100 great vegan quotes

I found this great website and thought I'd share it. It is filled with wonderful quotes from a variety of people who all speak to kindness, empathy and not killing animals. I highly recommend it.

http://www.pledgevegan.com/vegan-spotlight/top-100-vegan-quotes

Thanks,
Ambrose

Wonderful interview with Chef AJ

Chef AJ has written a book called, "Unprocessed" which is available on her website.

It's a wonderfully direct book with lots of great tips, however, she is also a wonderful interviewee!

www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-health/easy-tips-to-minimize-your-consumption-of-processed-foods/

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Ambrose

Funny interview with Lance Armstrong!

As some of you may know. Rip Esselstyn who is a famous "Plant Strong" former triathlete, has recently been training again with his former competitor, Lance Armstrong who is also a former triathlete before he focused on cycling. Rip mentioned this in the presentation I attended at the Whole Foods market in Annapolis, Maryland back a few months ago. I just read an article on Lance Armstrong where he mentions his training buddy, Rip. It's quite humorous how he describes Rip's diet! The brownie part is particularly humorous!

"http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/29/lance-armstrong-2012_n_1262237.html"

Here's a section of the interview that mentions Rip. There's more in the article. HPC is the interviewer and LA is of course, Lance.

"HPC: Do you have a certain way you approach food?

LA: I didn’t for a long time until about a month ago until I started messing around with this new diet.

HPC: What changed?

LA: I started swimming again, and I swim with a guy [ed's note: former triathlete Rip Esselstyn] who started basically a food program called the Engine 2 Diet, which is a plant-based, 100% natural, organic diet. His dad was a famous cardiologist who did Forks Over Knives, and was President Clinton’s doctor. Clinton has gone to a completely vegan diet and he’s essentially erased his heart disease.

It’s basically whole grains, different types of beans, kale salad with creative alternatives for dressing. They’ll bring out something that looks like a brownie, but it’s not a brownie … though it tastes a bit like a brownie. So I did it for one day, then two days. Then I branched out and started doing it at breakfast and lunch. I still insist that I get to do whatever I want for dinner. But it’s made a significant difference in just in a month."

How do you prevent animal abuse?

You prevent animal abuse by blocking animal rights people and reporters from finding out about it!

Republican Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa has signed into legislation a law designed to prevent folks from reporting on animal abuses! It states that anyone who lies in order to work on a farm (essentially to film what is going on) can now be prosecuted with jail sentences of up to 1 year and $1,500 or more if found guilty more than once! Read it for yourself.

http://goo.gl/Z2GKl

This is not the way to improve factory farms covering up the problems certainly doesn't help!

Amazing!

Ambrose

Meat is the new Tobacco!

I saw this on Huffington Post and had to repost it. Kathy Freston mentions Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. in her indictment of meat being a major cause of chronic and fatal illness in the general public. This is a wonderful read!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/animal-products-cancer_b_1316222.html

More later,
Ambrose

Rip Esselstyn and Jeff Novick in Horse Play!

It's good to see these health advocates having so much fun!

I met Rip Esselstyn in Annapolis

I enjoyed meeting Rip Esselstyn at the Whole Foods in Annapolis on the 19th of January. He is a dynamic speaker and had a great time doing his presentation. There was also a showing of "Fork over Knives" which is a terrific movie that shows how eating a Plant Strong diet can really change your life.

Thanks to Whole Foods for putting on the talk. They are leading the way in changing America's eating habits!

I wish that my camera worked since I (almost) got a picture of us together!

More later,
Ambrose

Doctor Terry Simpson Refutes Dr. Esselstyn

I just saw this video and thought I'd share my thoughts on it. First, Dr. Terry Simpson's comments on Dr. Esselstyn's diet.

Now that you've seen this video, I'd like to offer some comments.

1. If you want to sound credible when refuting someone, get their name right! It's Dr. Caldwell EsselStyn, Jr. M.D.
2. If you say that a study was invalid because it was done during the Cultural Revolution, then offer a reason why it's invalid instead of just saying that people were dying of starvation. It was the largest study of it's kind ever. You can't quibble with why the study was done!
3. When you look at coronary angiograms for a patient who cannot receive normal heart interventions, that isn't the case with the patient named Dr. Crow. He wasn't able to receive an angioplasty or a bypass and (luckily for him) worked with Dr. Esselstyn who recommended his diet to Dr. Crow which saved his life!
4. I don't believe Dr. Esselstyn talks about atherosclerosis or cholesterol levels as an indicator of heart disease at all. He talks about platelet plugs as the primary cause.
5. Exercising alone won't do much of anything to prevent and reverse heart disease.
6. Quitting smoking is a great idea, but it won't prevent and reverse serious heart disease. I can't believe that smoking is the leading cause of heart disease since rates of heart disease have not decreased in this country yet many people have quit smoking which you state yourself!
7. Reducing weight alone will not prevent and reverse heart disease. Losing weight will help in your general health, but it won't improve your cardiovascular health very significantly at all.
8. Eating a vegan diet without oil isn't "an obscure diet that nobody can follow that's tasteless." You haven't tried it. It's actually quite simple and how tasty it is depends entirely on your cooking/preparation skills.

You've really missed the point on this. Plant-Strong, oil-free diets are delicious, healthy, and not difficult to follow at all, unless you're addicted to eating a typical Western diet of meat-laden, oil-soaked, highly processed foods which is so typical here in America. Our country is becoming obscenely obese and our rates of heart disease haven't come down even though we have the best medicine in the world with the best medications in the world. The easiest way to improve America's health is to eat healthier, non-heart damaging foods and to live an active lifestyle.

Thanks for listening.
Ambrose

Doctor Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. does TEDx Cambridge

I see that Doctor Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. appeared at TEDx in Cambridge. He does a 15 minute presentation.

It's a great way to get a quick capsule summary of his thesis, of which I'm a great fan!

Ambrose

Rip Esselstyn coming to Annapolis!

I've just signed up to attend a presentation by Rip Esselstyn (son of Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. MD), author of the best selling cook book, The Engine 2 Diet. He will be in Annapolis, Maryland on the evening of January 19th to do a 28 day diet challenge to go Plant Strong for 4 weeks! The sign up page is here:

http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=226581

He will start at 6:00 PM and go until 9:00 PM. I plan on picking up a copy of his Engine 2 Diet book there.

Hope to see you there too!