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From: Mike Foster (69.kansas-city-13-14rs.mo.dial-access.att.net)
In Reply to: Re: Another misleading article in the popular press? posted by Dr. Neal Pinckney on September 9, 2002 at 1:05 pm:
Thank you for your response, although I must admit that I was hoping you'd have more specific information about research conducted by the Framingham Heart Study relative to the Wall Street Journal article I quoted. In the few years I've read this website, you've at times indicated that the Framingham Heart Study is one the world's most important and influential heart study programs, and I have a great deal of respect for it. I'm not a scientist, but I have faith in science, and as I understand it, science is a process of continually building on previous knowledge. Science is also a process during which existing beliefs and paradigms are often replaced by others. Thus, if the Wall Street Journal's op-ed article is accurate in its description of the Framingham findings, then this has potentially profound lifestyle implications for people like me who: 1) have reversed heart disease via the Ornish diet, but 2) continue to eat a low-fat, low-cholesterol, vegetarian diet past the age of 47. For me to disregard valid scientific studies that don't conform to my preconceived beliefs makes me (and I'm not judging anyone but myself here) little more than a cultist. Said another way, I eat a low-fat, low-cholesterol, vegetarian diet because it's backed by science as a way not only to prevent heart disease, but also as a means to reverse it. I don't do it because of moral, ethical, or religious beliefs. (Although again, I'm not judging anyone who chooses to eat or live this way for reasons other than scientific.) In the past, I've had luck contacting Dr. William Costelli of the NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, and I'll try to do so again. If I learn anything about the Wall Street Journal article's accuracy from Dr. Costelli, I'll post it here.
Subject: Re: Another misleading article in the popular press?
Date: September 9, 2002 at 4:47 pm PST
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