“Although coronary artery disease is the leading killer of men and women in the USA, it is rarely encountered in cultures that base their nutrition primarily on grains, legumes, lentils, vegetables, and fruit.3’4 In the Framingham study, people with cholesterol levels between 150 and 200 mg/dl accounted for 35% of those with coronary heart disease, but among those with levels <150 mg/dl, the disease was rarely encountered.”

“Namely, if you switch from a high-fat diet to a low-fat diet, your initial response may at first be “Yuk!” However, if you exercise a little patience for, perhaps, three to four months, your taste preferences will change. ”

Researchers compare the effects of intensive lifestyle changes with usual-care on coronary heart disease. Subjects who maintained lifestyle changes for 5 years, including adoption of a low-fat vegetarian diet, experienced a improvement of vascular stenosis and fewer cardiac events.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998

“Even if all Americans kept their total cholesterol below 200 mg/dL, as recommended by the American Heart Association, millions would develop coronary artery disease.”

More troublesome, however, is the way in which most of this exceptionally compelling evidence has been hidden from public view and, further, the way in which research findings favoring dairy consumption is so often funded by the dairy industry. It has become more difficult these days to know which scientists are conflicted and which are not. When legal proceedings are required to reveal such conflicts, something is tragically wrong with our scientific research enterprise.

The best and least complicated choice for a healthier, longer, happier life is a weight-control program based on a low-fat, vegetarian diet high in complex carbohydrates, complemented by regular exercise.