Is a Plant-Based Diet Sustainable Long-Term? | Mastering Diabetes | Dr. Dean Ornish

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Is a plant-based diet sustainable long-term? The Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease incorporates comprehensive lifestyle changes including exercise, a low-fat, whole food, plant-based diet, smoking cessation, stress management training, and group support sessions. His team has refined the program over the years but continues to focus on these interventions.

Dr. Ornish swears by a vegetarian diet as it can be the single most effective nutrition to prevent chronic illnesses (e.g. cancer, diabetes, heart disease). But going back to the question – how about sustainability? For him, scaring patients is not a sustainable motivator to keep them on the healthiest diet. However, getting supported by both their health insurance and loved ones can definitely go a long way.

Check out the conversation for more of these insights on how vegans can be healthy in the long run.
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Dr. Dean Ornish is an American physician and researcher. He is the president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less and The Spectrum, he is a well-known advocate for using diet and lifestyle changes to treat and prevent heart disease. The Ornish Reversal Program is covered by Medicare.

Dr. Ornish has been a physician consultant to former President Bill Clinton since 1993, when Ornish was asked by Hillary Clinton to consult with the chefs at The White House, Camp David, and Air Force One. In 2010, after the former President’s cardiac bypass grafts became clogged, Clinton, encouraged by Ornish, followed a mostly plant-based diet.

In 2011, Barack Obama appointed Ornish to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.

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