Dr. Klaper - Beyond Cholesterol - Freeing Yourself from the Tyranny of Your Cholesterol Numbers

I've seen some of these slides and graphics in talks by Dr. Esselstyn, also, especially the part about "foam" cells developing. It may have been in Dr. Essy's presentation at last year's Plantstock. 

Plant Strong Podcast - Rip Esselstyn

A few months ago, Rip Esselstyn started his own podcast series called The Plant Strong Podcast. I listened to a few episodes, then forgot about it, because, well, I don't usually do podcasts and rarely open the podcast app on my iPad Mini, and unless someone gives me a poke and says "Listen to this!" I just don't do it. It's also available on-line, so no app necessary, only a browser that can play audio files, but I have the same problem. With my hearing disorder, listening to things is sometimes hard, so I always miss out on so much.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Rip (or someone in his organization) has put these podcasts up on YouTube! And they enabled the closed caption feature, too! OK, YouTube captions are voice capture, not a human looking at a transcript and typing the captions in like the best TV shows and movies do, but it's better than nothing.

So far I only got through the first 2 episodes - one with his dad and one with his mom as special guests - but I've enjoyed them. With this heat wave we're having, we're spending a lot of time indoors. While my husband watches things like The Cape Canaveral Monster and The Unknown Terror on the TV, I can pop my earbuds in and listen to a few more of these gems.

Here's the page with the Plant Strong Podcast Playlist, and here's the first episode, where Rip introduces Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn as well as Firefighter Joe Inga, whose story Rip will be following in these episodes.

Jeff Novick at the Hyatt Regency 2013 - Throw Back Thursday

My favorite Jeff Novick graphic from his FaceBook page

Click each chart for full size graphic from Jeff's Facebook page.

Lighten Up: Weighing In on the Weight Debate lecture

Calorie Density: How to Eat More, Weigh Less lecture

Should I Eat That talk

I was about to say that different versions of these talks are available for purchase, but VegSource and Dr. McDougall's store no longer have them for sale. You can find the Caloric Density talk from one of the McDougall seminars on YouTube:


but only a clip or 2 from the other talks.

You can find them all for sale on Amazon, but the individual people selling them now want around $45 each - more than double the original price of $20. Maybe for his birthday Jeff will release another one of these on YouTube like he did with the Caloric Density one back in October 2016.

Dr. McDougall on "Food Poisoning" at the 2017 Health Fest in Marshall, Texas

Ew!

"What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? HALF a worm!"

Well, what's worse than finding a dead caterpillar in your lunch bowl? That's right - HALF a dead caterpillar! And that's what I found in my bowl just a short time ago.

So much for finishing up those open bags of frozen veggies in the freezer. I have no idea if it came from the broccoli, cauliflower, or mixed veggies. It was just *there* in the bowl after I got about 1/4 of the way down.

I was so annoyed at the discovery, but my poor husband, who's already super nervous about tomorrow's cataract surgery on the other eye, was nearly gagging. "Hey, it wasn't in *YOUR* bowl, so why the noise??" He just walked out of the room. Poor guy always did have a delicate tummy. 

I picked through the rest of the bowl but didn't find the other half, and I don't want to think about where it might be. I tossed out the rest of the food, but it makes me never want to eat a frozen vegetable ever again!! 

Broccoli

Making the Change

Remember many years ago, when Dr. and Mary McDougall talked about their very first "book" that they made up in 1979 to give their early patients? It was hand typed and bound with those little loose-leaf binder clips.

Every now and then I roam the Internet used book sites hoping to see someone trying to sell theirs. I was even on Ebay this morning looking.

Then suddenly a message appeared in my email in-box at 9:01 - The McDougalls have scanned this little book into digital form and it's now available for free as a PDF download on their website!

Of course I immediately downloaded it!

Oh, it's so cute! OK, maybe not "cute", but I'm so happy to finally get my hands on this. I haven't read through the whole 252 pages yet, obviously, but I did flip through it. Definitely hand-typed, and there are even hand written page numbers and the occasional notes in the margins or between paragraphs.

Of course, the food plan is basically the exact same thing Dr. McDougall teaches today. Just like he did in the Health Supporting Cookbooks, The McDougall Plan, and other early books, the foods are broken down into categories I to IV based on what they're composed of and whether they're health-supporting or not, very similar to the current stoplight differentiation of the more recent  The Color Picture Book.

Glancing through the recipes, there are a lot of old tried-and-true ones that I still make to this day, like the enchilada sauce or the Easy Curried Pea Soup. There are many others I never saw before that look interesting, like a gravy called Whole Wheat Sauce or the variations of refried beans.

I'm going to have fun with this!

Thanks, Dr. and Mary McDougall!

Dr. McDougall Lecture - Dr. McDougall’s Color Picture Book on Food Poisoning (And How to Cure It with Beans, Corn, Potatoes, and Rice)

This was Dr. McDougall's talk at the 2014 VegSource Get Healthy Now conference. You can buy the DVD set or digital downloads of all the talks on VegSource. The set this one came from was the Black set.

The Simpsons - Protestant Heaven vs. Catholic Heaven

WHOSE Food Plan is Best?

Today's newspaper has an article about the death of Mary Max, artist Peter Max's wife. No need to go into any details of the sordid event, but I did find this bit in the article of great interest:

She had been involved in an ugly legal battle with other members of the family over the dementia-afflicted 81-year-old’s artwork.

Peter Max? Dementia? 

Hmm, does this artwork look familiar? Not just the artist (Obviously, it's Peter Max, for those of you who didn't live through the 1960's and saw it everywhere back then), but the subject matter itself?

Yes, Peter Max was a long-time follower of the Fuhrman Eat to Live program. He praises Dr. Fuhrman on the page for the poster on Dr. Fuhrman's web site, and in this article in Vegetarian Times, where he mentioned in 2017 that he's been following Fuhrman for 12 years at that time, and that he had vegan for many years before that, since his mid-20's (He's now 81).

Now, doesn't this put that whole nut debate that's been going on on YouTube in a whole new light? It's looking pretty obvious right about now that nuts do not prevent dementia, as a certain someone has been claiming all along, doesn't it?