Re: Is Doctor McDougall aware of this?
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 12:35 pm
We already know that any type of weight loss will have some health benefits. Any type of diet intervention will also have some health benefits. It is possible that more use of unrefined foods and less animal products (or no animal products with vitamin b12 supplement) might get even better results. It is possible that lower fat unrefined vegan diet (less than 50% fat, less than 30% fat) might do even better. There are healthy eating gurus who do believe that higher fat unrefined vegan diets are also beneficial such as Dr Bill Harris, Dr Joel Fuhrman, Dr Michael Greger, nutritionist Brenda Davis, etc. so Virginia Messina is not alone in her opinions about the necessity or non necessity of low fat diets. When Dr Kim Williams was just starting to eat healthy for himself, he actually followed the higher fat portfolio diet (portfolio diet is about 30% fat and uses margarine enriched with plant sterols and almonds) of Dr David Jenkins but currently, Dr Kim Williams does recommend the low fat unrefined vegan diet of Dr Esselstyn for those with serious heart disease. Most people will find it hard to lose weight on high fat healthy vegan foods like nuts, seed, avocado which is probably why many people still use low fat unrefined vegan diets. Traditionally, the main use of nuts and seeds was to fatten up in preparation for expected future food scarcity. Traditionally, more olive oil was used in those places where people were not able to get enough calories from other foods bec of food scarcity.
Many years ago, Dr Michael Greger did a video on the high fat vegan diet (43% fat) of Dr David Jenkins :
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/2/e003505
More recently, Dr Michael Greger also did a video on the higher fat unrefined vegan diet of Dr Joel Fuhrman.
Many years ago, Dr Michael Greger did a video on the high fat vegan diet (43% fat) of Dr David Jenkins :
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/2/e003505
More recently, Dr Michael Greger also did a video on the higher fat unrefined vegan diet of Dr Joel Fuhrman.