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Originally Posted by Carla B

Several years ago I met and talked to someone at the Houston Yacht Club who said he was a heart patient and was told by his doctors that he must eat no meat, poultry, fish, or dairy products. Imagining his severely restricted diet, I felt so sorry for him. Now, I bet he was following the Ornish diet. Dr. Ornish used to practice in Houston and preached that heart disease could be reversed by diet.

Years ago, in the late '70s, we ran into a couple at a campground. The husband had been to Pritikin because of a heart condition and was on a very restricted diet. We visited them one evening in their mobile home. The equivalent of one whole room in that mobile home was filled with the required special grains , flour, a flour milling machine, bread machine and other associated stuff that he required to maintain that special diet. It's a good thing they were retired because they had to spend all day preparing meals.