The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt suggests an explanation for why many of our most common and deadliest diseases were rare or even nonexistent in populations eating plant-based diets.
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More on this incredible story in One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-in-a-thousand-ending-the-heart-disease-epidemic). How do we know that diet was the critical factor? Because when we place people stricken with these diseases on plant-based diets, in some cases their disease can be reversed (Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped http://nutritionfacts.org/video/our-number-one-killer-can-be-stopped/). In fact it was the work of Burkitt and others in Africa that led to the disease reversal work of pioneers like Nathan Pritikin (Engineering a Cure http://nutritionfacts.org/video/engineering-a-cure/).<
So if our major and commonest diseases are a result of lifestyle, why don’t more doctors practice lifestyle medicine? See: Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease/). How can we inspire change in the profession? I’ll take a stab in my next video, Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convincing-doctors-to-embrace-lifestyle-medicine).
More on fiber:
• Fiber vs. Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fiber-vs-breast-cancer/)
• How Fiber Lowers Cholesterol (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-fiber-lowers-cholesterol/)
• Fawning Over Flora (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fawning-over-flora/)
• Relieving Yourself of Excess Estrogen (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/relieving-yourself-of-excess-estrogen/)
• Beans and the Second Meal Effect (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans-and-the-second-meal-effect/)
And for more of the scoop on poop:
• Stool Size Matters (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool-size-matters/)
• Bristol Stool Scale (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bristol-stool-scale/)
• Food Mass Transit (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-mass-transit/)
• Bowels of the Earth (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bowels-of-the-earth/)
• Prunes vs. Metamucil vs. Vegan Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prunes-vs-metamucil-vs-vegan-diet/)
So what’s the answer? How much fiber should we shoot for? Our evolutionary past may give us a hint: Paleolithic Lessons (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleolithic-lessons/).
Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-burkitts-f-word-diet and he’ll try to answer it!
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Awesome! keep them coming.
My favourite F word!
Thank you, I live for your video information. I have cured myself of high blood pressure.
I had the opportunity yesterday to share on how I got rid of 3 different prescription for blood pressure,1 for congestive heart failure,1 for cholesterol by changing my nutritional plan to a plant-based nutrition. This gentleman was telling me how he just had 3 stents put in his heart and the cholesterol medicine was for the stents and he's never had high cholesterol ? 'coo coo coo coo' He will go on the best he can as a customer of big pharma. Terrible situation!
It really is sad how simple this is, and how many people would be cured of what they think to be "chronic" diseases.
It's truly amazing what switching to high fiber diet can do; I'd suffered with chronic constipation & hemorrhoids (I know, yuck) for YEARS and almost immediately after going strict vegan, including flaxseed meal, that was all gone, and has never once returned, like some sort of miracle. I still find it hard to believe it was that simple. But it was. It seems the cheese & flour combo, so popular among SAD eaters, makes for the most cement-like bowel blockages possible. I thank goodness for "preachy" online vegans everyday, for it's they who got me to face the truth about my "love for animals," and to go vegan and become a much more honest woman. And I hate to imagine where I'd be if I'd sought medical "help" for my problems… certainly I'd be much poorer, or likely dead by now if not just a chronic medical case.
Love how eating fiber negates any need to restrict calories. I'm down 8 pounds-eating lots!
Love your videos, especially this one
Yeah Dr. Greger! Keep speaking the truth. 🙂
awesome vid!
Yes, you nailed it with that last sentence.
In "The China Study" Dr. Campbell talks about "diseases of affluence." It's healthier and less expensive to eat a WFPB (whole-foods plant-based) Diet!
What are some good foods/snacks for fiber?
God bless you, salam from Morocco.
Its a conspiracy, they want people to be ignorant.
My friends at work complain about how they never poop and are always tired… At the same time they talk shit about my high carb high raw vegan diet while I'm happily going 2-3 times a day and never needing a drop of caffeine anymore. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt friends.
It's not just about fibre, Dr Burkitt said he was "..far too blinkered.." and we should also eat far more starch, far less fat, far less sugar and far less salt. I would assume he meant refined sugar.
Dr Burkitt Modern Day Hero. He speaks in the simplest of terms and with such clarity!!!
Dr Greger and DR McDougall Thanks to both of you beacons for keeping Dr. Beckitts legacy alive. His interview with Dr McD is legendary. Chronic disease is "code" for … "We're eating the wrong kinds of foods" Love the stories of people healing long term bowel problems by just making simple changes.
My favorite person recently went into med school.
Get fiberfucked!
I would like to help translate this video into Spanish, but it seems not to be enabled 🙁 Thank you anyway 😉