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Dr. John McDougall joins lawsuit against new federal dietary guidelines

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Thanks for caring, Dr McDougall.

Dr. John McDougall joins lawsuit against new federal dietary guidelines | The Press Democrat

Santa Rosa physician and nutrition expert Dr. John McDougall has joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn one key change to the new federal dietary guidelines released last week.

McDougall, who champions a starch-based vegan diet, is part of a group calling for the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services to reinstate a dietary recommendation limiting cholesterol consumption to no more than 300 milligrams per day.

McDougall and three other physicians have joined the Washington-based nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in the suit against Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, raises concerns that food business groups have used their financial power to influence recent dietary research and have put “industry pressure” on guideline committee members who recommended removing the previous numeric limit on cholesterol.

“Their recommendations are hurting my patients,” McDougall said Tuesday.
 
He's not much of a doctor. A starch based vegan diet. Not healthy. Anyway, who would take any notice of this recommendation?
 
zyzygy said:
He's not much of a doctor. A starch based vegan diet. Not healthy. Anyway, who would take any notice of this recommendation?
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Nobody who has common sense.

He is an author padding his own pockets.
 
Spam spam spam spam......
 
SMTA said:
Nobody who has common sense.

He is an author padding his own pockets.
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anyone with common sense would know who is really padding their pockets.

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The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, raises concerns that food business groups have used their financial power to influence recent dietary research and have put “industry pressure” on guideline committee members who recommended removing the previous numeric limit on cholesterol."
 
Militant_Vegan_ said:
Thanks for caring, Dr McDougall.

Dr. John McDougall joins lawsuit against new federal dietary guidelines | The Press Democrat

Santa Rosa physician and nutrition expert Dr. John McDougall has joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn one key change to the new federal dietary guidelines released last week.

McDougall, who champions a starch-based vegan diet, is part of a group calling for the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services to reinstate a dietary recommendation limiting cholesterol consumption to no more than 300 milligrams per day.

McDougall and three other physicians have joined the Washington-based nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in the suit against Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, raises concerns that food business groups have used their financial power to influence recent dietary research and have put “industry pressure” on guideline committee members who recommended removing the previous numeric limit on cholesterol.

“Their recommendations are hurting my patients,” McDougall said Tuesday.
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You know what really tastes good?

Deer (or horse/donkey) heart tartare with a light mustard side and a nice bit of sweet potato, tempura style, for startch. Yes, normal flesh (meat) is OK for that, but the heart is amazingly good.

Makes me want to chop wood around Yellowknife for 3 months. In shorts.
 
Militant_Vegan_ said:
I guess if you find testimony from patients who lost weight and got healthier "amusing" you must have a lot of time on your hands on top of patrolling my posts. :)
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And you are far too busy to post here.
 
Militant_Vegan_ said:
Thanks for caring, Dr McDougall.

Dr. John McDougall joins lawsuit against new federal dietary guidelines | The Press Democrat

Santa Rosa physician and nutrition expert Dr. John McDougall has joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn one key change to the new federal dietary guidelines released last week.

McDougall, who champions a starch-based vegan diet, is part of a group calling for the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services to reinstate a dietary recommendation limiting cholesterol consumption to no more than 300 milligrams per day.

McDougall and three other physicians have joined the Washington-based nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in the suit against Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, raises concerns that food business groups have used their financial power to influence recent dietary research and have put “industry pressure” on guideline committee members who recommended removing the previous numeric limit on cholesterol.

“Their recommendations are hurting my patients,” McDougall said Tuesday.
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300 milligrams a day? What in the world is that guy smoking?

Thanks but I think I'll believe the American Heart Association over this numbskull. If anyone is harming his patients its him.
 
Kal'Stang said:
300 milligrams a day? What in the world is that guy smoking?

Thanks but I think I'll believe the American Heart Association over this numbskull. If anyone is harming his patients its him.
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Quite. He ought to be disbarred from practicing, assuming that he is a real doctor.
 
Kal'Stang said:
300 milligrams a day? What in the world is that guy smoking?

