Clinton Discusses Health Benefits of Plant-Based Diets on CNN

Nathan Runkle September 23, 2010

Former President Bill Clinton continues to champion the health benefits of his mostly plant-based diet. In recent interviews with the Huffington Post and Yahoo! News, Mr. Clinton confirmed he is following a nearly vegan diet and today he explained to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, not to mention CNN’s hundreds of thousands of viewers, that 25 years of evidence shows that a healthy plant-based diet can help reverse heart disease.
 

Clinton cites the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Dean Ornish, founder of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute and Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of the The China Study, the most comprehensive human health study ever done. Considering the power and influence that President Clinton has and the wide audience he can reach with his message, this is must see T.V. 

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