>>34720957>>34734682Lets look at his first claim;
>Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)He cites a reference showing that “a plant-based diet of primarily whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes can completely prevent heart attacks.”
This is a quotation from an article in the Food and Drug Law Journal, and the footnotes there only send us to Caldwell Esselstyn’s flawed research.
Esselstyn studied only a small number of patients who already had heart disease, and he treated them with statin drugs in addition to diet, and their diet included skim milk and low-fat yogurt. You can read my criticism of his research here. It is ludicrous to interpret that research as showing that a plant-based diet can completely prevent heart attacks.
A more accurate interpretation is that patients (only a few patients in one study) who had already had a heart attack did not have a second heart attack while being treated with cholesterol-lowering medications and a diet that was largely plant-based but also included foods derived from animals.
>TLDR>a handful of people have heart attacks>feed them drugs and plants>YAY, THREE OF THEM ARE CURED OF HEART ATTACKS!That's Michael Greger for you, cherry-picking shit sources to force his agenda...