I am very pleased to hear that Dr. Esselstyn is soon to report results from 250 heart patients, and look forward to seeing it published in a medical journal whenever it is accepted. I am wondering if all of the 250 patients are on his recommended diet, or if a percentage of these patients are in a control group consuming a different diet.
Does anyone have any additional information about this study?

Dr. Fuhrman is also planning on starting a heart disease reversal study next year through the Nutritional Research Project on either 50 or 100 patients consuming a high nutrient diet which includes modest amounts of nuts and seeds. This will be especially interesting to see the amount heart disease reversal when healthy fats from whole plant foods are added into the diets of people with heart disease.

Also does anyone have the reference for the study in regards to the autopsies of Papua New Guineans over the age of 60?

STAGES IN A SEARCH FOR TRUTH

Questions presented by TW are EXCELLENT. Two other areas of inquiry merit more attention. Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

DASTARDLY DAIRY PROBLEM.
Why do some dietary "gurus" give dairy a pass while ignoring the topic? How much - if any - animal protein is optimal or "safe" for humans? At times the issue is only a few keystrokes away as conflicts of interest abound. Anyone paid by McDonald's as a "consultant" may have trouble telling the truth about their offerings. E.g. Very high fat so-called "healthy" salads for starters. To protect the guilty, I'll not mention names. After all, Dean Ornish has done much good.

DOES "BART" TEST DESERVE UNIVERSAL ADOPTION?
Another frequently ignored VERY IMPORTANT topic
which must be no stranger to Veg Source readers
remains "brachial artery tourniquet test" ALAS.
At first blush Google shows 9,400 general hits
and over 20,000 hits from other search choices.
I see NO (ZILCH) challenge to Dr. Esselstyn on this discussion(s) on this fascinating topic

REPEATING FACTS AGAIN AND AGAIN MAY HELP.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi (?)

"Alle Wahrheit durchläuft drei Stufen. Zuerst wird sie lächerlich gemacht oder verzerrt. Dann wird sie bekämpft. Und schließlich wird sie als selbstverständlich angenommen." Schopenhauer (?)

" All truth goes through three steps. First it is made ridiculous or is distorted. Then it is fought. And, in the end, it is accepted as natural. " Schopenhauer (?)

(?) Sources and attributions uncertain.

CHEERS.

There is also the real possibility, that as the decades pass, substances, "man-made" nutrients and supplements, or foods, newly discovered in the earth and found to be edible, will have the unique ability of allowing us to continue to consume moderate amounts of those foods that have, until that time, been found to endanger health and shorten our lives. The diet promoted by Dr. Esselystyn, won't be consumed by a large proportion of the human species, for at least another 100 years, because the junk food promoters, will not take these findings without a fight. even if it's a fight that, for a majority of humans, they'll eventually lose. After all, there'll always be many other non-junk-food areas, where children, the naive and uneducated, can be seduced into spending what money they have destroying themselves.