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Gershon wrote:Dr. McDougall,
You aren't losing the battle. I lost 28 pounds on your diet and now I'm just above the middle of a normal weight for my height. I told a friend about your diet and she has lost 13 pounds. She still hasn't given up cheese, but she is thinking about it.
The people you are winning may never write an article for Time magazine. I'm too busy hiking the mountains in Colorado. We will spread the word with an active, healthy and happy lifestyle.
Aside from your efforts, the meat industry is slowly being priced out of existence. Feed is becoming too expensive if it's available. The dust storms are starting again in Boise, OK due to lack of water. If you don't win the fight, nature will win it for you.
John McDougall wrote:Time Magazine says “Eat Butter”
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John McDougall, MD
English translation[edit]
I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:
To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art; and that by my teaching, I will impart a knowledge of this art to my own sons, and to my teacher's sons, and to disciples bound by an indenture and oath according to the medical laws, and no others.
I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.
But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.
I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or men, be they free or slaves.
All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all humanity and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my life.
he original oath broken down[edit]
The original Hippocratic Oath can be broken up to cover twelve different areas to which a physician is swearing to; the areas are as follows:[5]
The first is a covenant with the deity Apollo, who is the god of healing. Most modern oaths have removed this portion; however, the original translation reads "I swear by Apollo the physician…".
The second is the Covenant with Teachers, and this is done with the pledge of collegiality and financial support.
Next is the Commitment to Students by the promise to teach those who swear the oath.
After the Commitment to Students comes the Covenant with Patients, and this is the physician's pledge to use their best ability and judgment.
The fifth area is Appropriate Means with the use of standard "dietary" care; this is using the established and accepted practices to treat their patients.
Appropriate Ends is next and says that a doctor is to do what is best for the patient, rather than what is best for the physician.
The seventh area is the Limits on Ends, which was originally in the oath but has been omitted by many medical schools. The Limit on Ends in the oath said that a doctor would not help a woman have an abortion and that the physician would not administer a lethal drug if asked. Both of these have caused many ethical dilemmas in modern times, with abortion being legal in many countries, prisons using lethal drugs to execute prisoners and physicians practicing euthanasia.
The next area is Limits on Means; this refers to the leaving of surgeries and specialty care to those who have been trained in that particular specialty.
Next is Justice; upon taking the oath, the physician is swearing that they will avoid any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption.
After Justice comes Chastity, which states that a physician will not have any sexual contact with their patients.
The eleventh area covered is Confidentiality; this simply says that a doctor will not repeat anything that is seen or heard.
The final area of the oath is Accountability, which is a prayer that the physician be favored by the gods if the oath is kept and punished if it is broken.
When the Oath was rewritten in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, the prayer was omitted, and that version has been widely accepted and is still in use today by many medical schools.[6]
Jumpstart wrote:I know it's popular for vegans and vegetarians to demonize all animal products. I assume this is done primarily by some for ethical reasons and by others because it make compliance easier. I have doubts that cholesterol or animal fats cause most of the health problems in the world. We now have articles written by Dr. Campbell telling us that saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease and that there isn't even one study that shows such a relationship (that one got stuck in my face by my DH who eats Pritikin) and even Keys categorically stated that cholesterol didn't cause heart disease unless you were a rabbit. It's more likely the shear volume of animal protein with growth hormones given animals along with the lack of vegetables causing most of the problems. The single biggest takeaway for me from Dr. McDougall's program is that the calorie density of animal products is causing the obesity problem along with its associated diseases in the world. Knock back the calorie density by totally eliminating animal products and you've solved 90% of your problem. As Dr. McDougall pointed out many times moderation is a slippery slope and simple abstinence is the ideal solution. For those who can handle the moderation thing a Pritikin/Okinawan/Tarahumara or even French/Med way of eating would work just fine.
Jumpstart wrote:I know it's popular for vegans and vegetarians to demonize all animal products.
Jumpstart wrote:I know it's popular for vegans and vegetarians to demonize all animal products. I assume this is done primarily by some for ethical reasons and by others because it make compliance easier. I have doubts that cholesterol or animal fats cause most of the health problems in the world. We now have articles written by Dr. Campbell telling us that saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease and that there isn't even one study that shows such a relationship (that one got stuck in my face by my DH who eats Pritikin) and even Keys categorically stated that cholesterol didn't cause heart disease unless you were a rabbit. It's more likely the shear volume of animal protein with growth hormones given animals along with the lack of vegetables causing most of the problems. The single biggest takeaway for me from Dr. McDougall's program is that the calorie density of animal products is causing the obesity problem along with its associated diseases in the world. Knock back the calorie density by totally eliminating animal products and you've solved 90% of your problem. As Dr. McDougall pointed out many times moderation is a slippery slope and simple abstinence is the ideal solution. For those who can handle the moderation thing a Pritikin/Okinawan/Tarahumara or even French/Med way of eating would work just fine.
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