Background
Esselstyn was born in New York City in 1933. He grew up on a cattle farm in upstate New York and attended public schools.
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Esselstyn was born in New York City in 1933. He grew up on a cattle farm in upstate New York and attended public schools.
He attended Deerfield Academy for high school and graduated from Yale University in 1956 where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
Esselstyn is the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (2007), which argues for a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based diet. He recommends avoiding all animal products, as well as reducing or avoiding soybeans, nuts, avocados and oils. The diet has been advocated by former United States. President Bill Clinton
Esselstyn"s diets have been criticized for being promoted as having health benefits beyond what are supported by sound medical evidence.
Esselstyn received his Doctor of Medicine from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1961.
Esselstyn was an intern (1961-1962) and resident (1962-1966) at the Cleveland Clinic. In 1968 he completed a tour as an Army surgeon in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star.
He served as the President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons in 1991. In 2000 he gave up his post at the Cleveland Clinic.
Esselstyn has conducted research into diet and heart disease and – in common with his contemporaries Dean Ornish and T. Colin Campbell – has devised a dietary program which he claims can prevent heart disease.
Commenting on the diet, Harriet A. Hall has written that the claims made for it are misleading and that the evidence on which it is based is "pretty skimpy". In 2007 Esselstyn"s Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease was published, which discusses his patients" claimed reversals of atherosclerosis on the diet. The book contains recipes from Ann Crile Esselstyn, who advises patients about cooking practices.
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He also competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, winning a gold medal in the "eights" as a member of the American team Upon his return he rejoined the clinic and has served as the President of the Staff and as a member of its Board of Governors. Esselstyn is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Nutrition Action magazine, published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.