 As I progressed through medical training, I could see the ground was definitely shifting. The conversation moved from treating and reversing individual cases of heart disease to an overdue requiem for palliative cardiology altogether, the year I graduated from medical school. In other words, resolving the whole coronary artery disease epidemic altogether through plant-based nutrition. So it's the latest. Ornish's first major study, more than 20 years ago, only included 28 patients on his plant-based diet, 28 patients that would go on to change medicine as we know it forever, but 28 patients nonetheless. Since then, he's published studies involving the reversal of heart disease in thousands of patients, proving that it can not only work in hippie California, but in Nebraska as well. Now, Ornish's just diet. It's a combo of low-fat whole foods, plant-based diet, rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, peas, lentils, and soy, along with moderate exercise, a walking few hours a week, and in addition to stress management. Now, other studies have focused exclusively on diet. For example, Neil Barnard's team recently published the first workplace intervention study, Geico Corporate Headquarters. A couple months of just educating employees about the wonders of plant-based diet, along with a few healthier options of the cafeteria, without changes in exercise, compared to a control worksite where employees were kept in the dark. And within a few months, with their newly acquired knowledge is power, the pounds and inches came off.