Esselstyn Quotes

#1. I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#2. None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.

Richelle Mead

#3. Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#4. Whether through grains, beans, or even fruit, there's plenty of protein in a plant-strong diet. We only need 5-8% of our calories from protein, and since protein is the one macronutrient that we can't store, when you get above 15% it either stores as fat or we excrete it.

Rip Esselstyn

#5. If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

Douglas Coupland

#6. Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#7. If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never ever exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress.

Dr. Esselstyn

#8. As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#9. Heart disease is a food-borne illness.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#10. Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

Richard Curtis

#11. Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#12. Is the murk which lives inside me,
actually a dead star?

Sameer Khan

#13. Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.

Rip Esselstyn

#14. Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#15. Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

Ione Skye

#16. If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#17. Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.

LeBron James

#18. There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Will Oldham