th Year! Our 27 THE veGan aDVoCaTe Volume XXVII, Number 4 November 2016- January 2017 Rochester, NY USA LOCAL DOCTORS URGE THEIR A VEGAN DIET PATIENTS TO GO VEGAN! lecture series, which both members of the What is it, and Why? general public and health professionals can benefit from, and for which over 200 hours If you are not a vegetarian or a member When it comes to health care, Rochester holds its own against other communities. We of continuing medical education credit have of the Rochester Area Vegan Society even like to think we’re better than most. been issued. (RAVS), this column is for you. Here are One area in which the Rochester medical One physician who took the Plant- some of the basics. community shines is its knowledge and Based Diet course in the spring of 2016 was A vegetarian is someone who eats no promotion of a whole food plant-based (i.e., Dr. John (Chad) Teeters, the Chief of animal flesh: no meat, poultry or fish. A healthy vegan) diet. Cardiology at Highland Hospital. Dr. Teeters vegan is a vegetarian who goes further and In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the evidence became vegan and lost 60 pounds; you can eats no animal products at all: no eggs, started to mount that a vegan diet is not just read his testimonial at the RLM website, cheese, milk, or honey. RAVS recommends safe and healthy, but optimal for health; and roclifemed.com. Dr. Teeters presented the a vegan diet as the optimal diet. that it can not only prevent but even reverse September Lifestyle as Medicine lecture, What are the reasons to go vegan? It the chronic diseases that plague those on a sharing his own story and talking about how comes down to these: for your health, for meat-based diet. Dean Ornish, MD and vegan diet can reverse heart disease. the animals, and for the planet. Every day Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD showed that a Another physician who now sees the there are new findings that a plant-based plant-based diet can reverse heart disease. value of plant-based diet to prevent and treat diet is best for health. The standard Neal Barnard, MD showed that it can cancer is Dr. James Fetten. Dr. Fetten American diet (SAD), which revolves reverse type 2 diabetes. And clinicians specializes in hematology and oncology at around meat and animal products, results in everywhere were using this diet to reverse the Wilmot Cancer Institute. poor health for people, suffering for obesity, high blood pressure, and auto- In October, Dr. Michael Klaper, author animals, waste of resources, and devastation immune disease. of Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple and a clinician with 45 years of experience using for the environment. But changing your diet In recent years, local physicians have vegan diet, gave two lectures, one at the can be hard, and people who want to change started practices which help their patients take charge of their own health, and prevent RAVS meeting and one as part of the RLM often need help. lecture series. Dr. Klaper also gave a If you want to move in this direction, and reverse disease with lifestyle change. One such program is the UR Nutrition in lunchtime lecture to an overflow crowd of RAVS can help you. We are here to provide Medicine Program run by Thomas 45 University of Rochester medical students information and support. You do not need to Campbell, MD and Erin Campbell, MD, who were avid to hear his message. Dr. be a vegetarian or vegan to give us a call, to MPH. This program offers a lifestyle Klaper continues to work with the UR attend our meetings, or to join our group. intensive program; a residential immersion medical school, which is interested in And you don’t need to be a member to program; and educational outreach to the incorporating plant-based information into attend our meetings: guests are always community in the form of the Lunch with its curriculum. welcome, and you don’t have to reserve Docs series, all of which are centered around It doesn’t take Bob Dylan winning the beforehand. You only need to follow our plant-based diet. Another such program is Nobel Prize to know that the times, they are “vegan rule” for the dinner meetings (see Rochester Lifestyle Medicine (RLM), a-changin’. For an up-to-date (and ever- box on p. 2 for a full explanation), and there founded by RAVS Coordinator Ted D. growing) list of Rochester area physicians is a $3 guest fee for non-members. Come to Barnett, MD. RLM offers CHIP (Complete and other health care professionals who are a meeting, give us a call at (585) 234-8750, Health Improvement Program), a medically veg-friendly, go to the