Vegetarian Star

At the young age of 40, Lance Armstrong has so many accomplishments to his name.

Multiple Tour de France winner. Testicular cancer survivor with a foundation (Lance Armstrong Foundation @ Livestrong.org) that empowers others living and beating the same disease (80 million people with those yellow bracelets couldn’t be more fashionable). Ironman competitor. A new line of fitness equipment. And now. Perhaps his greatest achievement ever…a vegan until six and Engine 2 Diet athlete.

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The best way to prevent and extinguish high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes is through food. Rip Esselstyn, author of The Engine 2 Diet, was lucky enough to have a cardiologist father who had seen the benefits of how a plant-based diet revered heart disease in his patients. But as a firefighter in Texas, he saw his fellow fighters trapped in a dangerous situation that no safety and rescue equipment could fix.

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On Wednesday, April 27, Dr. Oz will share the stage with several other doctors–all known for advocating a vegan diet for good health.

Joining Oz for his special vegan episode will be Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, and Neal Barnard, MD. Rip Esselstyn, son of Dr. Esselstyn, author of The Engine 2 Diet and firefighter who convinced his station to go vegan to solve many of their health problems, will also be present.

Two years ago, Oz featured a meat-loving cowboy named Rocco who embarked on a 28-day vegan diet. Rocco lost 6 inches from his waist, reduced his blood sugar from dangerously high to almost completely normal and raised his good HDL cholesterol levels.

A preview of Wednesday’s show can be viewed below.

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Rip Esselstyn

Rip Esselstyn has partnered with Whole Foods Market to guide customers in making the best choices for dinner, which consists of items that have roots in the ground, not an animal.

The author of the best selling book, “The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan That Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds,” who turned his fire station veg explained to the Huffington Post that most people are “plant weak,” when they should be what he calls “Plant Strong.”

“I tell people, right now we have a country that is plant-weak. If you were to look at caloric pie of how Americans eat, close to 60 percent of America’s calories are coming from refined and processed foods. You know, the white stuff: the fried chips, the soda pop, fruit juices, doughnuts and cakes.”

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Forks Over Knives, a documentary that suggests America’s health problems can be overcome by a switch to a plant-based diet, has partnered with Whole Foods and the store’s Healthy Eating Partner, Rip Esselstyn, author of “The Engine 2 Diet,” to offer a series of pre-screenings of the film. Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia sponsored the first screening, which sold out in July.

The following are some of the tour dates for when “Forks Over Knives” will be screening in a city near you. For exact time and location, check with your local Whole Foods Market.

• Nashville, TN–Wednesday, October 6th

• Chicago, IL–Tuesday, October 19th

• Fort Collins, CO–Wednesday, October 20th

• Los Angeles, CA–Thursday, November 11th

• Portland, OR–TBA

• Seattle, WA–TBA

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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.”

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Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey recently told USA Today that the store will be unveiling a new, private label line next year that famous vegan firefighter and author Rip Esselstyn would approve of.

“We’ll introduce a private-label line in 2011 based on the healthy eating book The Engine 2 Diet,” Mackey said. “We’ve licensed that brand. It’s vegan (no animal fats) with no canola or safflower oils, and low in sugar and salt.”

The line offers products similar to what Mackey eats, but he insists that has nothing to do with its creation.

“Though that is the way I live, it is not my personal lifestyle driving this. We think it will be a good product category for the company.”

Looks like vegs will be ringing in the New Year with another option in good food.

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Rip Esselstyn

Rip Esselstyn got a congratulatory package from the Texas Beef Council after his book that describes the vegan diet that allowed the firefighters at his station to lose weight and improve their health, The Engine 2 Diet, became a success.

The Beef Council sent brisket to not only Rip’s house, but every fire house in Austin, Texas.

Some people have no manners, you know?

“At first I was pissed, but then I thought, This is amazing, because it shows how worried they are; it shows that they recognize that people’s consciousness is changing and that this is something for them to worry about,” Rip said. “I thought, Wow, how ballsy of them!”

The author and firefighter has an interview with Supervegan about tofu, vegan cheese, his partnership with Whole Foods and more.

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