Category: Motivational

The China Study Documentary

Early 1990s

[Editor: I am so excited to find this documentary. I am a graduate of T. Colin Campbell’s Center for Nutrition Studies and I didn’t even know it existed. Enjoy!]

T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies

In the early 1990s as the first results from the China Project were being published, a Cornell documentary crew began months of filming in Mongolian villages, Shanghai communes, Beijing hospitals, and research facilities at Oxford and Cornell Universities to create a video that would capture the scope and significance of the study.

The film is narrated by Mary McDonnell (Dances With Wolves, Battlestar Galactica, Grand Canyon).

For more information on the China Project visit: https://nutritionstudies.org/the-chin…

The T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, co-author of the internationally best-selling book The China Study. Our mission is to promote optimal nutrition through science-based education, advocacy, and research. By empowering individuals and health professionals, we aim to improve personal, public, and environmental health.

Study finds how micronutrient in human breast milk linked to newborns’ brain development

“As a neuroscientist, it’s intriguing to me how profound the effects of micronutrients are on the brain,” says Biederer. “It’s also amazing how complex and rich human breast milk is, and I now think it is conceivable that its composition is dynamically changing to support different stages of infant brain development.”

https://theprint.in/science/study-finds-how-micronutrient-in-human-breast-milk-linked-to-newborns-brain-development/1691854/

Sally B. Went Starch-Based and Healed Painful Arthritis & More

I was in a wheelchair with arthritis when I found [McDougall’s] starch-based eating lifestyle. I gave up dairy totally, began going vegan and within 3 weeks, I was able to walk. I had arthritis in my fingers so much so, typing was difficult. My hands are now useful again.

[…]

My husband would not follow my lead into being vegan even though he saw how much I thrived. The last year he worked while getting ready for retirement, he was having trouble with having to urinate frequently at night. He went to a urologist at Kaiser Permanente and was diagnosed with prostate cancer and it was stage 4! He had robotic-aided surgery and it was successful. It was terrible pain for him. I insisted he now try the food I was cooking for myself, it really does taste good and now there are two vegans who live more happily than ever before as we feel so well now all the time.

[…]

My oldest and our youngest son, won’t talk to their vegan parents — they’re so in love with MEAT. Fortunately, our middle son is a great man who has twin boys, with his sweet wife or my heart would just break. Believe me, I know about coping with rejection and sadness but you really do not get used to it.

[…]

My mother and sister both died of breast cancer. I nursed our 3 boys and even though I was eating like every other fool in this country, the cancer did not come my way. I think God knew I had enough on my plate with the hyperhidrosis and am most thankful for that. 

[…]

I would have given anything to have been raised vegetarian! But I am now. My husband Jim may not have even been alive either if he hadn’t changed his diet. Three other men where he worked had prostate cancer who retired about the same time as my husband. They chose chemo and radiation with no change of diet. All were dead within 6 months. My husband does get tested annually for PSA and has not had one bad test. I take no meds and Jim is slowly weaning off his blood pressure pill. 

https://www.drmcdougall.com/education/star-mcdougallers/sally-b-went-starch-based-and-healed-painful-arthritis/?utm_source=McDougall+Newsletter+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=1435dc0da6-Sally+B.+Went+Starch-Based+and+Healed+Painful&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_96b24b2189-1435dc0da6-93094081&mc_cid=1435dc0da6&mc_eid=33215bfb5e

42% Americans are living with obesity

March 23, 2023

More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults are obese, with states in the South and Midwest showing some of the highest prevalence, a new analysis from NORC at the University of Chicago shows.

Why it matters: Obesity is associated with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke and other conditions that are among the leading causes of preventable, premature death.

But strategies for treating obesity are changing, with doctors prescribing a new class of drugs in record numbers despite questions about their long-term effects and a hefty price tag.

The details: West Virginia and Mississippi have the highest obesity rates at 51%. The District of Columbia had the lowest obesity rate at 33%, followed by Colorado at 34%.

  • Obesity disproportionately impacts Black and Hispanic Americans, the analysis found.
  • Obesity rates are determined in part by using Body Mass Index ranges, which have been called into question for correlating weight and health too closely, the New Yorker reported.

Of note: The NORC analysis was produced with funding from Novo Nordisk, a company which produces both insulin and Ozempic, one of the popular weight-loss drugs.

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/23/norc-share-americans-obesity

DR. MICHAEL GREGER – ALZHEIMER’S CURE: How My Mother Beat Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v5FJFtXNSdI&feature=share

Dr Michael Greger is the Physician, bestselling author, and speaker who advocates a plant-based, whole foods diet to reverse and prevent, fatal disease and illness. 

He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Tufts University School of Medicine, and his New York Times bestselling book “How Not To Die” examines the fifteen top causes of death in America. 

He has appeared in numerous documentary films including “What The Health”, “Prescription: Nutrition” and “Eating you Alive.” 

AND 

Michael Greger’s website, nutritionfacts.org, has thousands of videos giving research-based advice, about specific foods and health-related issues. 

DR. MICHAEL GREGER: 

Website: https://drgreger.org/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts

Veganism as Politics (or religion)

0:00 Mike Mutzel responds to Plant Chompers

2:27 My TEDx talk: vegan activism?

5:29 Mike’s view of vegan scientists

6:07 Mike is a supplement salesman

12:22 Mike’s concerns about me

15:59 Explaining ApoB like we’re 5

20:27 Explaining ApoB with a paper

21:40 Berberine

25:10 Thomas Dayspring on lipids

28:03 Mike’s heart disease guests

33:44 Insulin and the pancreas

36:24 My other reasons for being vegan