No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet PDF
Preview No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet
ALSO BY HOWARD F. LYMAN MadCowboy:PlainTruthfromtheCattleRancher Who Won'tEatMeat (with Glen Merzer) A SCRIBNER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2005 by Voice for a Viable Future This book contains the opinions and ideas of its author It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication It is sold with the understanding that the author and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any other kind of personal professional services in the book The reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it The author and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, direcdy or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form First Scribner trade paperback edition 2005 SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc , used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work For information regarding special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-800-456-6798 or business@simonandschustercom Text set in Berthold Baskerville Manufactured in the United States of America 1 3 5 79 10 8 6 42 Library of Congress Control Number: 2005051599 ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8698-5 ISBN-10: 0-7432-8698-7 Paradise Casserole, copyright © 2003 by Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza Used by permission of Clarkson Potter Publishers, a division of Random House ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I want to acknowledge a number of folks who have changed my life. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study, who like me came from a farming background, has demonstrated conclusively that the animal-based diet is respon- sible for many of our ailments. Dr. Michael Klaper and Dr. John McDougall laid the scientific foundation for the diet revolution that is well underway. John Robbins opened the door to com- passion as well as common sense when it was practically con- sidered heresy to question animal products in our diet. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn was the first to show how a sound, plant- based diet could reverse heart disease. To these leaders I owe my good health today. Without their friendship and counsel, I would be sick at best and more likely dead. Thanks as well to our fine editors at Scribner, Beth Wareham and Jill Vogel. And to Dale Dudeck and Theresa Robbins, with- out whom this volume would probably have some other title that wouldn't be as sweetly poetic as No MoreBull! Finally, let me express my gratitude to the Ghost (Glen Merzer), his wife Joanna, and Mark Sutton. I could have never produced this book without their help and the help of forty of the best cooks in the world and my partner of thirty-seven years, my love, Willowjeane. CONTENTS FOREWORD 1 INTRODUCTION: MY JOURNEY 5 CHAPTER 1: IS MAD COW HERE TO STAY? 9 CHAPTER 2: REVENGE OF THE ANIMALS 28 CHAPTER 3: DEMYSTIFYING THE DEBATE 34 CHAPTER 4: ALZHEIFER'S DISEASE? 55 CHAPTER 5: MESSAGE FOR MY MEAT-EATING FRIENDS 60 CHAPTER 6: MESSAGE FOR MY FELLOW VEGETARIANS AND VEGANS 79 CHAPTER 7: TWO DUMB MYTHS, SEVEN SIMPLE RULES 87 CHAPTER 8: A TWO-WEEK MEAL PLAN 95 CHAPTER 9: RECIPES 99 CONTRIBUTORS 233 ENDNOTES 244 RESOURCES 250 INDEX 259 IX FOREWORD The MadCowboy is once again riding to the rescue and this time it is NoMoreBull!As only Howard Lyman can portray it, we are updated on the egregious, self-serving, and dangerous practices of the meat, dairy, and poultry industries. We are taken behind the scenes to the corridors of power and deals struck that amputate the clout of any meat inspection, neutralize testing procedures for mad cow disease, and permit the unsafe feeding of dead animals and feces to livestock. With unstinting courage and candor, Howard Lyman shares his decades of knowledge of the untidy underbelly of the ani- mal products industry and the epidemic of acute and chronic illness they guarantee for the unwary that eat them. While enthusiastically embracing the No More Bull! mes- sage of Howard Lyman, I would like to expand the vision we share. As a physician I am embarrassed by the lack of initiative and obstructionist policies of my own medical profession toward healthier lifestyles. This is not surprising. Physicians lack training and knowledge of nutrition and are self-serving when they proclaim "patients won't follow plant-based nutrition." Having counseled patients with severe coronary artery heart disease for over twenty years, I find the opposite to be true. Patients sent home to die by expert cardiologists after failing bypass or stents rejoice as they lose weight, eliminate angina chest pains, lessen their medication, lower their blood sugars, decrease or come off their insulin, revert their positive stress test back to normal, selectively diminish the plaque plugging their 1 No MORE BULL! arteries, and resume a fully active life empowered by the knowledge that they, not their physicians, have become the locus of control for the disease that was destroying them. Your arteries at ninety should work as efficiently as they did at nine. A plant-based diet will do the job, as my research has shown. But medicine is an industry out of control, predicted by 2014 to consume 19 percent of GDP. Think of the plight of Gen- eral Motors burdened with $2 billion in health benefit obliga- tion. It is unsustainable. This is true for all manufacturers who want to help their employers. Unions can't gain any increase in wages if all the money goes to health benefits. What are the options? Either more and more manufacturing is lost to over- seas or we end up with many more uninsured. The answer is to eliminate the chronic illness. Most of these dollars are spent on treating strokes, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and the common Western cancers of breast, prostate, and colon. Obviously asking union and management to switch to a plant-based diet is not going to happen immediately, so we start small. (This approach incidentally is the same that might salvage Medicare, which it is estimated will consume over 40 percent of the national budget by mid-century.) We approach union and management with a proposition that requests heart patients targeted for the mechanical inter- vention of bypass or stenting must first consider a twelve- week arrest and reversal lifestyle program. This must be monitored by those qualified in this technique. Patients will want to avoid the potential mortality and mor- bidity of the intervention. In my experience success with the motivated is well over 90 percent. Even with 50 percent adher- ence and avoiding intervention, the savings in avoiding pro- cedures is colossal. The same approach can work for hypertension, diabetes, and many other chronic illnesses. This will decrease the "prescription promiscuity" (Dayo and Patrick) that characterizes so many physicians' drug approach to disease. As we review the last century of medicine, despite striking the technological and drug breakthroughs, the diseases remain 2
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