Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. I'm thrilled that you've

decided to join me today because the more I learn about the latest in nutrition research, the more

convinced I am that this information can make a real difference in all our lives. And I like nothing

better than sharing it with you. I'm on a year-long deep dive into the science of obesity for my

next book, How Not to Diet. I'm so excited about all I'm learning and can't wait to share all

the findings with you. Today, I'm having a report a bit of what I learned about the optimal diet.

As it turns out, the most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical

literature is also one of the most effective. England has been keeping more talenty statistics since

1665. When yes, one person fell down, some stairs and died, but in that week nearly 4,000 people

died of the plague. Today, the modern plague is heart disease, the number one killer of men and women.

But it wasn't always this way. If you dig back into those old statistics, by the middle of last

century, heart disease was already killing a 5% to 10% of the population, but is practically unknown

at the beginning of the 20th century. Check out the natural history of coronary heart disease

just in the 1920s and 30s skyrocketing 10 fold in men and the same in women. What was going on?

A clue could be found if you split people up by socioeconomic class. It was the richest folks

who had up to trouble the heart disease as the poorest. Maybe it had something to do with their rich

diets? You don't know until you put it to the test. And doing so,

discovered the natural cure of coronary heart disease. Discovered decades ago by Prittikin,

a plant-based diet and lifestyle program followed by Dr. D. Nournish, and then Estleston at the

Cleveland Clinic. But how many know of the name Hans Diel? Dr. Diel was the first director of

research at the Prittikin Center back in 1976. He was inspired by the amazing results they

were getting at the Prittikin Center. Amazing results like that of a certain grandmother Gregor's.

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