70: Dr. McDougall on Better Health with Vegetarian Cuisine

03/05/2016

Dr. McDougall is our kind of doctor – passionate about health and promoting real solutions to illness, he thrives on helping people regain their wellbeing: “The sicker you are, the happier I am,” is one of his mottos. (Because he gets to help make you better!)

As a sugar plantation doctor, Dr. McDougall treated four generations of immigrant workers.

He soon noted that those who had been brought up in their native lands, on high starch diets with little or no dairy and meat were healthier and leaner than then next generations who ate a standard American diet and suffered from diabetes, heart disease, cancer and obesity. Further research on the subject confirmed his hunch – there are numerous studies, dating back to the 1920’s proving that a vegan diet high in starchy sugars (from beans, corns, lentils, sweet potatoes etc.) is the healthiest diet, and one that can prevent chronic diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis.

Since then, Dr. McDougall has been active in promoting a healthier way of living. His website is packed with free resources and recipes to help people get informed and start their healing journey. He also offers live-in programs and healthy travel adventures. Check out his free Color Picture Book, and in just 8 minutes learn his life’s work and how you can make healthier choices. The key component to health? Starches. “If you don’t open your mind that you’re a starcharian, or starchavore, you’re not going to make it. It’s the absolute key ingredient,” he says.

Dr. McDougall also fights to spread awareness about a healthy diet and change legislation to ensure doctors are qualified in nutrition as well as medicine. And he’s not afraid of challenging the food industry either. “Protein deficiency is a lie; calcium deficiency does not exist.” For Dr. McDougall, an entire industry has been created on the myth of protein deficiency. This myth-busting episode will change the way you think about protein and healthy eating forever.

 

Dr John McDougall’s Bio

A physician and nutrition expert who teaches better health through vegetarian cuisine, John A. McDougall, MD has been studying, writing, and speaking out about the effects of nutrition on disease for over 30 years.  Dr. John and Mary McDougall believe that people should look and feel great for a lifetime. Unfortunately, many people unknowingly compromise their health through poor dietary habits.  

Dr. McDougall is the founder and director of the nationally renowned McDougall Program: a ten-day residential program that he and Mary McDougall host at a luxury resort in Santa Rosa, CA where medical miracles occur through diet and lifestyle changes. In addition to her formal training as a nurse, Mary McDougall provides many of the delicious recipes that make the McDougall Program not only possible, but also a pleasure. He and Mary are also the authors of several nationally best-selling books as well as the co-founders of Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods, which produces high quality vegetarian cuisine to make it easier for people to eat well on the go.

The McDougall Program is all about giving you control over your health. Most participants are able to stop all unnecessary medications, avoid surgery, improve their appearance and regain lost fitness. Sick people see doctors, healthy people don’t. Our goal is to make you healthy.Dr. McDougall has cared for thousands of patients for almost 3 decades. His program not only promotes a broad range of dramatic and lasting health benefits but, most importantly, can also reverse serious illnesses including high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and others, all without the use of drugs.   

A graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, Dr. McDougall performed his internship at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and his medical residency at the University of Hawaii. He is certified as an internist by the Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners.  

 

Dr John McDougall’s Links

Website:  www.drmcdougall.com

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The Egg Industry – Exposing a Source of Food Poisoning

Diet and Multiple Sclerosis

Dr McDougall’s Color Picturebook: Food Poisoning

Dr. McDougall’s Webinars

 

Our Favorite Moments:

@6:35 Dr. McDougall is our dream doctor

@16:18 What makes Dr. McDougall say “it’s just a fact, it’s not a conspiracy”?

@18:28 “This is blowing my mind right now”

@35:50 Suing the egg industry!

@57:00 We’re all fired up!

 

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Links from show:

Screen Shot 2016-03-05 at 1.21.09 PM“The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods Your Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good” By Dr. McDougall

 

 

 

 

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Being hailed as “Sex and the City for Food,” The Food Heals Podcast brings together experts in the field of nutrition, health and healing to teach you the best-kept natural secrets to being a hotter, healthier, happier YOU!

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