![]() The publicist for an organization called the Physician's Committee on Responsible Medicine emailed me to ask if I'd like to talk with Barnard about the research, and I always do want to talk about food research, so I did. I heard about Barnard because today he and his colleagues published a meta-analysis in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine that confirmed a very promising health benefit of being a vegetarian: an enviably lower blood pressure than your omnivorous friends. ![]() ![]() Apparently I'm one of few people in health media not familiar with his work, and his very clear perspective. What is the dietary staple in Japan? They’re eating huge amounts of rice." "We looked at every published study, so it’s really undeniably true."īased on the fact that Barnard is the author of 15 books extolling the life-prolonging virtues of plant-based diets, I should have seen that coming. "You look at the people across the world who are the thinnest, the healthiest, and live the longest they are not following anything remotely like a low-carb diet," he said. Neal Barnard about limiting your carb intake. At some point we have to stand back and look at evidence." ![]() "It is popular, bad science, it’s a mistake, it’s a fad. A low carbohydrate diet is quackery," Dr. ![]()
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