Vegan Jains
Vegan Jains
This is one in a series to videos that we are posting in time to be viewed at the Eco-Vegan booth at the JAINA Convention in Detroit over the July 4 2013 weekend.
Dr. Shrenik Shah:
I interviewed my parents' physician who has been practicing internal medicine for 27 years. Raised Jain and having learned more about the hinsa of dairy, after his patient brought him Diet for a New America, he decided to become completely vegan. He has been observing and especially in the last 6-8 months, promoting the health benefits of a vegan diet including weight loss and decreased cholesterol. He has collected data on 50-60 patients showing that veganism has resulted in a 50% drop in LDL levels among omnivores and 10-30% drop among previous vegetarians, beating the effect of the widely prescribed statin drugs. Dr. Shrenik Shah also shares his observations regarding patients' willingness to change especially among young and prediabetic patients.