I agree with Rethinking 2000 about a genuinely ethical rational National Health Plan. In defense of Whole Foods, I find it very good that they are working with Rip Esselstyn and Joel Fuhrman to promote healthy life styles. Canola oil? I would respectfully suggest that swaninlake consider avoid adding ANY oil in recipies. For starters search "Brachial Artery Tourniquet Test" (500 hits) and "Caldwell Esselstyn" (28,600 hits including 150 videos) for reasons why. This is a hot topic.

There is hope for American media if CNN can run a presentation such as this. A real challenge in a corporate controlled mass media! Let's hope a large percentage of the USA public sees this. Good ideas need repeating. A BIG plus of the show was the manner of Dr. Gupta. He is unlikely to turn off anyone by being strident. The evidence for a plant-based dietary is compelling. But facts alone - even offered in perfect logic - are often ignored if the presenter is not perceived as an unbiased likable "nice guy" such as Dr. Gupta.

He leaned over backwards to be fair to the advocates of heart surgery and allowed meat and dairy lobby folks to repeat their simple recycled misleading statements. Contrast messages of heart surgery proponents with that of Dr. Esselstyn. For anyone "reading between the lines" this show was a very wonderful summary. Let's spread the word!

A higher-resolution version of the video can be found at http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/gupta/site/2011/08/29/sgmd.last.heart.attack.cnn?iref=allsearch

I have a question about the CNN interview. Perhaps I ought to address it to Dr Gupta too.

In the show, the point (as I recall it) was made that essentially no fat nor oil are to be ingested. However, in a later show, Dr Gupta said (paraphrasing him):
"We are what we eat and, in the case of our brain (that is mostly fat) this is especially true."

Can anyone comment on this. Did he mean to be telling us that we do need to eat fat? Perhaps I was only listening to what I wanted to hear!

What do we do about getting our omega3 oil?

...Brianmoh