McDougall Stars and Announcements

People Passionate About Starches Are Healthy and Beautiful

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:06:41 -1000

My wife, Mary, and I were enjoying steamed sweet corn (vegan) tamales with a side dish of black beans served to us at a bayside table at Guaymas Mexican/Seafood restaurant in Tiburon, a small town located a few miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. At an inside table next to us sat three plump women, their short sleeves revealing upper arms almost as big as my thighs. They were elegantly dressed and from their speech I knew they were well educated. During the course of our meal I watched all three of them at various times hobble with painstaking efforts from their table to the restroom and back.

Urgent: Support the Proposed New Law in California Requiring Doctors to Provide Patients with Information on Diabetes and Heart Disease

31 2009 08:05:36

Patients often receive inadequate and/or incorrect information from their doctors on diabetes and heart disease. For example, on heart disease, inadequate information is received on these three important issues:

Report on the February 2009 Costa Rica Trip

31 2009 08:04:32

We had another highly successful adventure to Costa Rica. I have provided links below for pictures and comments about this trip.
Please join us for the July 8 to 15. 2009 McDougall Adventure trip to Costa Rica. More Information is found on my web site.

Featured Recipes March 2009

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:02:51 -1000

Chile Rellenos
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Tofu Sour Cream
Mango Salsa
Ola’s Chile Rellenos
Quinoa Corn Bread
Balsamic Vinaigrette
Chilean Porotos Granados
Barbecue Portobello Sandwiches

Five Reasons to Attend the Next 5 Day McDougall Enhanced Motivation Program

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:23:58 -1000

Twice a year we run a program dedicated to learning without medical care.
1. All of our highly entertaining staff participates, including John and Mary McDougall, Doug Lisle, PhD, Jeff Novick, RD, and our exercise and cooking instructors, providing daily lectures, exercise, cooking demos, and delicious meals.
2. This program also has a weight loss focus as an option with foods served at every meal that follow the principles of the McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss.
3. During this short commitment you will learn the basic nutrition and medical principles of the McDougall Program. For five days you will be immersed in a health-supporting atmosphere, which will inspire you to take better care of yourself, so that when you return home you will be able to benefit from the personal appearance and health you deserve.
4. Attendees enjoy all-you-can-eat buffet tables filled with dishes like, Lasagna, Burgers, Burritos, Minestrone Soup, Black Bean Soup, Thai Noodles, Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce, Costa Rican Potatoes and Beans, Shepherd's Pie, salads and desserts.
5. Cost for this 5-day weekend, including meals and education (excluding room), is $830 per person. Discounted room rates have been arranged. Held at the Flamingo Resort, Santa Rosa, CA.

Please call Carol at (800) 941-7111 or (616) 874-8155,
or e-mail her to sign up for this McDougall 5 Day Program

The McDougalls Invite You To Vacation in Costa Rica July 8-15, 2009

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:22:32 -1000

Exciting News! We are staying at a new hotel.
The Luxurious Hilton Papagayo Costa Rica Resort and Spa

Our next McDougall Adventure trip to Costa Rica is July 8 to 15, 2009.
The weather this time of the year is comfortable (mid 80s) with a late afternoon shower, and the hills are green with foliage. The animals are everywhere and easy to find. This will be our 11th highly successful adventure trip to this same destination. The Hilton Papagayo Costa Rica Resort and Spa is a beautiful location. View hotel photos here.
We'd love to have you join us.
More information about the adventure is available here.

Please call Carol at (800) 941-7111 or (616) 874-8155,
or e-mail her to sign up for this upcoming adventure.

40% Off DVD Spring Sale - $29.95 for 2 DVDs Dr. McDougall's Money-Saving Medical Advice Dr. McDougall's Common Sense Nutrition

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:19:44 -1000

Dr. McDougall's Money-Saving Medical Advice
Information contained in this DVD will save your life and thousands of dollars spent on diet gimmicks, supplements, and the wrong doctors.

