Reddit reviews Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

Yes!!!! Like the other post says - unless you're an athlete protein isn't really a concern, assuming you eat a fairly balanced, healthy diet. If you are an athlete I can't recommend this book enough. Actually, all of his books are great.

I went vegan over 4 years ago and have never felt better or been healthier in my life! Plus it's nice to know that I'm doing my part to help animals and the planet. Here's a list of some other books/resources that have helped me immensely along the way, for anyone else who might be considering the transition:


Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

Oh She Glows (Food Blog)

Keepin' It Kind (Food Blog)

It takes work and is difficult at first, like most things in life that are worthwhile, but I promise you that it is very, very rewarding once you understand that you have made the commitment to live in a healthy and kind way. :)

I hope he recovers! Moreover, I hope he changes his diet so that he doesn't need further bypass operations. Maybe the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn would convince him.

EDIT: Particularly the book: "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn"

Yes, it is possible to make arterial plaques regress significantly by switching to a plant-based diet. See the scientific papers (and books which are easily read by laypeople) of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Full of great references, and the books explain the science beautifully.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002/ref=nodl_
   
   
   
   
   
   

You might want to take your mind off of your troubles by reading this book while you are recovering.

It is written by the cardiac surgeon who created the diet President Bill Clinton used to recover from his bypass operation.

Good Luck


Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: by Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.

You could show him Dr. Esselstyn's book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease.

This is the absolute bible on the subject:

https://www.amazon.de/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002

Forks over Knives is also a good resource, as is anything by Dr McDougall (The Starch Solution, The McDougall Plan) and Dr Greger (How not do die).

All the best!

> "takeaway meals", "bought sweets"

This has nothing to do with carbs. You're eating shitty processed food.

> carbs like french fries

You mean food literally engulfed and soaked with fat?

> I know that being a raw fruitarian for a while brought havoc to my system and I became borderline anorexic and hypoglycemic (possibly due to under-eating).

If you get hypoglycemic on a diet consisting mostly of sugar you're SEVERELY undereating and it has nothing to do with the macros or type of food you're eating. You're going from starving yourself to binging on fat. How about actually eat enough calories from fruits/vegetables/grains/beans/nuts/seeds without needlessly trying to complicate things for yourself?


http://www.amazon.com/The-China-Study-Comprehensive-Implications/dp/1932100660

http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002

http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Barnards-Program-Reversing-Diabetes/dp/1594868107

http://www.amazon.com/The-UltraMind-Solution-Broken-Healing/dp/0743570480

http://www.amazon.com/The-Starch-Solution-Regain-Health/dp/1623360277

You can find these books online for free if you don't have the money as well. They have some clinical data and information which will help you understand what's healthy. You don't have to read all of it, but I highly suggest looking in that direction.

>the only person to reverse heart-disease in the world" makes me think you're full of shit.

Fair enough, it is a bold claim, so I do apologise for presuming you have heard of him.

• Here is his research publication where he saved the lives of 20 patients by putting them on a oil free vegan diet:
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2100124/
  
  
• He then went on to do the study again with 200 patients which had 1 year expected life span, most of them are still alive 20 years later (the ones that followed his diet!). And he writes about it in his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002 and this contains references to all of the studies he based his work on (there's hundreds in there)
  
  
• There is a documentary about him called Forks Over Knives on Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/au/title/70185045
  
  
• here is his talk summerising his research (long version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1varIImYec) (short version TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKNfyUPzoU)
  
  He's also not the only person to recommend no oil consumption, and all of these plant-based doctors speak against oil too their books or talks: Whether it's Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Pam Popper, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Garth Davis, Dr. T.Colin Campbell, Dr Michael Klaper and the other 700 of them :-)
  
  
  Anyway I'm a huge fan, as you can probably tell, because if the general public followed his advice, we'd have approximately 14 million fewer heart-attack deaths each year! It blew my mind, because I always assumed that heart-disease was a result of getting old, and it turns out it's generally not. I hope it blows your mind too :-)
  
  

My Beef With Meat

The Starch Solution

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

I'd start with Esselstyn's book.

Then take a look at Engine 2 Diet. He actually has a new book out too: My Beef with Beef - though I haven't read this one yet.

Lastly, check out Colin Cambell's China Study.

Also anything by Neal Barnard & John MacDougall. All these and other related books are available at libraries!

No-oils vegan is a thing some people do.

http://www.amazon.com/Engine-Diet-Firefighters-Save-Your-Life-Cholesterol/dp/0446506699/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462415409&sr=1-1&keywords=engine+2+diet

http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462415364&sr=1-1&keywords=Esselstyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_o4YBQPKtQ

Diagnosing people you don't know with mental illnesses over the internet is, at best, rude.

Here are the three books Pres Clinton sent to the author after the author had a heart attack in 2010:

Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
by Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.


The China Study
by T. Colin Campbell et al

Yes to both. Here's a book on a cardiac program that uses a vegan diet to reverse heart disease.

As for the farting, as your microbiome/gut flora changes with your diet, you fart a bit less. It seems like a lot at the start though.

Are nuts and avocados oils? NO! Oils are olive oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, etc. Dr. McDougall is not the only one to recommend no oils. Dr. Esselstyn, who has done extensive research on the prevention and reversal of heart disease also recommends no oils.

Nuts, seeds, and avocados are all okay on the diet in small amounts. It is only recommended not to overindulge, as they're very calorically dense and it can impede weight loss (if that's the goal).

John McDougall is a very respected vegan doctor, author, and personality.

I just finished reading the Starch Solution, and I would say it is pretty good info. I eat a whole foods plant based diet, which is the healthiest type of vegan diet. On r/vegan there's a lot of junk food vegans.

http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002

I have found the two following books to be very helpful on the subject...

The China Study

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn has done amazing work in reversing Heart Disease in severely sick people. He has the arterial and vein scans to show exactly what his nutritional plan can do. Both books are must reads in my opinion.

I read the Barry Groves link. So you really buy into that? Gorilla eats leaves and somehow he twists that to meaning they eat a high fat diet? That goes against common sense. His website had it's HON code certification marked invalid. I can see why.

Please read this and comment if you have time:

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-the-misinformation-of-barry-groves-and-weston-price.html

Again, I quote from the JACN, ""Regardless of the diversity in scientific approach, evidence converges around the notion that diets associated with reduced risk of CVD, some cancers, diabetes, and several other chronic diseases are heavy in vegetables and fruit (therefore rich in phytonutrients and antioxidants) but reduced in meat, refined grains, saturated fat, sugar, salt, and full-fat dairy products."

How can you refute that? I urge you and anyone else who follows the Weston A Price diet to stop reading the Masterjohn, Minger, and other Paelo authors and get a different perspective from Esselytn, Fuhrman, McDougall :

http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322838099&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322838196&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-100-Scientifically-Healthiest-Longest-Lived/dp/0345490118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322838272&sr=1-1

Sincerely, good luck with your diet and your health. I don't think we're going to change each other's minds on this but I enjoy the debate.

i recommend looking at this book

https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002

and anything from Caldwell B Esselstyn on youtube.

Preventive care costs 21 bucks: https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002