home page of the or visit our website, rochesterveg.org. You supervised program using plant-based diet RAVS website, rochesterveg.org, and also will find us helpful and welcoming. ! and other lifestyle changes in a group setting the RLM website, roclifemed.com. ! with trained facilitators. RLM has assembled a team of more than thirty health care Metro Justice’s 35th Annual providers that includes physicians, nurses, Alternative Fair! IN THIS ISSUE dietitians, social workers, yoga instructors, and cooking teachers. Homemade Veggie Food, RAVS Update p. 3 RLM teaches a six-week course in Free Child Care Tips on Going Vegan p. 4 Plant-Based Diet which is offered both to Friday, December 2nd, 5 pm to 9 pm Recipes p. 5 the general public, and to health care Saturday, December 3rd, 10 am to 2 pm In the News p. 6 professionals for continuing education First Unitarian Church Poem: “Dinner” p. 7 credit; so far almost 60 health care providers 220 Winton Road South Calendar p. 8 have taken the course for credit. Another $3 Suggested Donation (ages 12 and up) part of RLM’s educational outreach to the community is the Lifestyle as Medicine RAVS will have a table! Page 2 Rochester Area Vegan Society RAVS RULES FOR SHARE-A-DISH MEALS All dishes must be completely vegan. They may not contain any meat, poultry, fish, eggs, Coordinators: dairy products or honey. Please watch out for gelatin (a meat by-product) and hidden milk products, Ted D. Barnett, M.D. such as whey in cookies, crackers, bread and margarine and casein or caseinate in so-called “non- Carol Hee Barnett, Ph.D., J.D. dairy” soy cheese, coffee creamer and whipped topping. Be alert for eggs in baked goods, mayonnaise and salad dressings, and honey in breads, pastries and preserves. Board of Directors: This “vegan rule” embodies our mission of showing how abundant and delicious a vegan meal can be. It also means that members and guests who are vegan can freely partake of everything. If Shelley Adams Leena Isac you mistakenly bring a dish that is non-vegan, you will be very welcome to stay for the meal, but Carol Hee Barnett Ken McBride we will not be able to serve your dish. Please understand that no offense is meant by this. Ted D. Barnett Daryl Odhner Please prepare a card with your name, the name of the dish, and a list of all ingredients. If Beth Garver Beha Ted Potter possible, write the recipe on the back of the card and indicate where the recipe came from or if it Ellie Cherin Barbara Savedoff was original. Prepare enough to serve a crowd. Please bring your own table setting as well as a Kimber Gorall Joy Vandling serving utensil. If you are not able to cook, you may bring fruit, cider, tortilla chips and salsa, green salad, fruit salad, etc. Non-members, in addition to bringing a dish, must pay a $3 Guest Fee, which Nancy Hallowell will be applied to your membership if you join that day. RAVS Staff: Treasurer: Ken McBride IF YOU ARE NEW TO RAVS These are both excellent groups, and Website: Ted Barnett both have mail-order bookshops which are Ted Potter You don’t need to be a vegetarian, included in the publication they will send Library: Leena Isac or a member of RAVS, to attend one of you when you join. our events. And you don’t need to reserve Another not-so-tangible benefit of The Vegan Advocate Staff: or notify us beforehand (with the your membership in RAVS is that you Editors: Carol and Ted Barnett exception of restaurant events). We do ask help others, namely, the people we reach Contributors: that you follow the “vegan rule” at our through our community education efforts, Poetry Bruce Ross, Ph.D. dinner meetings. The box above, and the which are funded by your dues. Pamphlets Logo Design Bern Berg calendar and directions on the back page we distribute at an outreach table at a of the newsletter, tell you what you need health or environmental fair cost money. The Rochester Area Vegetarian Society, now the to know in order to attend a meeting. Call That's why your membership and renewal Rochester Area Vegan Society, was founded in 1989 234-8750 if you have further questions. by Rhoda and Stan Sapon, two dedicated activists are important even if we never see you at who worked hard to embody their vision of a MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS a meeting—though, of course, we hope compassionate, non-violent world in a local Membership in RAVS entitles you to that we do. ! community promoting vegan values: the idea that receive The Vegan Advocate (4 times a animals have a right to their own lives and don’t exist BOOK ORDERS FROM RAVS to provide food or to be exploited by us in any way.