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Originally Posted by Signey
I must say in Dr. Ornish's defense that he has helped many people heal from debilitating heart problems.
Sig
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Well, so the legend and folklore says, but the facts say otherwise. For one thing, his diet has NEVER, EVER, in ANY STUDY shown to reverse heart disease. EVER.
His TOTAL PROGRAM, which includes meditation sessions, group help, smoking cessation, exercise, and his severely limited diet, had tiny effects on some x-ray exams, but ZERO effect on death rate. In other words, people on the complete Ornish regime died at the same rate as people were not on the plan.
Here's Colpo on the subject:
"The Multicenter Lifestyle Demonstration Project sought to apply the intervention in Ornish's original trial to a larger group of patients recruited from clinics across the US.(40) Practitioners from eight medical centers around the country were trained in all aspects of the Lifestyle program, which they proceeded to administer to patients with coronary artery disease. The study was not a randomized, controlled trial; instead, outcomes in the 194 patients who completed the intervention were compared with 139 patients who did not take part in the Lifestyle program.
After 3 years, there were no significant differences in cardiac event rates nor mortality between patients in the intervention and control groups. The number of cardiac events per patient year of follow-up when comparing the experimental group with the control group was as follows: 0.012 versus 0.012 for myocardial infarction, 0.014 versus 0.006 for stroke, 0.006 versus 0.012 for non-cardiac deaths, and 0.014 versus 0.012 for cardiac deaths (none of the differences were statistically significant)."