Ana M Negrón, MD.

03/28/2022

Presentación en español acerca de cómo recobrar la salud a través de nuestra alimentación ancestral.

02/14/2022

https://www.telemundo51.com/local/comida-como-cura-el-documental/2268008/

¿Existe una dieta que pueda prevenir y sanar enfermedades crónicas? La reportera investigativa Myriam Masihy busca respuestas y cuenta su batalla contra una enfermedad crónica.

01/09/2021

Mask up, keep distance, wash hands, and get the vaccine when your turn comes.

10/07/2020

Birthday present

Scientific research reveals without a doubt that eating animals is not good for us, for our health, or the planet. But, what kind of research brings us evidence that killing animals is wrong?

I began this vegan journey over thirty years ago when I saw myself embedded in the world around me. A well of emotions fed my soul’s decision.

At first my loud and unapologetic judgements were mocked and criticized. The reactions were unexpected and unpleasant, but the rejection was easy to take—I was fueled by justified anger.

Soon another experience visited me. I was out of bounds with my medical colleagues—accused of being unprofessional not based in evidence. Already stacked against me were being Latina woman mother—I could only keep a place among my brethren advancing their values.

This meant I sanitized my declamation and cleared it of all emotion—learned to use science as a shield. I mastered the language of scientific evidence.

Moving away from showing my true self, I even heard myself denouncing the term veganism in favor of the more clinical Whole Foods Plant Based. This descriptive phrase facilitated a belief that I might be able to command respect while advocating for a diet without animals.

I retreated into the proverbial closet reserved for those not accepted by society and forced to live a double life.

When asked, “So, do you advocate veganism?”, feeling judged I wrapped tight in my white shell coat, turned cynical, and would say something like ‘you can call yourself vegan eating French fries and drinking Coca Cola’. After which I always felt a deep embarrassing painful sadness.

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Last night I spoke to a friend. She possesses deep courage, enormous conviction, and crystal clear clarity. Feminism is vegan she said. For the first time in a long time, my soul did not feel timid. Each living being has one unalienable right and that is to live life on their own terms.

Dancing around this elephant in our room, looking to convince ourselves that eating animals is bad because it hurts our health—accepting the untold violence perpetrated on mostly females of these species. This is wrong, a betrayal, and our souls know it.

What right do we have to steal and use another sentient being? We need to gaze again into each other’s eyes and let ourselves feel. We need to stop searching for reasons and simply show love and respect to one another. Me first.

08/23/2020

Check out the recording of this PCRM hosted event of 8/22/20:
Mas Plantas, Mas Salud en español

03/29/2020

HEALTH CARE IS OUR JOB by Ana M. Negrón, MD

A diet based on eating plants—grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, with a few nuts and seeds—protects us from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and many cancers. Eating a plant-food diet is naturally low in fat, can arrest disease, and even reverse it! Prescriptions address symptoms—our diet works on the root cause.

Eating plants is far more nutritious than eating the animal (cow, chicken, or fish) who already benefited from the plants they ate. Plant foods are anti-inflammatory, are loaded with nutrients, are the only source of phyto-chemicals, feed our beneficial intestinal bacteria, and help repair damage done by free radicals. In fact plants are the optimal food for our species.

Meat, eggs, and cheese are not the natural foods of humans—they make us sick.

Along with not smoking, keeping our bodies in motion, and aiming for a restorative sleep without pills every night, the way we choose to eat is core to health care.

Health insurance is a lifeline to the medical system—for when we need life sustaining medications, fall suddenly sick, need to fix a broken bone, require emergency services, or when all else failed to keep us healthy.

Health depends on great nutrition, exercise, and sleep. It also depends on having shelter, food, and a basic income. In other words, health care is our job.

But, how can people do their job when we have abandoned them and continue to keep them from meeting these very basic needs?

03/25/2020

Genes and Us

Among their many roles, genes carry encoded messages for health and disease. Epigenetic research shows that the genes that win are the ones we feed. As some have said, our family tree loads the gun, but we pull the trigger.

