Dr. Dean Ornish
“I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”
Dr. Dean Michael Ornish is a physician and president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in California, as well as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Ornish was recognized as “one of the most interesting people of 1996” by People magazine; selected as one of the “TIME 100” in integrative medicine; honored as “one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years;” chosen by LIFE magazine as “one of the fifty most influential members of his generation;” and by Forbes magazine as “one of the seven most powerful teachers in the world”.
He is a strict vegan for health reasons.
Preventive Medicine Research Institute (non-profit)
The Ornish Spectrum