Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish
Dean Michael Ornishis an American physician, and president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, as well as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is known for his promotion of what he believes to be healthy diets, particularly vegetarianism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth16 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
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Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.
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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
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The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'
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Diet and other lifestyle changes play an important role in the development of many health problems. Now we have evidence it can slow the progression of prostate cancer.
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The whole point of science is to help people sort out conflicting science, and nowhere is there more conflicting claims than in the area of diet, ... It's important to bring together good scientists. Good scientists say, 'Show me the data.'
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This is not the definitive study, but it certainly advances the field and it adds new information about how powerful these simple changes can be,
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that the progression of prostate cancer may be beneficially affected by making comprehensive changes in diet and lifestyle.
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what affects prostate cancer may also have implications for breast cancer as well.
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While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
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Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.
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What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.
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A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
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The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.