Now I'll add this which is a message to vegans from the ex-vegan who
wrote the long criticism I posted below.
<http://rawfoodsos.com/for-vegans/>
Thankfully it's much shorter. It's his prescription of what's required
to supplement your vegan diet in order to remain healthy assuming you're
committed to a vegan diet.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/28/2013 9:47 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Rather that try to work through all of this again I decided to do a
> Google search for criticisms of Esselstyn's work. My first hit was even
> more than that, a criticism of a movie called “Forks Over Knives” which
> features not only Esselstyn's work but also several other vegan
> promoters.
> <http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/09/22/forks-over-knives-is-the-science-legit-a-review-and-critique/>
>
>
> I haven't read the entire thing (it's huge and takes a long time to
> load) but it's pretty clear from the critique that, at least what's
> presented in the movie, is pretty *selective* science... you just ignore
> the inconvenient bits that disagree with your hypothesis. I'd had
> enough after about 10 pages and there are very many more than that.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 4/27/2013 2:20 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>> With replies from Charlie and Chuck, maybe this ought to be my last
>> posting
>> on this topic for a while.
>>
>> At the outset, I do not believe that, as Nathan put it, what Drs
>> Prendergast
>> and Esselstyn are disseminating, is snake oil.
>>
>> Far from it. This is all serious, science and evidence-based, information
>> which can be used simply by anybody to prevent / minimise premature death
>> from athersclerosis and considerable human suffering where athersclerosis
>> has maimed but not yet killed outright.
>>
>> The messages from Drs Esselstyn and Prendergast contain very similar
>> material, but each arrived at where they are by different routes.
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