Joel Fuhrman
Joel Fuhrman | |
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Family physician, author | |
Known for | Nutritarian diet, ANDI, micronutrient-rich diet |
Notable work | Eat to Live; The End of Diabetes; Eat for Health: Lose Weight; Keep It Off and Look Younger; Live Longer. |
Spouse | Lisa |
Children | Sean |
Website | drfuhrman.com |
Joel Fuhrman (born December 2, 1953) is an American
Life and career
Fuhrman was born in
Diet and health
Nutritarian diet
Fuhrman has advocated eating at least one pound of raw
Furhman's Nutritarian diet excludes dairy and meat for six weeks, but after this period a small amount of chicken and fish can be eaten.[15] Fuhrman also allows a limited amount of low-fat dairy products, olive oil and refined carbohydrates on the diet after six weeks.[14] If animal products are not added back into the diet, Furhman recommends vitamin B12, vitamin D and omega 3 supplements.[14] On the Nutritarian diet, dairy products, eggs and fish are to make up less than 10% of calories whilst legumes make between 10% and 40% and raw and cooked vegetables make between 30% and 60% of calories.[2]
Nutrient density
Fuhrman popularized the notion of nutrient density in what he calls the Health Equation: Health = Nutrients/Calories (abbreviated as H = N/C).[4] Peter Lipson, a physician and writer on alternative medicine, has been heavily critical of Fuhrman's health equation, writing that since its terms cannot be quantified, it is "nothing more than a parlor trick".[16] Fuhrman created what he calls the "Aggregate Nutrient Density Index" or ANDI, a ranking of foods based on his claims of micronutrient concentration and kale is at the top of this list.[4] Whole Foods began using the scores as a marketing project and reported that the sales of high scoring foods "skyrocketed".[4]
Reception
Fuhrman has heavily marketed his products and his infomercials have "become a staple during the self-improvement bloc of PBS pledge drives."[4] In the October 2012 edition of Men's Journal, Mark Adams stated that Fuhrman "preaches something closer to fruitarianism or Christian Science than to conventional medical wisdom".[4] Adams also reported that Fuhrman believes that the flu vaccine "isn't effective at all".[4] David Gorski has commented that Fuhrman has promoted a vitalistic view of food and the pseudoscientific idea of detoxification.[17]
Dietitian Carolyn Williams has described Fuhrman's Nutritarian diet as a fad diet. According to Williams "This can be helpful for people who feel stuck in their weight loss journey and want to totally reset or detox their diet following a holiday or vacation. Although this diet is marketed as an eating pattern, it is essentially a fad diet. Those who do try this diet should go into it knowing that it is not sustainable for everyone long-term, and is only a temporary quick fix to lose weight."[18]
Harriet Hall, a founder of Science-Based Medicine, a website owned and operated by the New England Skeptical Society,[19] reviewed Fuhrman's Nutritarian diet and commented that he tends to incorrectly assume association studies show causation and that his diet has not been tested in controlled trials. Hall stated that "Fuhrman makes extraordinary claims for the Nutritarian diet, but extraordinary claims must be supported by extraordinary evidence, and the evidence he presents is far from compelling."[20]
Books
- Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease (1995)
- Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (2003)
- Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right (2006)
- Eat for Health: Lose Weight, Keep It off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2008)
- The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes (2012)
- Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free (2013)
- The End of Dieting: How to Live for Life (2014)
- The End of Heart Disease: the eat to live plan to prevent and reverse heart disease (2016)
- Eat to Live Quick and Easy Cookbook: 131 Delicious Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health (2017)
- Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It (2017)
- Eat for Life: The Breakthrough Nutrient-Rich Program for Longevity, Disease Reversal, and Sustained Weight Loss (2020)
- Transformation 20 - Blood Pressure and Cholesterol (2???)
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-61069-760-6.
- ^ a b "Nutritarian Diet". health.usnews.com. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
- ^ Brown, Douglas (5 June 2010). "Nutrition ambitions: "Nutritarian" diet is easy; just try to eat a rainbow". The Denver Post. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Adams, Mark (Oct 2012). "Joel Fuhrman: The doctor is out there". Men's Journal. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
- ^ Fuhrman, Joel (2016). The End of Heart Disease. Description & arrow-searchable preview. HarperOne. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ Gluck, Robert (2014). "Jewish author of 'Eat to Live' dishes on health care, nutrition, disease prevention". Jewish News Syndicate. Archived from the original on 2022-02-23.
- ^ "World Professional Figure Skating Championships (Jaca, Spain)". Retrieved 19 Dec 2012.
- ^ "Probiotics and the immune system: An interview with Joel Fuhrman, M.D." Nutrition Health Review. 108 (Winter): 2. 2011.
- ^ a b c d Schweitzer, Lisa. "Eat to Live Diet: Review". WebMD. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
- ^ "What Foods Are Not Allowed on Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live Diet?". healthyeating.sfgate.com. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
- ^ Lipson, Peter (9 September 2010). "Your disease, your fault". Science-Based Medicine. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ^ Gorski, David (2015). ""America's Quack" strikes back". Science-Based Medicine. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ Williams, Carolyn (2018). "Does the Nutritarian Diet Really Live Up to Its Hype?". Cooking Light. Archived from the original on 2022-12-02. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ About this website at Science-Based Medicine
- ^ Hall, Harriet. (2022). "Eat for Life: Joel Fuhrman’s Nutritarian Diet". Science-Based Medicine. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
External links
- Official website
- Joel Fuhrman at IMDb