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• Forks Over Knives -- changes lives
  • Biggest issue with veggie...
    • Did it help your gout?
      • Not sure yet.
        • I'll offer a suggestion.....
          • Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselstyn MD
            • I changed my diet and was able to stop medications for cholesterol
              • Yeah the typical office worker lifestyle is not conducive to good health...
              • Been trying to walk a couple miles every day. So far, so good.
              • The cholesterol theory is very poorly supported by evidence..
                • I had a doc try to put me on Lipitor
                • The medical profession is just like the Internet
                • Doesn't one thing lead to another?
                  • High cholesterol will not lead to blockage of the arteries...
                    • true, but
                      • Can you come up with a single study that shows that?
                        • free enterprise doesn't exist
                          • Animal Fat
                            • That trend is unlikely to continue
                            • This is simply not supported by science...
                • C'mon guys...
                  • What DDW wrote is true -- there is only weak correlation between cholesterol levels and coronary disease
                  • Even with familiar cholersterolemia, the benefit of statin is NOT a reduction in cholesterol...
                  • And that's really it....cholesterol/trigs AND family history are important to consider.
                  • What About My 90 Year Old Dad ... bunches of slabs of bacon and eggs every morning...
  • Had Thai veggie last night.