It is a very conservative estimate, from just one year.
'rests per year (US) 6 ------------------------------------------------------- heart disease 709,894 cancer 551,833 stroke 166,028 diabetes 68,662 Chronic Liver Disease-Cirrhosis 26,219 high blood pressure 17,964 ------------------------------------------------------ .. Number of Americans Living with Diet- and Inactivity-Related Diseases ------------------------------------------------------- Seriously Overweight-Obese9 113,360,000 High Blood Pressure9 50,000,000 Diabetes10 15,700,000 Coronary Heart Disease9 12,600,000 Osteoporosis7 10,000,000 Cancer11 8,900,000 Stroke9 4,600,000 ------------------------------------------------------- ..'
How many could have "been saved", and enjoy good health, if they had been given sound nutritional advice?
'.. disease rates were significantly buttociated within a range of dietary plant food composition that suggested an absence of a disease prevention threshold. That is, the closer a diet is to an all-plant foods diet, the greater will be the reduction in the rates of these diseases.'
As they're all tested on animals, we can't know, but misleading results from animal tests have delayed use of some medicines.
"I cannot name one single case in which experiments on animals may have led to a useful result." -Dr med. Philippe Grin, G.P., Video Interview with CIVIS, July 1 1986.
"I am of the opinion that all experiments on animals should be abolished because they only lead us to error." Dr Marie-Louise Griboval, April 1987. Hans Ruesch, One Thousand Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection.
"As a physician, I am definitely opposed to animal experiments. They are totally useless, they don't contribute in any way to progress of medicine." Dr med. Jurg Kym, Physicians Have the Word, ATRA, December 1986. Hans Ruesch, One Thousand Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection.
"My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way of experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error ever committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity." Dr G. F. Walker, Medical World, December 1933.
Protest continues as whaling resumes 239The public is being regularly deceived by the drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies, loaded to generate the results they need, says Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal in an article...