Thanks but I think I'll believe the American Heart Association over this numbskull. If anyone is harming his patients its him.
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he doesn't smoke or eat bad foods. He's a doctor.
 
zyzygy said:
A Mickey Mouse degree. I suppose that he can make living out of conning the gullible.
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wow, talk about gullible. 10 seconds of google shows you his degree

A graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, Dr. McDougall performed his internship at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and his medical residency at the University of Hawaii. He is certified as an internist by the Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He and Mary are also the authors of several nationally best-selling books as well as the co-founders of Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods, which produces high quality vegetarian cuisine to make it easier for people to eat well on the go.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/about/dr-john-mcdougall/
 
Militant_Vegan_ said:
wow, talk about gullible. 10 seconds of google shows you his degree

A graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, Dr. McDougall performed his internship at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and his medical residency at the University of Hawaii. He is certified as an internist by the Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He and Mary are also the authors of several nationally best-selling books as well as the co-founders of Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods, which produces high quality vegetarian cuisine to make it easier for people to eat well on the go.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/about/dr-john-mcdougall/
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He's still a quack. He claims to be a doctor but I doubt it.

Steve Jobs lived more than 30 years after developing pancreatic cancer thanks to his vegan diet.

That’s the preposterous claim made by Dr. John McDougall in a lecture that has been viewed by more than 52,500 people on YouTube Why Did Steve Jobs Die? - YouTube and widely touted in the vegan community as a scientifically sound example of veganthink.

McDougall speculates that Jobs first developed cancer in his twenties, which might well be the case given that most cancers develop years before diagnosis. But by that line of thinking, anyone diagnosed with cancer who has made it to mid life could be living thirty years past the initial cancer cell divide. Most of those people will have been on Standard American Diets, high in sugar, starch, factory-farmed animal products and all American junk food. Somehow McDougall holds that animal products caused those cancers but Jobs’s nearly lifelong obsession with veganism could only have prolonged his life!

So why did Jobs develop cancer despite what McDougall himself concedes was a “strict vegan diet” with few lapses over his lifetime? McDougall’s position — and he’s sticking to it! — is vegan diets prevent and cure cancer. Therefore, it must have been bad luck — the equivalent of “being struck by lightning” or “hit by a car” — that caused Jobs’s cancer and fueled its progression.

VeganThink: Dr. John McDougall Explains the Death of Steve Jobs - Weston A Price
 
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The purveyor of the potato/starch diet, John McDougall M.D., strikes again with more starchy gobbledy-gook nonsense about low carb/paleo diets.

There is so much to dissect and render inert in his article that it may take me three parts to accomplish the task. Perhaps I can lick it in two. But whether it takes two or twenty parts, lick it I will. I sure ain’t no Denise Minger, but I just can’t let this guy get away with such nonsense. His misinformation must not go un-blogged. (BTW, after you read this blog, DO go back and read Denise’s wonderful dissection of the China Study. Have coffee in hand.)

OK, now, I know the doctor means well. I know he wants the best for his patients. I know that deep down inside he truly feels he’s Dr. PotatoMan to the rescue. The question is, is he willing to concede and admit that the majority of the information in the article in question is in error? Can a man like Dr. McDougall take it on the chin and reverse his position stand on paleo/low carb nutrition?

I hate to say it but I seriously doubt it. He’s got too much invested in it already to say “I’ve been wrong.” And as we all know this is typical of many doctors and experts in the nutritional field like Dean Ornish, Caldwell Esselstyn, T. Colin Campbell, Joel Fuhrman, etc. who spew forth more nutritional misinformation than the wind passed at a bean festival.
Dr. McDougall a.k.a Dr. Potato Head
 
And the science is overwhelming! Well, if this guy says so, it must be true. But I wonder how he has come to this conclusion, since McDougall has not managed to convince any meaningful percentage of the medical community that outrageous claims are anything other than quackery. This total failure constitutes “overwhelming science”?

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Of those who had already been on the McDougall program for years, I had the following general observation: they don’t look too healthy. People who subsist on grains and simple carbs at the expense of quality protein for any length of time tend to lose muscle mass, regardless of their exercise regimen.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vegan-island/
 
step away from the internet for a few hours, son.
 
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