Joel Fuhrman, M.D.: Author of Eat to Live, Eat for Health

"We live in an era where the majority of Americans think that diseases strike us because of misfortune, genetics, or unknown factors beyond our control. When serious disease strikes, we run to doctors and expect them to fix us with a pill. Most people have no idea that most diseases -- including cancers, heart disease, strokes, and diabetes -- are the result of nutritional folly and are avoidable with a healthy diet." www.drfuhrman.com

T Colin Campbell, PhD: Author of The China Study
"People who eat the most animal-based foods get the most chronic disease. People who eat the most plant-based foods are the healthiest and tend to avoid chronic disease."
"All of these findings support the idea that both across and within populations, high-fiber, whole, plant-based foods protect against diabetes, and high-fat, high-protein, animal-based foods promote diabetes." www.tcolincampbell.org

Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D.: Director of Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

“There is absolutely no reason that anyone should ever die of heart disease; it is reversible at almost any age with the proper nutrition. Consumers just haven't been provided the right information.”  www.heartattackproof.com

Neal Barnard, M.D.: Author of Breaking the Food Seduction

“The prevalence of diabetes is going up rapidly. Many people believe that if their grandparents had diabetes then they will get it. Maybe, but our genes are not changing. What’s shifting is our environment, especially on our plate. If you look around the world, diabetes is pretty rare among those people who have not westernized their diets.”   www.nealbarnard.org

John McDougall, M.D.: Author of The McDougall Program

“The prevailing misconceptions about health and nutrition do not only cause illness; they promote it."

“I believe in a nourishing , low-fat, starch-based diet that not only promotes a broad range of dramatic and lasting health benefits such as weight (fat) loss, but most importantly can also reverse serious illness, such as heart disease, without drugs”.  www.drmcdougall.com

John Robbins: Author of The Food Revolution

"A cultural shift towards a plant-based whole foods diet would have enormous benefits. For the vast majority of people, it would mean far healthier lives. It would not only mean less heart disease, fewer cancers, and far less obesity; it would also mean far more vibrant, thriving, energetic, creative people. It would mean there was less fear of growing old and fewer families broken apart by the premature death of loved ones. For immense numbers of people, it would mean less suffering and more joy."  www.foodrevolution.org

Michael Klaper, M.D.: Director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research

“Our diet has fundamentally changed in the last century, from a 'plant' to an 'animal' based one. In this time, we have seen the explosion of heart disease, blood pressure, cancers, and obesity, as well as many other medical problems as well”.  www.vegsource.com/klaper

Scott Stoll, M.D.: Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Coordinated Health in Lehigh County, PA

“In the game of life diet is King.  The food you eat is never neutral, it either promotes healthy cells and repairs damage or it causes cell injury, damage and disease.  Over the past 100 years the average Western diet has gradually slid down the slippery slope of taste and pleasure and today is vastly different than that of our grandparents.  For example, in 1900 the average person ate 5 lbs of sugar in a year, did not drink soda, ate 131 pounds of homegrown vegetables and consumed very little oil.  Compare this to the year 2000 when the average person consumes 200lbs of sugar, 53 gallons of soda, 11 pounds of homegrown vegetables and 30 lbs of refined oils.  The differences are staggering and highlight the dangerous state of the Western diet”. www.drscottstoll.com