The food we were born to eat: John McDougall at TEDxFremont

starches. You love starch; I know you love him. When I mention rice and beans, you react very positively. If you mention pasta, say "Feel-good

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." Potatoes: "I grew up in the Midwest; if it weren't for mashed potatoes, I wouldn't be alive here today." So when someone tells you, "You need to give up meat and dairy," and doesn't finish the sentence, what you really need is to live on starch. for breakfast, oatmeal dishes, potato omelette; for lunch you need bean soup, pea soup, lentil soup; For dinner, bean burrito, pasta with tomato sauce, mu-shu vegetables and rice. Answer: "I can do that!" Of course you can, you love these

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We need this type of education. We need new dietary goals for America. We need a government that goes out and tells the truth to the people. We need a society that does not tolerate such uncivilized behavior as allowing our children to get sick, our soldiers to get sick, our poor to get sick, our workers to get sick because of the diets of the king and queen. And once we do that, we can change it, right? We can make a difference. Thank you so much! (Applause)