In this series of lectures Dr. McDougall explains why:
Starches Are Essential. The current epidemic of obesity grew as starches became vilified. Historically, as well as worldwide today, people living on diets of potatoes, rice, corn, and sweet potatoes have always been trim, strong, active, youthful, and healthy. For maximum weight loss a few more green and yellow vegetables are added. Be careful! Too little starch results in feelings of hunger, fatigue, and frustration.
Vitamin Supplements, Save One, Can Be Deadly. Vitamins and minerals are essential for our health when delivered in their natural plant packages. Once isolated and concentrated into pills they can cause nutritional imbalances, sickness, and death. Vitamin D is actually a hormone made in the body with sunlight. Unnatural living can result in Vitamin B12 deficiency—this is the only supplement I recommend.
Choosing the Right Doctor. Sick people see doctors; your goal is to stay out of the medical businesses by being healthy. The McDougall Diet and a healthy lifestyle will prevent and cure common diseases. Select a generalist as your doctor-advocate. Specialists should be hired to do special things, not general patient-care. A consumer must be well educated, prepared, and skeptical when dealing with doctors and hospitals.

Dr. McDougall's Common Sense Nutrition
In this series Dr. McDougall challenges commonly held nutrition beliefs, such as:
Plants Are Incomplete Proteins. Almost every dietitian, doctor, and respected organization teaches animal foods are necessary in order to get sufficient amino acids from proteins. They are wrong, and the science says so. Plant foods provide complete nutrition long before they reach the dinner table. Informed consumers will avoid all that fat, cholesterol, and contamination mixed up with animal protein by choosing delicious dishes made from “complete protein” foods like potatoes, rice, and/or beans.
Soy Makes People Sick. Soy foods are at the center of one of the most intense controversies in nutrition; some people say they are medicines and some say poisons. They can be both, but as traditional foods, like tofu and soy milk, they are delicious additions to a healthy meal plan. However, fake meats, synthetic estrogens, and baby formulas made from soybeans are toxic.
Fish Is Good for the Heart. The belief that fish is the most important food for a healthy heart has led to the destruction of our oceans. Plants provide the safer, cleaner, environmentally sensitive, and original source of omega-3 fats. The real tragedy is this slaughter of sea life has been senseless because consuming fish does the body much more harm than good.

Introduction to New McDougall Book The Starch Solution

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:45:46 -1000

This truth is simple and is, therefore, easy to explain. You must eat to live. But the choice of what you eat is yours. There is an individual, specific diet that best supports the health, function, and longevity of each and every animal. The proper diet for human beings is based on starches. The more rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beans you eat, the trimmer and healthier you will be—and with those same food choices you will help save the Planet Earth too.

My recommendation for eating starches puts glazed looks on people’s faces, and many dismiss me as certifiably crazy. They think of starch as something used in the laundry to stiffen shirts. Starch brings back memories of pasty bland-tasting goop, and white, airy Wonder Bread. Most disturbing is that nearly everyone believes starches are fattening and nutritionally inferior foods. Fortunately, common knowledge is completely wrong and the proof is right before your own eyes.

Report from the February 20-22, 2009 Advanced Study Weekend

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:44:30 -1000

Over 160 people attended this biannual McDougall event in Santa Rosa, California. As always the enthusiasm, education, food, and friendship were over the top—far greater than anyone expected.

Standing in the presence of T. Colin Campbell, PhD is almost a religious experience. He got thundering ovations for his nutritional words of wisdom. Neil Nedley, MD gave two outstanding presentations, including information about his 10-day live-in program that treats depression with a 90% success rate. Pam Popper, PhD surprised and excited the audience with her experiences with the politics of nutrition and information on school lunch programs. Doug Lisle, PhD, Jeff Novick, RD, and John McDougall, MD provided their usual high quality entertaining information for the attendees.

Featured Recipes February 2009

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:43:08 -1000

Triple Lentil Dal

Wheat Berry Vegetable Soup

Beany Minestrone Soup

Ginger Dressing

Pea Guacamole

Tofu Cream Cheese

Advanced Study Weekend Recipes

Pappa al Pomodoro

Hopi Corn and Chili Stew

The Multiple Sclerosis and Diet Saga

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:40:25 -1000

People often ask me: Why are you spending $750,000 from the McDougall Research and Education Foundation to study the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) with your diet? Why not carry out research on a more common problem, like obesity, heart disease, or diabetes?

Most people can’t even pronounce “multiple sclerosis”—so they just call it MS. It is likely you don’t personally know anyone with this disease; after all, only 350,000 people in the United States and one million worldwide have it. You may have heard of it because a few famous people have made their disease public, like: lead anchor on Fox News Channel Neil Cavuto, former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, singer Lena Horne, comedian Richard Pryor, and talk show host Montel Williams. Only 10,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States annually, compared to half a million new major cancers and 1.25 million fresh heart attacks. So why pick MS?

