We need a new Dietary Goals for the United States.
We need a government that will stand up and tell the truth to the people. We need a society that will not tolerate
uncivilized behavior like letting our children be sick.
You do not want physicians as your best friends. You don't want your calendar littered with doctor's appointments.
Look at your parents, your grandparents, the people around you. Once they pass 30 or 40 years old,
I mean, they might not all get heart disease, but if they don't have heart disease,
they're fat, or they've got a stroke, or they've had cancer, or or they've got
constipation, or-- I mean, they're all sick.
Military be sick, and our poor people be sick, and our workers be sick because of
the diet of kings and queens.
Every doctor should know this.
The reason people are sick is because they eat the high-protein, high-fat, high-cholesterol, immune-stimulating,
autoimmune-causing rich Western diet and that we can cure our patients by feeding them rice, corn, potatoes, beans, peas, lentils.
An oatmeal for breakfast, hash brown potatoes.
For lunch, you need to have bean soup, pea soup, lentil soup.
For dinner, you have bean burritos, pasta marinara sauce, mushu vegetables and rice.
You say, "I could do that!"
Heart disease, prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis.
Can't you see it? Can't you see it?
All successful, large populations of people in all of recorded history have lived on starch-based diets.
Stop the liars. Stop the polluters. Stop the cheaters.
People distort what you say. They distort the truth.
Those of you who know me know exactly what Mary and I have recommended for 40 years,
which is in all of our books. All of our 13 books say the exact same thing.
Every public statement that I have ever made has been exactly the same.
What we teach is a diet based on starch.
Starch, yeah. Starch.
I'm Dr. John McDougall.
(various voices) Dr. McDougall. --Dr. John McDougall. --Dr. John McDougall. --Dr. McDougall. --Dr. McDougall.
John McDougall is the reason that we're all here this weekend.
I've been in this business for 44 years.
And I'm the luckiest doctor in the world because my patients get well.
And anyone who says differently is distorting my message.
The facts are absolutely clear, but there's a blindfold here...
And they lie about it.
...and that blindfold is full of dollar bills, because that's how you make the money.
And they should be ashamed of themselves.
It's up to you.
Nobody's going to come and save you with early detection or treatments. These things are not good with few exceptions.
You're gonna save yourself by your diet and lifestyle.
We shouldn't be going and getting mammograms and prostate blood tests on people.
We should tell them not to eat that high-fat, high-animal-product, highly contaminated diet.
But that's not where the money is.
At age 18, it kind of came together with a pretty dramatic event. I had a massive stroke,
which paralyzed the entire left side of my body. And that put me in the medical business.
And I spent the next two years
studying in the scientific library, in the medical library, next to Queens Medical Center to see whether anybody else had made this observation.
From my lips to my hips.
The fat you eat is the fat you wear.
I knew at that point what caused most diseases.
People who live on starch--rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes--are thin, healthy, hearty, young-looking.
We have truth. We have success.
But unless we fix the food,
it's game over, because the major cause of global destruction is the livestock industry.
That's what the meat and the dairy industry have accomplished so far.
The world is worth saving,
and the major step that we must take right now is to change our source of calories.
I'll get down and dirty with you.
Because change is coming. There's no question about that.
There are some serious distractions that are going on...
I'm a street fighter.
...that will cause planet earth to burn in hell.
You know, I'll do whatever I can to save your children...
You start with Forks over Knives...
...to save the environment...
...then you watch Cowspiracy...
...and even these days to save the animals.
...and then you watch Earthlings.
It's very simple.
And that will give us enough breathing room so we can fix the other problems so that my grandchildren
will be able to have a life in the future.