State of Health Statistics

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/health-expenditures.htmhttps://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/cancer-facts-figures-2017.htmlhttps://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/index.htmlhttps://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

• Per capita national health expenditures: $9,990 (2015)

• Total national health expenditures: $3.2 trillion (2015)

• In 2017, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed

• In 2017, 30.3 million people have diabetes (9.4% of the U.S. population)

• Every year about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack. Of these, 525,000 are a first heart attack and 210,000 happen in people who have already had a heart attack.

What are Animal-Based Foods?

Dairymilk, cheese, butter, yogurt

Eggschicken eggs, duck eggs

Fish & Seafoodtuna, salmon, shrimp, scallops, clams, lobster, crabs

Meatbeef, chicken, pork, turkey, bacon, etc.

What are Plant-Based Foods?

Legumesnavy beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas

Leaveslettuce, spinach, arugula

Bulbsonion, garlic, shallots

Rootsbeet, potato, carrot

Flowerscauliflower, broccoli, artichoke

Whole Grainswheat, brown rice, rye

Fruitstomato, orange, kiwi

Mushroomsportobello, button, shiitake

Stemscelery, rhubarb, asparagus

Nutspecan, cashew, walnut

What About Plant-Based Processed Foods?

• Overwhelmingly comprised of fat and refined carbohydrates (sugar, white flours)

• To enhance their addictive nature, long shelf-life, or visual appeal, these foods rely on artificial ingredients such as preservatives, colors, or flavors

• Very low in nutrients due to lacking their original fiber, vitamins and minerals

• A significant part of most Western diets, including diets ranging from vegans and vegetarians, to omnivores

Plant Fragmentssugar, oil, refined flours

Plant-Based Processed Foodspotato chips, Oreos, etc.

Animal-Based Diets

• Elevate blood cholesterol levels

• Promote formation of diseases such as diabetes and heart disease

• Enhance likelihood of osteoporosis

• Increase production of growth hormones

• Promotes tumor development

• Pro-inflammatory

• Usually high in saturated and animal fats

1.Ornish D, Scherwitz LW, Billings JH, Gould L, et al. Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of coronary heart disease. JAMA. 1998; 280: 2001-7.2.Barnard ND, Cohen J, Jenkins DJ, Turner-McGrievy G, Gloede L, Jaster B, Seidl K, Green AA, Talpers S. A low-fat, vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Diab Care. 2006; 29:1777-1783.3.Adlercreutz H. Western diet and Western diseases: some hormonal and biochemical mechanisms and associations. Scand. J. Clin. Lab. Invest. 1990; 50(Suppl.201): 3 23.4.Dunaif GE, Campbell TC. Dietary protein level and aflatoxin B1-induced preneoplastic hepatic lesions in the rat. J. Nutr. 1987; 117: 1298 1302.

Breast Cancer (cases/ 105 /yr)(Carroll KK. Experimental evidence of dietary factors and hormone-dependent cancers.

Cancer Res 1975;35:3374-83.)

Animal Fat Intake (g/day)

20 60 100

Canada

USA

Sweden

Venezuela

ChileBulgaria

Mexico

El Salvador

15

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5

140

ThailandCeylonJapan

Philippines

Taiwan

Columbia

PanamaGreece

SpainRomaniaYugoslavia

Hong Kong

Portugal

Italy

Puerto Rico

Poland

Hungary

Czechoslovakia Finland

FranceNorwayAustria

Germany Australia

Ireland

UK New ZealandDenmark

Netherlands

SwitzerlandBelgium

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Whole Food, Plant-Based Diets

1.Barnard ND, Katcher HI, Jenkins DJA, Cohen J, Turner-McGrievy G. Vegetarian and vegan diets in type 2 diabetes management. Nutr Rev.2009;67:255-263.2.pilot study. The Lancet Oncology. 2013; 14(11): 1112-1120.3.Esselstyn CB Jr., Gendy G, Doyle J, Golubic M, Roizen MF. A way to reverse CAD? J Fam Pract. 2014 July; 63(7): 356-364.4.Garnett T. Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)? Food Policy. 2011; 36(Suppl 1): S23-S32.

• Prevent, treat, or reverse some of our leading causes of death, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure

• Are anti-inflammatory

• Reduce body weight

• Are good for the environment

• Are low in saturated fat, free of cholesterol, and rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

• Does not require calorie counting or regularly fighting against hunger

Beyond Animal Protein

A plant-based diet with a variety of whole foods

will naturally contain enough protein.

Nutrient CompositionNutrient

Cholesterol (mg)

Fat (g)

Protein (g)

Dietary Fiber (g)

Vitamin C (mg)

Iron (mg)

Calcium (mg)

Beta-carotene (mcg)

Vitamin E (mg ATE)

Folate (mcg)

Magnesium (mg)

USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/

Plant-Based

0

4

33

31

293

20

545

29,919

11

1168

548

Animal-Based

197

36

34

0

4

2

4

17

0.5

19

51

Nutrition MYTHS

• Nutrition is a function of a handful of clearly identifiable nutrients

• Nutrients do very specific things and cause very specific diseases

• Nutrition represents very definitive events we can study and understand

• Nutrients manipulated independently can accomplish benefits

Nutrition FACTS

• The biologically wholistic process by which elements of foodand water are used by the body to optimize health

• The highly integrated reactions and events of countless foodchemicals working together, as in a symphony

A New Nutrition Paradigm

Future Paradigm

Defines nutrition as the independent, additive effects on health.

Is reflected in:

• Food labeling

• RDAs

• Nutrient Supplements

• Scientific research

Defines nutrition as the

nutrients on health.

Is demonstrated by:

• Whole food effects

Present Paradigm

A New Medical Paradigm

Future Paradigm

Nutrition (Wholistic)

• Prefers systematic treatments• Uses natural foods• Preventive health• Looks at underlying causes

Disease Management (Reductionist)

• Prefers isolated treatments• Uses unnatural chemicals• Reactive health• Looks at symptoms

Present Paradigm

Eat

Avoid

What About Caloric Density?

A Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet:What to Eat

"One of the most fortunate findings from the mountain of

nutritional research I ve encountered is that good food and good

health is simple. The biology of the relationship of food and

health is exceptionally complex, but the message is still simple.

The recommendations coming from the published literature are

so simple that I can state them in one sentence: eat a whole

foods, plant-based diet, while minimizing the consumption of

refined foods, added salt and added fats.

- T. Colin Campbell, PhD

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