Acknowledgements and Notes

Acknowledgements:

This blog is based mainly on the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Colin Campbell, and others promoting nutrition from plant based, whole, unprocessed food, oil free, without added sugar, and with minimal salt.

For more, please see the books at the foot of this blog and the "Essy's Favorites and Videos" page as well as in other posts below. (Note: this is a PAGE and NOT a POST!)

Special thanks to Carol D'Anca who shares her deep nutritional knowledge and extraordinary culinary expertise to inspire me and so many others to see our daily meals as continuing sources of good health and joy.

And many thanks as well to Ariane Glazer whose knowledge of raw vegan foods is encyclopedic and exceeded only by her generosity of sharing information and good food! While some of her recipes use oil, they are valuable and easy to modify when needed.

This Blog is NOT intended to replace medical advice!
This blog is intended to give general information and food preparation ideas. For medical advice please consult your qualified health care practitioner.

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Note on referenced books. You can find books by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Colin Campbell and Carol D'Anca at Amazon.com.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Engine 2 Diet and other books by Rip Esselstyn

I've been reading The Engine 2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's firefighter son.   This book is based on whole foods plant based nutrition and should be especially attractive to men who may see WFPBN as just a lot of salads.

Some of the recipes include processed ingredients that I would question (such as "vegetarian meat crumbles") but most of the recipes are fine.  The text includes information about the nutritional value of WFPBN (Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition) and a brief exercise program.

The experience of a group of firefighters on this plan should interest men especially!   You can find a lot of the information in the book plus plenty of recipes and great video footage at http://www.engine2diet.com/

And if you would like a copy of the original Engine 2 Diet or  Plant Strong (a great source of information about whole food, plant based nutrition) or the Seven Day Challenge as a great way to get started,  please see the Bookstore on the food of this blog.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Forks Over Knives -- A New WFPBN Movie

I'm excited because next week we'll have a free pre-screening here in Chicago of a Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition MOVIE!   Forks Over Knives opens in regular theatres next March.   To learn more about this film featuring Dr. C. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and his son firefighter son Rip Esselstyn (author of the Engine 2 Diet) go to http://www.forksoverknives.com/.   Perhaps there will be screenings of this movie in your area!    Whole Foods is sponsoring this screening here, and afterwards there will be a Q & A with Rip Esselstyn and Dr. Terry Mason, Medical Director of Cook County Hospital.  This should certainly get many folks here thinking about health in a new way! 

UPDATE:  August, 2016   You can now order Forks Over Knives, a full length feature (1 hour, 36 minutes)  as a DVD from Amazon, or view it on You Tube or Amazon for a small fee, or watch it on Netflix.    While this film is now a few years old it is still inspirational and will help viewers understand the importance of whole food, plant based nutrition.