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Originally Posted by jimbo2012

This NY Times 2/25 article cites the following

" Not everyone is convinced, though. Dr. Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr., the author of the best seller “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure,” who promotes a vegan diet and does not allow olive oil, dismissed the study.

His views and those of another promoter of a very-low-fat diet, Dr. Dean Ornish, president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, have influenced many to try to become vegan. Former President Bill Clinton, interviewed on CNN, said Dr. Esselstyn’s and Dr. Ornish’s writings helped convince him that he could reverse his heart disease in that way.

Dr. Esselstyn said those in the Mediterranean diet study still had heart attacks and strokes. So, he said, all the study showed was that “the Mediterranean diet and the horrible control diet were able to create disease in people who otherwise did not have it.”

There two Dr's are perhaps the most noteworthy on preventing heart attacks within our culture.

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OK so I guess the implication is that since people still had heart attacks and strokes we should ignor the results? If so I guess we should also ignore any vegan diets results since people on a vegan diet also have heart attacks and strokes. I guess all we really know is life is a fatal condition