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John A. McDougall is an American physician and author who has written that degenerative disease can be prevented and treated with a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based/vegan diet—especially one based on starches such as potatoes, rice, and corn—which excludes animal foods and added vegetable oils. McDougall's diet – The McDougall Plan – has been categorized as a fad diet that carries some disadvantages, such as a boring food choice and the risk of feeling too hungry.

Early years education and career

McDougall is a graduate of Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine. He performed his internship at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1972 and his medical residency at the University of Hawaii. He is certified as an internist by the Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners.

In 1965, at age 18, McDougall suffered a massive stroke, which he attributed to his high animal product diet. Since the mid-1970s, he has followed mostly a vegan diet after observing that elderly patients from the Far East, who lived mainly on rice and vegetables, were trim and healthy compared to their offspring tempted by an American diet.

Between 1973 and 1976, McDougall worked as a physician at the Hamakua Sugar Plantation on Hawaii Island. It was during this time that he first became aware of the link between his patients' dietary choice and their health. Between 1986 and 2002, he launched a vegetarian dietary program at St. Helena Hospital in the Napa Valley, California. Between 1999 and 2001, he also ran his dietary program for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

McDougall is currently on the advisory board of Naked Food Magazine, for which he is also a regular contributor of articles espousing a plant-based diet.

Diet programs and products

In 2002, McDougall began the McDougall Program at the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, California. The McDougall Program is a 10-day live-in program where patients work to regain their health by eating a vegetarian diet (without limits) and where they hear lectures by McDougall and other health professionals.

McDougall is the co-founder and chairman of Dr. McDougall's Right Foods Inc., which produces food products for grocery stores, and a member of the advisory board of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. In 2000, The Press Democrat described McDougall and his wife as operating "a small industry, with several cookbooks, a newsletter, a Web site, vegetarian meal cups sold across the country, and a nationally syndicated TV show."

McDougall is the author of several books, including The McDougall Plan (1983). The McDougall plan has been categorized as a fad diet with possible disadvantages including a boring food choice, flatulence and the risk of feeling too hungry. Reviewing McDougall's book, The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss, nutritionist Frederick J. Stare and epidemiologist Elizabeth Whelan criticized its restrictive regime and "poor advice", concluding that the diet's concepts were "extreme and out of keeping with nutritional reality".

See also

• Caldwell Esselstyn
• Neal D. Barnard
• T. Colin Campbell
• Vegan nutrition
• Michael Greger
• Dean Ornish

References

1. "Dr. McDougall's Health & Medical Center » About Us". Drmcdougall.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
2. McDougall, John A. "Dr. McDougall's Color Picture Book". Retrieved 18 May 2016.
3. ^ Alters S, Schiff W (22 February 2012). Chapter 10: Body Weight and Its Management (Sixth ed.). Jones & Bartlett Publishers. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4496-3062-1. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
4. ^ "Dr. McDougall, Why Do You Act That Way?" (Vol.8, No.4). The McDougall Newsletter. April 2009. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
5. "Interview with Dr. John McDougall". Famousveggie.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
6. Robin Asbell, “Practicing What He Preaches”, Better Homes and Gardens Heart Healthy Online.
7. Sunny Aslam, “Vegetarian diet on solid ground, experts say”, USA Today, 28 November 2001.
8. "When it comes to diet, how low (in fat) can you go?", Rocky Mountain News, 11 August 1993.
9. Stare FJ, Whelan EM (1998). The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss by John A. McDougall M.D. (Book review). Hunter House. pp. 202–203. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

• 20th-century American physicians
• Michigan State University alumni
• University of Hawaii alumni
• Living people
• 1947 births
• Veganism activists
• American people of Irish descent
• 21st-century American physicians