It took more than 7,000 studies and the deaths of countless smokers before the Surgeon General’s report on tobacco was released in the 1960s. How many people are suffering needlessly from preventable dietary diseases today?
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Not that there aren’t randomized controlled studies showing the extraordinary power of plant-based diets to prevent, treat, and even reverse disease, not the least of which is Dr. Ornish’s landmark Lifestyle Heart Trial, which is what did it for me 25 years ago. That’s the one I started my annual talk last year with: From Table to Able: Combating Disabling Diseases with Food (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/from-table-to-able/).<
If you liked this video, you’ll really like this one: Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evidence-based-medicine-or-evidence-biased/)
Here’s the video in which I review the evidence surrounding treating multiple sclerosis with nutrition: Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-multiple-sclerosis-with-the-swank-ms-diet/).
There are more parallels one can draw between the Big Tobacco and Big Food. See Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook/) and at least the final 20 minutes of Food as Medicine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-as-medicine).
You also might enjoy:
• Collaboration with the New Vectors of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/collaboration-with-the-new-vectors-of-disease/)
• Food Industry Funded Research Bias (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-industry-funded-research-bias/)
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sprinkling-doubt: -taking-sodium-skeptics-with-a-pinch-of-salt)
Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evidence-based-nutrition and he’ll try to answer it!
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What happens in health authority agencies when 200,000 people die from eating blue berries? A mass re-call and ban on blue berries. What happens when 200,000 people diagnosed with a second opinion confirmed terminal illness or irreversible chronic condition completely recover? NOTHING! What gets journalized in to health reality gets filtered and screened to match the ideology of the day.
i FREAKING LOVE THIS DUDE AND HIS NUTRITION FACTS HELL YEAH SCREW YOU WESTERN MEDICINE
I need to show this to some people I know…
We know that people will probably die if they jump out of an airplane without a parachute. No randomized control trial needed. Then we also do not need a randomized controlled trial to show that most people won't stick with a whole foods plant based diet. How many times does it need to be shown that when you create a diet where a person must deprive themselves of certain foods then most people won't stick with it?
"Just eat a, b, and c. Don't eat x, y, and z."
Does anybody else understand the irony of this video?
Smoke screen! LOL!
Too funny!!
haha brilliant
I could (to my surprise) not find any information on your site about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and hyper mobility. I have a good friend that suffers from this and would love to get some information how to treat it.
The parachute analogy is PERFECT. What a great way to explain the problems with seeing rct as the only real evidence.
Ha!
I am going to call you out for "smoking".
Cannabis isn''t anywhere near the same as modern day western cigarettes?
Great analogy.
This was funny man… Nice tone
Physicist don't need randomized controlled trials for the application of Newtonian mechanics (the parachute example), because they have a first principles model of mechanics. Doctors have no such first principles model of human physiology and so do need to do their stats right.
Parachutes may help in prevention of deceleration sickness.
Liked the way you finished with the Smith and Peller study, best research since the dihydrogen monoxide scare. ;P Excellent points Dr Greger, maybe we need to look outside the system we're in to see more clearly.
why is this world so fucked up, these people should be in jail
Contestatario, tanto como Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased?
Sure RCTs shouldn't be the ONLY acceptable method for showing a diet works but what are some other methods to PROVE that they do?
Maybe people who would always survive jumping of airplanes tend to find parachutes aesthetically attractive.