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
The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've… — 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
