I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality. — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates. — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
