Clinton and vegetarianism (was Re: How much is enuf?)

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According to news reports, Clinton had gained weight, stopped running and

went off his healthy diet in recent years. During his presidential years he

was a Mc's junky.

Vegetarian in and of itself doesn't mean a thing. You can still be eating

plenty of foods that are unhealthy such as: baked goods with plenty of

unsavory ingredients, full fat dairy, oils in salad dressings, processed

foods with trans fats, loads of sugar, etc. I used to work with some 7th

day adventists who were vegetarians and were grossly overweight.

on 10/14/2004 11:59 AM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

>

> Hi JW:

>

> Worth bearing in mind that Bill Clinton was so enamored of the Ornish

> diet that Ornish 'dedicated' one of his books to him. Take a look

> inside the front cover for the dedication. Obviously I don't know to

> what extent Clinton kept to the diet. But we do know that Ornish's

> advice was not much help to Clinton's arteries.

>

> Also worth remembering that the Seventh Day Adventist strict

> vegetarian diet has been shown in many studies to improve lifespan

> (but NOT species maximum lifespan). Yet despite that obvious

> advantage, Seventh Day Adventists on a strict vegetarian diet still

> have an incidence of ischemic heart disease of 21%. That is only

> about 50% better than for those on the (dreadful) 'typical north

> american diet'. Vegetarianism certainly does not seem to be a

> panacea with regard to heart disease. Nor, clearly, is exercise,

> given many examples of athletes who have advanced heart disease -

> documented by, among others, Henry , who treated some of these

> supremely fit people. Hence his quote: " Fitness has absolutely

> nothing to do with health " .

>

> Rodney.

>