How To Save Your World & Your Body: My Cambridge University Talk

We can change our world and our health with a simple change.

VIDEOS:

Stefan Rahmstorf: The public climate debate — climate skepticism and denial.
https://youtu.be/J2gkWsaQ-7A

Richard Doll: The man who stopped smoking
https://youtu.be/VBWGM630zG0

The ACTUAL Cause of Type 2 Diabetes. Carbs?
https://youtu.be/X5GIExMa4rM

HARVARD: Red Meat Raises Diabetes Risk 62%. INTERNET: Nope.
https://youtu.be/NgfTit87RYU

Results and Challenges Studying the Health Experience of U.S. Vegetarians - Prof. Dr. Gary E. Fraser
https://youtu.be/9ya7gB-AF3o

Who's really using up the water in the American West?
https://youtu.be/f0gN1x6sVTc

Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet | NYT Opinion
https://youtu.be/kOcLyyVyb6o

Why scientists believe meat has dire consequences for the planet
https://youtu.be/qpolaxjhxJw

Sir David Attenborough’s Planet Earth III - "We must now look at the world through a new lens"
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/planet-earth-3-sir-david-attenborough

WRITTEN:

Dhruv's excellent fact checking of me and Dr. Yeo:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YdA0FVfGO2Q8TePxUqpRKPs3u3msAM0cvBfbwc7Ubjs/edit?usp=sharing

Ancel Keys TIME Magazine cover story:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PD1b_PQeFFq3GNpa6pbCHsQiyxIH3X_f/view?usp=sharing

Ancel Keys: The legacy of a giant in physiology, nutrition, and public health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33496369/

FACTORS OF RISK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE – SIX YEAR FOLLOW-UP EXPERIENCE, THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/document/factors-of-risk-in-the-development-of-coronary-heart-disease-six-year-follow-up-experience-the-framingham-study/

Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors
https://www.bmj.com/content/328/7455/1519

The Seven Countries Study: The first study to relate diet with cardiovascular disease
https://www.sevencountriesstudy.com/

ON THE TRAIL OF HEART ATTACKS IN SEVEN COUNTRIES
By Henry Blackburn
https://sph.umn.edu/site/docs/epi/SPH%20Seven%20Countries%20Study.pdf

Adventist Health Study-2 Publication Database
https://adventisthealthstudy.org/researchers/scientific-publications/adventist-health-study-2-publication-database

CAMBRIDGE ZERO
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridgezero

Plant-Based Cambridge
https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/organisation/22072/

The North-East-South gradient of coronary heart disease mortality and case fatality rates in France is consistent with a similar gradient in risk factor clusters
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10959938/

Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-industry-public-relations-messaging-machine

BOOKS:

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
https://www.amazon.com/Not-End-World-Generation-Sustainable/dp/B0C5JSZ6H9/ref=sr_1_1

Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
https://www.amazon.com/Doubt-Their-Product-Industrys-Threatens/dp/019530067X

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_2/131-3404613-1075803

The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Doubt-Money-Science-Deception/dp/0190922664/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_1/131-3404613-1075803

0:00 Plant-Based Cambridge & Chris MacAskill intro
2:27 How scientists figured out climate change was human-caused & industry response
10:06 Worst offenders in current food production
15:15 How epidemiologists figured out smoking was bad & industry response
22:03 How we figured out which dietary patterns are healthy
37:40 Q&A - Best meat alternatives?
39:20 Is a 100% vegan diet best?
41:37 Is plant-based eating globally accessible?
45:14 Why are fish bad? PFAS