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🗓️ 3 July 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Denise Minger is perhaps most noted for her comprehensive rebuttal of “The China Study” some eight years ago. She’s heavily vested in the vegan versus omnivore battle, having cycled through vegetarianism and raw veganism, finally coming full circle to being an omnivore.
Minger took to vegetarianism when she was just 7 years old. "I was eating steak one night at dinner and almost choked on it. I developed some kind of phobia surrounding things with meat textures and went vegetarian overnight," she explains.
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and as I was in the process of taking |
0:04.8 | control of my health, I was using a PEMF electrode that's pulsed electromagnetic field electrode and put like an indent indent on my forehead so don't worry |
0:13.7 | about that because we are delighted to have us to be interviewing Denise |
0:20.3 | Minger who is most noted for her take-down rebuttal of the China study about five years ago. |
0:28.2 | And perhaps we'll touch on that a bit today, but she is a really gifted communicator and is going to be sharing some really interesting items |
0:39.8 | with us today. |
0:40.8 | So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Denise. |
0:43.0 | Hey Joe, that should be a song. |
0:45.0 | Happy to be here, thank you for having me. |
0:48.0 | So is there anything else you'd like to add to your bio at the beginning |
0:51.0 | before we start? |
0:52.0 | Probably for anyone who doesn't know my background already, |
0:55.0 | like I have a pretty vested interest in the whole vegan versus omnivore battle, |
1:00.0 | if you want to put it that way. |
1:02.0 | I became a vegetarian myself when I was seven years old. |
1:05.8 | I was eating steak one night at dinner, almost choked on it, developed some kind of phobia surrounding things with meat |
1:12.3 | textures and I went vegetarian |
1:14.5 | overnight at that young age. Stayed vegetarian for 10 years during that time I |
1:19.4 | was also developing food allergies including a weed allergy and a dairy allergy. |
1:24.0 | And so by the time I was a teenager, I was really health conscious. |
1:27.8 | I was very aware of what was on food labels. |
1:29.9 | Had to get into that whole scene just to basically stay healthy. And then when I was |
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