI
Another Wolf Blitzer interview:
Bill Clinton On Plant-Based Diet To Reverse Heart Disease - HuffPost TV
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/bill-clinton-cites-dean-ornish-weight-loss_b_734168.html
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Clinton at McDonalds
www.hulu.com/watch/4169/saturday-night-live-clinton-at-mcdonalds
It's a wake-up call for me at age 47, 30 lbs overweight, and eating processed junk food, meat, and dairy when I know this stuff is slowly killing me.
I've been entertaining the thought of going vegan for several years now.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to the doctors behind the diet that helped Bill Clinton lose two-dozen pounds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yaaypVmaI
Another Wolf Blitzer interview:
Bill Clinton On Plant-Based Diet To Reverse Heart Disease - HuffPost TV
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/bill-clinton-cites-dean-ornish-weight-loss_b_734168.html
Bill Clinton Extols the Virtues of a Plant-Based Diet
www.huliq.com/10061/bill-clinton-extols-virtues-plant-based-diet
by Paula Duffy
9-22-2010
Bill Clinton, a lover of hamburgers and all things greasy, has become a vegetarian. He has lost weight and is attempting to prevent another heart episode.
The former U.S. President sat down with Wolf Blitzer of CNN to talk about a plant-based diet. Since changing what he eats in a radical manner, Clinton has lost 24 pounds, returning to his high school weight, according to him. It wasn't just about how heavy he was, because he got very thin after he underwent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery six years ago.
Despite eating healthier and exercising, Clinton endured a heart episode in early 2010. It isn't uncommon, he was told, that bypass patients continue to suffer from weakening of the arteries which restrict blood flow to the heart. Surgeons inserted two stents in the affected artery and told him that he shouldn't be alarmed if it happened again. Knowing Bill Clinton, you'd expect that he wouldn't be satisfied with the news that he couldn't fix himself.
He told Wolf Blitzer that he read up on the situation, talked with his doctors and found a way to keep himself from his having plaque continue to block up his arteries. In his research, the former President found that since 1986, 82% of people who commit to a plant-based regime are able to keep their blood flowing without blockage.
Here is a summary of what he eats now: plants, vegetables, fruit, legumes, beans, fish on a rare occasion protein shakes and that's about it. He refrains from meat of any kind, whether it is beef, chicken or pork and consumes absolutely no dairy.
The eating regime doesn't just keep the stents at bay, it actually begins to heal the cause of the blockages themselves, says Clinton. The calcium deposits around the heart break up, which puts less strain on the weakened arteries and veins.
He began to search for answers after his daughter Chelsea asked him to lose weight prior to her wedding day. Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. of the Cleveland Clinic published a paper on his research, about alleviating the explosion in the United States of cardiac episodes caused by blocked arteries.
With almost 25 years of results on the record, Clinton took the plunge. He hopes to live to see Chelsea's child or children and believes he can avoid the "sins of his past." No more McDonalds for Bill.
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Clinton at McDonalds
www.hulu.com/watch/4169/saturday-night-live-clinton-at-mcdonalds