From Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn …
We need to get the word out across America …. It’s unfortunate, but collectively, the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat. Indeed, some people think a plant-based, whole-foods diet is extreme. Yet, half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. We have created a billion-dollar cardiology industry for a disease that doesn’t even exist in half of the planet.
It is very clear that heart disease is a food-borne illness. I am delighted to serve on the Advisory Board of the nonprofit PlantPure Communities, which is working to bring healthy food and science-based nutrition to low-income and food-desert communities.