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PCRM (Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura C Dilley)
Thu Mar 16 13:55:56 1995
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:54:38 EST
From: Laura C Dilley <elsiedee@MIT.EDU>
Many of you will recognize PCRM as an organization of doctors and laypeople
which is well-regarded in scientific and nutritional circles and which advocates
vegetarianism. I thought this post would be a good break from all the recent
posts about the Meatout.
-Laura
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 01:26:34 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: PCRM/Spock/VEG*ism Slammed by Cooperative Extension!
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This isn't being posted to Vegan-L or any newsgroups. One of you will
have to do that. As many of you know, CE/4-H has a terribly anti-Veg, anti-AR
agenda. In NYS, this fall, Vegetarianism, and particularly VEGANISM was
attacked by the Herkimer and Oneida CE's.
And yet ANOTHER indication of the hidden agenda of Cooperative Extension:
Here we see ditsoid Stark's sophomoric attempt to de-value the PCRM's scientific
stand on Veg*ism. Stark wrote: "PCRM is widely known to be an animal
rights activist group". Send her, and the other cc: folks a message asking
her why she's so clearly anti-veg. Does the fact that the PCRM rejects
the animal model have ANY bearing on the validity of their nutritional stand?
No. So ask her why she feels the need to bring the animal issue up, and
why she used that tone.
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 14:25:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Christina Stark <cstark@cce.cornell.edu>
To: nutrition-bb@cce.cornell.edu
Cc: donna_scott@cce.cornell.edu, muriel_brink@cce.cornell.edu,
carol_anderson@cce.cornell.edu
Subject: Physician's Committee Guidelines
Food and Nutrition agents:
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine will call for the USDA
to recommend a vegetarian diet in its Dietary Guidelines for Americans
during a Feb. 1 press conference in San Diego. PCRM says that the meat
and dairy daily consumption recommendations should be dropped from the
Guidelines. Their new release, embargoed until Feb. 1, is attached. PCRM
is widely known to be an animal rights activist group.
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
5100 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 686-2210 FAX (202) 686-2216
NEW RELEASE
Contact: David B. Wasser, Media Director
For Release: Wednesday, February 1, 1995
DR. SPOCK, HEIMLICH, AND OTHERS SAY: DROP MEAT AND MILK REQUIREMENTS FROM
DIET GUIDELINES
Two of the world's most respected physicians, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Dr. Henry
Heimlich, will speak at a press conference on Wednesday, February 1 in San
Diego to call for a major revamping of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the
blueprint on which government nutrition programs and recommendations are
based.
The change, drafted by Andrew Nicholson, M.D., and Neal Barnard, M.D., of the
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), would create a
"recommended" category for vegetarian foods, while moving meats and dairy
products into an "optional" category, not recommended for daily use.
The press conference will be at the San Diego Princess Resort Hotel, Sunset
Ballrooms 3 & 4, at 10:00 am. Dr. Benjamin Spock, 94, is the author of "Baby
and Child Care," the leading child care guide and one of the best selling
books of all time. Dr. Henry Heimlich is universally known as the inventor of
the Heimlich Maneuver, a technique that has saved tens of thousands of lives
since its invention in 1974. Norman Vincent Peale once said of Dr. Heimlich
that "he has saved more lives than any living person."
The PCRM proposal has been endorsed by 20 leading physicians ( a list
follows.) They believe a diet of grains, vegetables, legumes, and fruits is
ideal because of research which shows that:
* Heart disease can be reversed by diet and lifestyle changes
* 30-60% of cancers are cause by diet
* Health care costs could be slashed if Americans ate better
According to Dr. Barnard, the government's dietary guidelines do not reflect
current nutrition knowledge. "The guidelines have been repeatedly watered
down by agricultural interests. The Food Pyramid recommends 2-3 servings of
both meat and dairy products per day. It should be revamped, or even
dropped." The doctors' suggested revisions have been sent to the Dietary
Guidelines advisory panel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Health and
Human Services. While advisory panels have been repeatedly lobbied by
commercial food manufacturers and farmers, this is the first time that leading
physicians have joined together to call for a major revision.
Other points recommended by the physicians:
- -Weight control recommendations should emphasize low-fat, high-carbohydrate
diets and exercise, rather than calorie-cutting.
- -The 30% limit on fat intake (as a percentage of calories) should be reduced
to 10-15%.
The signatories include:
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Author, "Baby and Child Care"
Henry Heimlich, M.D.
The Heimlich Institute
Dean Ornish, M.D.
Preventive Medicine Research Institute
William C. Roberts, M.D.
Editor, American Journal of Cardiology
Executive Director, Baylor Cardiovascular Institute
Peter Wood, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Department of General Surgery
Frank Oski, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University
Oliver Alabaster, M.D.
Director, Institute for Disease Prevention
George Washington University Medical Center
Neal D. Barnard, M.D.
President, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine
Andrew Nicholson, M.D.
Director of Preventive Medicine
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Milton Mills, M.D.
Georgetown University
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Physician and Author
Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH
Lifestyle Medicine Institute
David Perlmutter, M.D.
Physician and Author
Michael Klaper, M.D.
Physician and Author
Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Author, "Get Healthy Fast"
David T. Nash, M.D.
Physician and Researcher
Charles Attwood, M.D.
Physician and Author
Lawrence H. Kushi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public
Health, University of Minnesota
Daisy Franzini, M.D.
James Craner, M.D.
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Christina Stark email: cstark@cce.cornell.edu
Division of Nutritional Sciences phone: 607-255-2141
MVR Hall fax: 607-255-0027
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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