Great SF Chron Diet Op-Ed by T Colin Campbell (PhD) & Caldwell Esselstyn Jr (MD)

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It all starts with diet

Federal 'guidelines' are too fatty

 

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/ED3K16FAI8.DTL

 

" ...Congress should require that medical schools ... offer residency programs on

dietary

approaches to preventing and treating disease. Americans don't

understand the disease-fighting power of a good diet because their

doctors don't. Medical schools teach a drug-centered curriculum. They

do not learn about the many population-based studies that show the

connection between diet and disease. They do not review the biochemical

studies on disease formation that support the population-based studies.

And they do not study the results found in treating disease with diet

in clinical settings. Drugs and surgery can offer miraculous benefits

in certain cases. But it's unconscionable for doctors not to know about

- or tell their patients about - the preventive and healing power of

food. "

 

And, on-line editorial (but not in print?): A Safer Dinner Table

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/EDN116HCTL.DTL

 

" This country's tattered food safety system keeps breaking down: sick

cattle processed by slaughterhouses, tainted produce and contaminated

peanuts that have killed nine consumers.

 

" What's needed is a top-to-bottom overhaul, the kind that President Obama seems

intent on pushing through... "

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