For me, stopping multiple sclerosis with the cost-free, side-effect-free McDougall Diet is equivalent to throwing the biggest rock I can find at the biggest picture window in town. The shatter will be heard around the world. If diet can effectively treat a disease as mysterious and deadly as MS, then diet has to be a medical miracle—and could easily be capable of bringing to an end diseases long accepted as due to diet, like type-2 diabetes, heart disease, and common cancers. A simple cure for MS would startle even the most unconscious medical doctors into awakening. Plus, I owe this study, and much more, to my mentor Roy Swank, MD for his friendship, guidance, and pioneering work.

A Personal Profile

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:38:50 -1000

by Jeff Novick, Registered Dietitian at the McDougall Program

I have been interested in food and fitness for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest childhood memories involve helping my grandmother prepare food from scratch, and learning about wrestling from my grandfather. As a child my two favorite TV shows were Jack LaLanne and The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr. When I was in grade school, I petitioned my school to let me become the first male to take Home Economics instead of Industrial Arts (or “Shop” as it was called). I wanted to learn about food and cooking, not metal and woodworking. Sports, specifically gymnastics, wrestling, and soccer were also my interests.

Featured Recipes January 2009

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:37:16 -1000

Butternut Squash and Bean Soup

Corn Chowder

Kim Chi Noodle Soup

One Pot Pasta Jumble

Ribollita

Potato and Broccoli Soup

Spanish Beans and Greens

Squash and Peanut Soup

The Fat Vegan

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:22:52 -1000

You may consider this title an oxymoron—a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms, but in real life this concurrence is all too common. You may also think the title is offensive. My intention is to help, not to provoke anger. People who have declared themselves “vegan,” have said “no” to eating all animal-derived foods. At extraordinary personal costs, many of these guardians labor tirelessly to protect the welfare of all animals. Fat vegans, however, have failed one important animal: themselves. Furthermore, their audiences of meat-eaters and animal-abusers may be so distracted by their appearance that they cannot hear the vital issues of animal rights and the environment; resulting in an unacknowledged setback for a fat vegan’s hard work for change.

Favorite Five Articles from Recent Medical Journals

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:25:30 -1000

Undeniable Evidence: Diabetes Treatments Do More Harm Than Good
Brain Impairment from the Atkins Diet
Breast Cancers Spontaneously Disappear
The Ancient Human Diet Is Starch-based
Diet Benefits Prostate Cancer (Another Ornish Contribution)

Featured Recipes December 2008

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:28:30 -1000

Vegetable Udon Soup

Vegetable Curry

Lima Bean Soup

Quick Tomato Salsa

Lima Bean Surprise

Creamy Soy Dressing

Mango Raspberry Dressing

Featured Recipes November 2008

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:05:44 -1000

Fat Replacers
Vegetable Soup
Santa Fe Rice Salad
Spicy Garbanzo Spread
Lemon Scented Spinach Spread
Poultry-type Gravy
Light Yeast Flavoring Powder
Roasted Mushroom and Chard Stuffing
Chocolate Mousse with Raspberry Sauce

More than 2000 people have viewed the 17 minute video about the 10-day McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, California

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:52:52 -1000

Please send this along to a friend or relative who needs better health. Also tell them that there are over 400 free recipes and a complete free program on the McDougall web site.
Links to video and free program:
http://drmcdougall.com/health_10_day_program_video.html
http://drmcdougall.com/free.html

Advertising Passed Off As Research Confuses the Public

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:53:20 -1000

Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine
Expands the Indications for Statins—and the Public Suffers
Today’s (November 10, 2008) front page headlines worldwide announced a simple test called “highly sensitive C-reactive protein” (HS-CRP) and the most powerful cholesterol-lowering statin currently on the market, Crestor (rosuvastatin), used together, could cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and death from cardiovascular disease in half.1 For the casual reader, Crestor appears to be a miracle treatment with few risks and reasonable costs. Today’s publication adds to the belief of a growing number of experts that “statins are so wonderful that they should be added to our drinking water” (like fluoride).

