Neal Barnard Quotes

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Animal, Giving

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• Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

  Neal Barnard

  Meat Consumption, Hands, Use

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• I am always struck by how difficult it is for people to see how much cruelty they are bringing not only upon animals but upon themselves and their loved ones and other people, how much we are screwing up the planet, how much we are hurting our own health, how hard it is to change all that, how eager people are to make a buck at everybody else's expense - all those things are discouraging.

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  Hurt, Animal, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Neal Barnard

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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• The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

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  People, Carbohydrates, Planets

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

  Neal Barnard

  School, Eggs, Meat

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• Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.

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  Children, Numbers, Population

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

  Neal Barnard

  Needs, Olive Oil, Care

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• The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are healthier ways that you can put this into your life. And the three big ones are intimacy ... physical activity ... and the third thing is music.

  Neal Barnard

  Drug, Important, Cocaine

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.

  Neal Barnard

  Moving, White, Meat

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

  Neal Barnard

  Memories, Taste Buds, Week

  Neal D. Barnard, Bryanna Clark Grogan (2008). “Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs”, p.64, Rodale

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• Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.

  Neal Barnard

  Loss, Soda, Kidneys

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Oil

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• If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.

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  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.

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  Animal, Long Ago, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Blood, Labs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Meat, Vegan

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• I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

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  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Japan

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.

  Neal Barnard

  People, Weight, Guides

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

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  Animal, Meat, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.

  Neal Barnard

  Thinking, People, Bird

  Source: therumpus.net

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