"As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease."

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Source : Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2007). “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure”, p.10, Penguin

Caldwell Esselstyn

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“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”
“This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.”
“If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.”
“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused”
“The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.”
“If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desiresâ€¦then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.”
“Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.”
“So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.”

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