The First Imaginary Conversation between President-Elect Barack Obama and His Newly Appointed Surgeon General, John McDougall, MD

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:54:38 -1000

Obama: Welcome to the job. I want to be clear that I have appointed you because I need someone who has new ideas that will inspire change. My one fear is that Congress will not confirm your appointment because many of the members represent interests of the food and drug industries - and you are well known to be a strong critic of both.
McDougall: I voted for you because I believe you are, foremost, interested in the welfare of people, not only Americans, but everybody. Being intelligent, articulate, and appearing unafraid also helped sway my vote.
The US Department of Health and Human Services says, “The Surgeon General serves as America's chief health educator by providing Americans the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury.” With two notable exceptions, which I will talk to you about later, the Surgeon General’s office has failed the American public. I am a general doctor; you should expect my interests to be solely focused on the welfare of people, not industry.

McDougall 10-Day Program - May 16 to 25, 2008

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:33:37 -1000

I Am the Luckiest Doctor in the World
My Patients Regain Their Lost Health and Look Great
I'm known as, "The Doctor Who Takes People Off Drugs"
Why Not? Sick People Take Medication
Join Us for the May 16 to 25, 2008
Ten-Day McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, CA
For more information call (800) 941-7111 or (616) 874-8155 or
e-mail carol@drmcdougall.com
McDougall Wellness Center P.O. Box 14039, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
http://www.drmcdougall.com
©2008 John McDougall All Rights Reserved

McDougall Breaking News Bill Clinton’s Madness: A Consequence of Heart-Bypass Surgery Brain Damage

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:16:24 -1000

We Need to Understand and Show Some Compassion
One of the savviest politicians of our generation, known for his wit, charm, and calm under extreme pressure, Bill Clinton appears out of character in the speeches and interviews televised since his bypass surgery September 6, 2004—and his mental deterioration may be accelerating. Remember, this is the president who withstood public impeachment before the entire world for his relationship with Monica Lewinski without once losing control. Now, he is easily angered by hecklers, and makes factual mistakes and racial slurs while aggressively defending his wife’s campaign for presidency. Everyone sees his mental and emotional decline, yet to date, no medical professionals have spoken out about the cause or offered help.

Sign Up Today for the McDougall Accelerated Learning and Powerful Motivation Program. April 23-27 in Santa Rosa

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:12:38 -1000

Twice a year we run a program dedicated to learning without medical care. All of our highly entertaining staff participates, including John and Mary McDougall, Doug Lisle, PhD, Jeff Novick, RD, and our exercise and cooking instructors, providing daily lectures, exercise, cooking demos, and delicious meals. This program also has a weight loss focus as an option with foods served at every meal that follow the principles of the McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss.

Star McDougaller Teresa Rodriguez

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:44:53 -1000

"Learning to Love Myself Again"

I love candy, especially Skittles. Sometimes I would even fall asleep with a mouthful of them. In the morning I would look in the mirror and hate the obese person I saw, yet I never connected the two. So, I stopped looking in the mirror, thinking that if I didn't see the problem it wasn't really there. This was in 2005. I was 30 years old, stood five-foot-eight, and weighed 245 pounds.

Star McDougaller Karen Barron

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:55:37 -1000

Finally, the path to permanent weight-loss
I began struggling with weight-gain after giving birth to my two children: I was 29 years old, stood 5'4", and weighed 165 pounds. In the early eighties I went through a divorce and other emotionally challenging periods and started eating as a way to comfort myself. In a matter of just a couple of years, I was 100 pounds overweight. I was now 37 and weighed 235 pounds.

McDougall Adventure News

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:04:23 -1000

Here's Why You Do Not Want to Miss the July 2008 Adventure Trip to Costa Rica
We enjoyed so much about the trip: the wonderful new friends we made; the chance to meet you both and learn more about nutrition and health; the daily adventures; the delightful and knowledgeable guides, who went out of their way to inform and accommodate all guests; the plentiful, scrumptious food; and the breathtakingly beautiful setting overlooking the Pacific Ocean. McDougall Adventures provided an awesome vacation and handled all details professionally, from greeting arriving guests at the airport to returning us there and making sure we were all in the right line for departing visitors, and everything in between.
This is without doubt the best vacation we have ever had.
Warmest regards,
- Teresa and Doug, Columbus, Ohio