BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a story titled 'Doc closing practice over 'systemic' issues amid family medicine 'crisis',' published Jan. 26.
If doctors truly wanted to avoid burnout and get the health-care system out of this crisis freefall, they would acknowledge, train in and educate their patients in the over 100 years of research that unequivocally shows that a 100 per cent whole-food, plant-based dietary lifestyle can prevent up to 80 per cent of all chronic illnesses, as well as reverse many of these that are crippling our health, our health-care system, and destroying our environment.
See the research of Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. John Mcdougall, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Walter Kempner, Nathan Pritikin, Dr. Roy Swank, Dr. Denis Burkitt, etc.
Until and unless this happens, any hope of sustainable, affordable and effective health care will be essentially unattainable.
Nick Arrizza, MD (retired)
Stoney Creek
