John A. McDougall, M.D.
John A. McDougall, M.D.
He is an American physician, nutrition expert and author. He is a graduate of Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine and certified as an internist by the Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. His website is Dr. McDougall's Health and Medical Center. You can sign up for his newsletter at this link.
Dr. McDougall teaches better health through strict vegetarian cuisine. The basic McDougall diet is made of starches (such as rice, corn, beans, lentils, potatoes and sweet potatoes), vegetables and fruits - no animal products of any kind and no added oils. You can watch a video on his website that explains why he believes that the human diet should be based on starches.
He is the founder and medical director of the nationally renowned McDougall Program, a ten-day, residential program located at a luxury resort in Santa Rosa, California. At this resort, he has taken care of thousands of patients, through his live-in program. He believes that people should look and feel great and enjoy optimal health for a lifetime. He says that his diet not only promotes weight loss, but can also reverse serious illness, such as hearth disease, without drugs. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Dr. McDougall's Right Food's Inc., a line of strict vegetarian convenience meals that are consistent with his health-supporting guidelines of 10% or less calories from fat.
He is the author of several books, including
The McDougall Program,
The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss,
The New McDougall Cookbook
and
The McDougall Quick & Easy Cookbook.
He has also made several DVDs, including
Dr. McDougall's Total Health Solution for the 21st Century, McDougall's Medicine: Fighting the Big Fat Lies, with Fat-Free Truth
He has also created a collection of short videos on all types of subjects, including Healthy Pregnancy, Milk, White Rice, Should Women get a Mammography, Menopause and much more. These videos can be viewed on his website at the link: McDougall Moments.
Quotes by John A. McDougall:
| "Until you realize that you are a starch-eater, the solution to your health and weight problems will remain elusive. Once you understand that the bulk of your diet must come from starches, like rice, corn, beans, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, everything will fall into place. ... Most importantly, with starches at the center of your meals, you feel a sense of wellbeing and control. You have finally come home to your food. This way of eating is for life." |
| "People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to you dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein -- all the wrong foods for people. Look around the world and see where people are thin and healthy -- they live on a starch based diet --rice." |
| "A vegan diet avoids all foods from animal origin, but can still be based on Cokes, potato chips, and vegan cheesecake. At least half the vegetarians and vegans I know are overweight and unhealthy because of all the soy meats and cheeses, olive oil, nuts and seeds, simple sugars and refined flours they eat." |
| "All large populations of trim, healthy people, throughout verifiable human history, have obtained the bulk of their calories from starch. Examples of once thriving people include Japanese, Chinese, and other Asians eating sweet potatoes, buckwheat, and/or rice; Incas in South America eating potatoes; Mayans and Aztecs in Central America eating corn; and Egyptians in the Middle East eating wheat." |
| "Wherever you look, the primary source of calories for human beings has been starch and when they've consumed those calories, they've had no type 1 or type 2 diabetes. They've had no multiple sclerosis, heart disease as far as we know. ... They don't have coronary artery disease. They don't have multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, etc." |
| "Starch is a scientific term. Starch refers to plants that have high content of starch granules. ... And rather than try and work my way around it and call it things like plant food based or high carbohydrate or you know other words that have been used, vegetarian or vegan or whatever, I try and identify for people exactly what they need to focus on . ... People need to understand that the human being is a starch eater." |
| "In practical terms of the foods on your plate, starches are plant parts that contain very large quantities of carbohydrate and therefore can sustain human life. Non-starchy green, yellow, and orange vegetables are too low in energy; you would have to eat two bushel basketsful of cabbage to get sufficient calories to make it through the day. Fruits are plentiful in calories, but they are mostly simple sugars that fail to provide sustained appetite satisfaction." |
| "Starch turns to sugar which is the form
it enters the cells -- that's good or your cells would starve to
death. I know many of you are confused by high protein messages
-- if carbohydrate were bad for you then when you looked to
Japan you would see fat sickly lethargic people. And when the
Japanese moved to the US and ate less carbohydrate. they would get thinner and healthier. Is that what you see?" |
| "You will be amazed at how much suffering and disease can be reversed with a healthy diet. Our research shows a 65 mg/dl drop in high cholesterol levels in 11 days. Overweight women lose an average of 4 pounds eating all they want in 11 days. I recommend any plant foods -- they are all filed with phytoestrogens and other phytochemicals that benefit your health. Phyto of course means plants." |
| "There are no added fats in the program. In other words, we add no free oils to any of the foods. None of the foods are cooked in an oiled pan or anything that would add any free oil." |
| "World wide people with the strongest bones Chinese, African etc consume the least amount of calcium and vice versa. Animal proteins are the main cause of osteoporosis. Animal proteins are acidic and cause the bones to dissolve and change the kidney physiology so the bone material is urinated into the toilet." |
| "Ninety percent of our dioxin intake, which causes cancer and other serious problems, comes from eating dairy. This applies to other environmental chemicals as well. So if you cut out the dairy and meat, you've really cut down on your risk." |
Quotes are from his interview on PowerSurge, his second interview on PowerSurge, his 2009 interview with Prescription2000.com and his newsletter archive.
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