Beefcake and Broccoli: Texas Firefighters Go Veg!

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If you’ve ever had to call the fire department, you know that one look at those smokin' hot gentlemen can make a gal’s heart rate go up.

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Esselyn notes, “The Standard American Diet does nothing to enhance your health ... Calorie for calorie, the best source of protein on the planet comes from green leafys: spinach is 51% protein, kale is 40% protein.”

Much in his book is based on decades of research done by his heart surgeon father, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure (Avery. January 2008.)



Dr. Esselstyn conducted a groundbreaking 20-year nutritional study on terminal heart disease patients—the longest study of its kind. Based on his findings, he proposes that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects. Dr. Esselstyn believes that that “conventional cardiology has failed patients by developing treatments that focus only on the symptoms of heart disease, not the cause.”

Esselstyn, the son, says, “I think in less than five years, there will be such a stigma attached to eating meat and dairy, that it will be similar to smoking cigarettes today."


Lance Armstrong. Photo courtesy Wiki.

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