Vegetarian Star

You’ve heard it from Bill Clinton himself first. Now, the doctors behind his motivation for following almost a completely vegan diet are talking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on how more people should adopt the plan that can prevent and reverse heart disease.

Dr. Dean Ornish has been Clinton’s physician consultant since 1993 and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn is the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and the father of the Texas firefighter Rip Esselstyn who authored The Engine 2 Diet and convinced his fellow firemen at the station to eat veg to improve their health.

Dr. Esselstyn says, “When you do what President Clinton has done, when you completely try to remove any foods that are going to injure your vessel, the body has this remarkable capacity to begin to heal itself. And I’m afraid that as a medical profession we perhaps have fallen down and really emphasized too much the drugs and the procedures and the operations which really treat the symptoms. They do not treat the causes of these illnesses.”

The causes of these illnesses, Esselstyn insists, in continuing to eat “anything with a mother, anything with face.”

“Rather than getting a quick fix like a bypass or a stint does, which doesn’t treat the underlying cause” says Dr. Ornish, “it’s a little like mopping up the floor around a sink without turning off the faucet.”

“It’s keeps coming back unless you change what caused it.”

With the evidence that following a plant-based diet can cure heart disease, and with Clinton going public, it most certainly will be on the minds of people willing to make a change for their health. But will physicians be ready to answer the call to this treatment?

A survey by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine found that while 82% of cardiologist routinely ordered dietary changes for their patients, only 13% often or always recommended or ordered a low-fat vegetarian diet for their patients. Most cited concern with patient preference or that the patient was not likely to follow this prescription.

Perhaps a care package of tasty vegetarian treats and a cookbook upon discharge from the hospital could enhance compliance on both sides?

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