The system "is topsy-turvy, " says Dr. Dean Ornish , president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute.
Medicare is now covering "Dr. Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease" after 16 years of review.
Ornish has been advocating his diet for more than a generation now.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dean Ornish.
Now it is up to the AHA, and Ornish, to prove that their diets are better than, or even as good as, the Mediterranean diet.
After seven weeks on this low-tech form of medicine, recommended by his doctor and designed by California health guru Dr. Dean Ornish, Wes Miller started to get better.
This seems like a reasonable response, but Dean Ornish, probably the best-known and most passionate advocate of low-fat diets, goes much further in attacking the credibility of the trial.
"People often have a hard time believing they can get such powerful change from yoga, but they do, " says Dr. Dean Ornish, who has studied the health benefits of yoga.
As Dr. Ornish recalled it, the two of them were speaking to a room full of medical students when someone asked the swami to talk about the difference between illness and wellness.
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Dean Ornish is the founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and chairman of the Google Health Advisory Council.
In a talk he gave at the TED conference in 2006, Dr. Dean Ornish, who first became well known for talking up the benefits of diet and exercise in fighting heart disease, told a story about a year he spent studying under a well-known swami.
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