Caldwell Esselstyn quotes

“Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

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“Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

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“Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

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“As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

Source : Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2007). “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure”, p.10, Penguin

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“Heart disease is a food-borne illness.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

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“Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

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“I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

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“Heart disease is a foodborne illness.”
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

Source : "Eating your way to heart health". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. January 30, 2013.

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“In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.”

Source : a.c.dixon (1962). “the glories of the cross”

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”

“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”

“The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”