"Four years ago I was told I need a triple bypass. I'd read the China Study the day before my arteriogram. So the day after, I couldn't work. I was scheduled for a triple bypass on Friday, I went out and found the book Prevent And Reverse Heart Disease [by Dr Esselstyn] and called my cardiologist and said, "I'm not doing this [the surgery]." So within six months, I had a normal stress test, my cholesterol is 114, LDL of 15. I felt better than I'd felt since I was 35. I'm 57 years old. So I knew that the diet was working."

"I went to Dr Esselstyn's seminar two months after my knee replacement and now we do those type of seminars in Oklahoma City. We started doing them quarterly. Now we do them monthly. We have 30 to 35 people -- kind of spreading the plant-based word in one of the most meat-centric areas of the country. I've been in practice since 1989. And I truly feel like I'm just now starting to practice true healthcare. Before, it was sickness care."

"I just finished a chapter for a book called Rethink Food and it's on the musculoskeletal effects of plant-based nutrition. As I studied that, I'm utterly convinced that at least 95 percent of what I see in my office as an orthopedic surgeon (I treat patients primarily that have shoulder disease) can be completely reversed with plant-based nutrition. So I really push this to my patients. The seminars were a result of me spending too much time talking to patients individually so we do it as a group."

Doctor Jimmy Conway woke up one morning with pain in his left arm. Considering his family history of heart disease, he was concerned. According to Conway's cardiologist, his cholesterol was nearly 500, and his triglycerides were over 3,200.

"I had 85 percent blockage of my anterior descending artery, the widow maker, 80 percent further downstream and 70 percent in my right coronary," Conway said.

Within a week, Conway was [scheduled to be] on the operating table. Then, five days before his scheduled open heart triple-bypass surgery, Conway decided to he was going to reverse his own heart disease with food. Conway made a major adjustment. He and his wife, Andrea Conway, switched to a whole foods, plant-based diet.

Within six months, Conway eliminated his own heart disease.