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Ken's Type-1 Diabetes Journey: Part 4 - My Story
The year 1988 was a pivotal year for me. Prior to 1988 and even the early part of 1988, my health and physical ability was median normal with all my friends and family. In 1972, I was drafted into the US Army and underwent basic combat training for...
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Fad Diets
while others say to never eat that food. They all have an identifying trade name such as; Adkins, 80-10-10, South Beach, McDougall, Mediterranean, Engine 2, Paleo and so,...
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Ken's Engineered Type 1 Diabetes Whole Food Plant Based Low Fat Lifestyle
Previous experiences with my doctors were extremely difficult because they wanted to control my Type 1 diabetes by prescribing specific medication doses and defining what I should eat. But, none of that was working. I felt extremely diseased and...
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Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health
maintain a plant-based diet. Features include: Insights from the luminaries behind the film - Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. John McDougall, The Engine 2 Diet author Rip Esselstyn, and many others. Success stories from converts to plant-based eating - like...
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Plant-based diets are not nutritionally deficient.
Nutrient deficiency diseases are not associated with vegetarian diets. This research work evaluated the nutrient content of vegetarian diets. Researchers studied more than 5000 subjects on low-fat, whole food, plant-based nutrition therapy for 28...
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How Stomach Receptors Help us Lose Weight
The food industry has become very successful at developing irresistible, highly-palatable foods that seduce our taste buds. Because today's food has had its components taken apart, scientifically re-formulated, and put back together (with the addition...
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Childhood Diet Linked to Asthma
Over 8 percent of children are affected by asthma which involves inflammation and narrowing of the airways . I used to be one of them. As a child I suffered from recurrent asthma that occasionally had me going to the hospital. I was sure it was just...
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Arsenic in Rice - Should We be Concerned?
Hardly a week goes by without some type of warning or health scare regarding what "is or isn't" in our food. Reports regarding arsenic in rice the past few years have raised concerns in health-conscious individuals and have given low-carb followers yet...
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Treating Multiple Sclerosis With Diet
Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system where our body attacks our nerves. The most popular drugs used to treat multiple sclerosis cost over $ 55,000 a year , however it was found that these...
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Protect Your Heart With Starch-Based Diet
Restaurant owner, Judy Patti, prepared her meals the way most Americans do, using a vast selection of meat, dairy, eggs and oil. She admits her poor dietary choices were the root cause of her illness. Judy was 60 pounds overweight, had high blood...
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What's on the Menu?
After making the transition to a healthy plant-based diet, you may find it difficult to find a restaurant that serves plant-based meals. Upon arriving at the restaurant, the menu features many choices, yet in your mind, you're seeing...."heart attack,...
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Why is weight loss not happening with Vegan Diet?
and have great resistance to losing the pounds I have packed on in the last 5+ years. I have tried Forks Over Knives, McDougall's The Starch Diet....even attended his program and TrueNorth in Santa Rosa last year.....also attended a week long Reunion...
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RE: Vegan Diet & Neuromuscular conditions
of the necessary amino acids to build, maintain, and repair muscles," which of course, we know is bunk (as explained in McDougall's article to Circulation, June 25, 2002, Vol 105, Issue 25). Any insightful information on the impact of a WFPB on Muscular...
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RE: Why do plant-based doctors advise those trying to lose weight to avoid healthy fats such as nuts and avocado?
food plant based diet gave most of them an additional 20 plus healthy years of life. A recurring theme in many of Dr. McDougall's writings is that he does not condemn some salt and sugar if that is what it takes to get a person to give up eating meat,...
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RE: Bananas and type2 diabetes
Flora, No, I didn't use Dr. McDougall's elimination diet. My elimination diet started out random. I did not know about Dr. McDougall, or any plant-based doctor for another 22 years. I hadn't even heard the word "vegan" during that time. I just picked a...
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Whole Foods Market Endorses Plant-Based Diet
become a prominent educator and advocate for a whole-food, plant-based diet. John recently gave a presentation at Dr. John McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend in Santa Rosa, California. The short video clip above highlights his thoughts regarding the...
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Is GERD a Symptom of a Hiatal Hernia?
Half of the adults living in America who consume the rich Western diet have permanently stretched the diaphragm that separates the abdominal cavity from the thoracic cavity. Many patients are unaware that they have stretched their diaphragm; some...
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Say Goodbye to Acid Reflux!
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a painful, chronic health condition in which the lower esophageal sphincter (a muscular valve between the esophagus and stomach) relaxes, which causes the contents in the stomach to travel up the esophagus....
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T1 Diabetic
am a T1 Diabetic. I started following Dr. McDougall's program about 3 years ago. I've never been to his residential program (although I would like to). Lately, I've not been as strict with the diet. I know this will sound very counter-intuitive but, my...
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RE: T1 Diabetic
most likely sign up for the consultation. And thank you for the info regarding Ken Thomas. I first read about Ken on Dr. McDougall's site 3 years ago but, didn't know how to contact him. I actually found your website by doing a search for Ken Thomas....
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