Esselstyn Caldwell Quotes & Sayings

Here are the facts. Coronary artery disease is the leading killer of men and women in Western civilization. In the United States alone, more than half a million people die of it every single year. Three times that number suffer known heart attacks. And approximately three million more have "silent" heart attacks, experiencing minimal symptoms and having no idea, until well after the damage is done, that they are in mortal danger. In the course of a lifetime, one out of every two American men and one out of every three American women will have some form of the disease. — Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.

The person who sows seeds of kindness will have a perpetual harvest. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. — Jean-Paul Sartre

physicians, Drs. Bill Castelli, Bill Roberts and Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., that in their long careers they had never seen a heart disease fatality among their patients who had blood cholesterol levels below 150 mg/dL. Dr. Castelli was the long-time director of the famous Framingham Heart Study of NIH; Dr. Esselstyn was a renowned surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who did a remarkable study reversing heart disease (chapter five); Dr. Roberts has long been editor of the prestigious medical journal Cardiology. BLOOD CHOLESTEROL AND DIET — T. Colin Campbell

I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease. — Caldwell Esselstyn

It's like a buffet, basically. Like this really expensive buffet, except also you have to eat all of what's on your plate or they expel you. So conceptually that's kind of fucked up. If that happened at real buffets, that would be incredible. If you were like, 'Hmm, this moo shu pork has kind of a chalky dirt taste,' and then some enormous Chinese guy is like, 'EAT IT OR WE WILL GIVE YOU AN F, AND ALSO WE WILL KICK YOU OUT OF THE RESTAURANT,' that just doesn't seem like a good business model. — Jesse Andrews

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease. — Caldwell Esselstyn

Heart disease is a food-borne illness. — Caldwell Esselstyn

Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. — Caldwell Esselstyn

A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune."

Arabic proverb — Judy Hall

Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat. — Caldwell Esselstyn

The new definition of freedom today is self-determination. — John Hope Bryant

Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger. — Caldwell Esselstyn

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep. — Louisa May Alcott

Will still support my weight, but it drags beneath me uselessly; and when I prick it with my stylus, there is the merest ghost of a pain. I still have not informed — John Edward Williams

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124). — Edith Schaeffer

Cooper?"
"Yeah?"
"Why didn't you tell me it would be like that?"
"What was it like?" I ask.
"Amazing. — Cheryl McIntyre

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. — Caldwell Esselstyn