{"id":9979,"date":"2014-08-18T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2016-10-17T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T01:04:23","slug":"dr-ellsworth-wareham-99-years-old-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/dr-ellsworth-wareham-99-years-old-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, 99+ Years Old Vegan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Ellsworth Wareham<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>~ As a middle-aged man, Wareham spent a lot of time in the operating room cutting into one patient after another who had heart problems. There, he noticed something: patients who were vegetarian mostly had much cleaner and smoother arteries than those who ate meat. The arteries of meat-eaters tended to be full of calcium and plaque.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

So he made a choice. He decided to become a vegan.<\/strong> <\/span>That decision was not too hard to make given the fact that many of the inhabitants of his southern Californian community were already very health conscious. Consider: there is no meat sold at one of the largest grocery stores in town. In fact, as recently as a generation ago, meat was difficult to find in the grocery stores of Loma Linda, as the New York Times reports. On top of that, smoking is banned in the town; alcohol is scarcely available; and fast food restaurants are hard to come by. ~ – Source<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

~ Dr. Wareham attributes his health at least partly to the fact that he has been a vegan for the last 30 or 40 years (he does not remember precisely)<\/strong><\/span>. ~ – Source<\/a>.<\/h4>\n