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How Not to Die (Preface (Dr. Dean Ornish showed that diet and lifestyle…

- - - - Big Pharma has a profit motive in producing medications and nutrition is populated with snake-oil supplements and wonder gadgets
        
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        Due to democratization of information, doctors no longer have monopoly on health knowledge, we should empower others to investigate this
- - - - Our genes do not determine our death, the modern diet has shortened most lives (American diet can age 20 years)
        
        Prevention
        
        Primary (prevent first heart attack); Secondary (prevent 2nd heart attack/getting worse); Tertiary (managing long-term health problems); Quaternary (Reduce complications from drugs and surgery from last three levels)
        
        Primordial: preventing risk factors leading to chronic disease (e.g. preventing high cholesterol in the first place, which leads to heart attacks)
        
        The Simple 7 (not smoking, not overweight, being active, eating healthy, below-average cholesterol, normal blood pressure, normal blood sugar)
      - Though we are living longer, we are actually living fewer healthier years. We are living sicker and our children may live shorter lives in the future
    - - Caused by shift in dietary patterns (westernization), from malnourished to overconsumption; China transition from traditional, plant-based diet led to increase in diet-related chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, CVD, and cancer)
        
        In general, the dividing line between health-promoting and disease-promoting foods may be less animal-sourced foods and more whole plant foods versus most everything else
        
        Adhering to: not smoking, not being obese, being active, and eating healthier can account for 78% of chronic disease risk and reduce chances of dying by 82%
        
        Telomere are caps on the top of chromosomes that act as your life "fuse". By adhering to a plant-based, whole-foods diet, telomeres can even grow longer by boosting telomerase enzyme activity and reverse cellular aging
        
        People eating this diet enjoyed same amount of weight loss in three months while exercising half as much as those who didn't after a year
        
        The unifying diet that prevents all leading causes of death (heart, lung, brain, cancer, diabetes, blood pressure, liver, kidney, suicide, Parkinson's) is a whole-food, plant-based diet (an evidence-based diet)
        
        This is not only safer and cheaper than drug prescription, but ultimately more effective (may be even too effective, could eliminate need for drugs)
        
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