The Daily Mail: How Did Bill Clinton Get Well?

Everyone needs a reason to live.

“I want to live long enough to walk my daughter down the aisle and to see my grandkids born and grow up.”

This is what former President Bill Clinton said to Dr. Ornish when he asked him why he wanted to live longer. How did Clinton do it? He transformed his diet by re-reading Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program For Reversing Heart Disease book, and then becoming a vegan – the diet Dr. Ornish scientifically proved to reverse heart disease.

“Your genes are not your fate… if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.”

In this article in the London’s Daily Mail, Dr. Ornish tells the story of how he helped the former president get on the right track:

‘I asked him why… and he said, “I want to live long enough to walk my daughter down the aisle and to see my grandkids born and grow up,”‘ the consulting physician told the Huffington Post.

In 1993, Ornish said Hillary Clinton asked him to train the chefs at The White House, Camp David, and Air Force One to cook more healthfully for the first family.

He told the news website that he told the president ‘It’s not all in your genes.’

‘Your genes are not your fate… if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes,’ he recalled saying.

Ornish went on to explain the futility of genes ‘not to blame, but to empower, because if it’s all in your genes, there’s nothing you can do about it, and [Bill Clinton]’s one of the most powerful people on the planet.’

He said since Clinton started eating mainly fruits and vegetables, he’s been ‘doing great.’

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