The corona virus or COVID-19 pandemic is catching us in the midst of our own public health epidemic—one of rising rates of obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, making heart attacks the leading cause of death in this country.

These debilitating conditions compromise the immune system making the host more vulnerable to deal with threats, like the one we face today.

Chronic diseases have blossomed amidst a plethora of food that was never central to our existence. Meats, cheese, eggs, and extracted ingredients (flour, sugar, oil)—are not natural human food. Much like disease models in research laboratories where animals are on purpose made sick with food that is not of their species, humans have become sick on meat and dairy.

Challenges never cease—the key is in how we respond. The current pandemic is a crisis of epic proportions, but also perhaps a crisis of opportunities. We could reevaluate the medical paradigm of treating symptoms. Instead we might transition to a model where we promote the public’s health with excellent nutrition, regular exercise, restorative sleep, reduced stress, and a concern for each other, including the stranger we never met.

These are the pillars of health tested over hundreds of years and adopted by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. The Blue Zones of the world are examples of how a mostly whole foods plant diet low in fat yields longer lives without disabilities.

Let us focus on achieving the highest levels possible of health and immune competence, for each individual—it is within our power to do so. For over fifteen years my patients have enjoyed cooking with me an anti-inflammatory diet of whole plants low in fat, affordable, nutritious, delicious, and above all healing—fruits, legumes, vegetables, and whole grains.

We are eating the food of our species and enjoying its benefits.

10/22/2019

I am just returning from a Food and Climate Forum in México City. What most impressed me is not the profound understanding of the connection between climate and our meat and dairy diet, but that almost every person with whom I spoke had already changed their eating behavior and were advocating for it in their circle of family, friends, and coworkers. Such sense of responsibility in action is a model for every individual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9KgO7K7jjk

10/04/2019

Many physicians smoke, drink, eat junk food, love meat and cheese, or follow a low carb diet.
Some health professionals never floss, exercise, wear seatbelts, or get vaccinated,
We must understand that these practices reflect personal opinions and preferences—
they are not recommendations based on established scientific evidence.
Beware of anyone who gives you good news about your bad habits—
do they wish you health or do they want your attention?

05/29/2019

Come to the screening of Code Blue: Redefining the Practice of Medicine - a documentary showing one day only in Phoenixville's The Colonial this Saturday June 1st at 1:30. Stay for a discussion with Drs. Saray Stancic and Ana M Negrón.

04/10/2019

Macro Magic - Ana M. Negron, MD
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFIjpMR3DxvnZqujibs-ydDVRCIeQSvR/view

01/01/2019

We The People
Founded in 1887, “The mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.” Its budget for medical research is $30.1 billion annually.

The NIH is comprised of 27 institutes: National Cancer Institute, National Eye Institute, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Library of Medicine.

Not one of its institutes is dedicated to the research of nutritional patterns that support optimal human health.
While the NIH has been funding research on diseases of affluence—common in people following the western eating pattern and lifestyle—it has willfully ignored the powerful socioeconomic forces that have brought us to this predicament of epidemic obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

As result of this reductionistic approach to health research, 78 million adults and 12 million children in the U.S. have ended up obese sharing the risk of even more chronic illness.

Power Is Not Granted—It Must Seized In A Leap Of Faith.

We the people can enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability—by simply revising our current eating pattern and lifestyle. We and no one else can do this for us. And as we stop smoking and make better food choices for ourselves (less or no animal meats and dairy, no fast food or oil, more whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables), we make sure that our community pantry, shelter, and place of worship also serve excellent heath supporting food to the less fortunate among us. We and no one else can do this for us.

12/27/2018

A New Year’s Resolution worth keeping—EAT SUSTAINABLY

Most climate scientists agree that our accelerated global warming is linked to human activity. They warn that we must reduce the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide; also Chlorofluorocarbons and Ozone are greenhouse gases. In excess, they let more sun rays in than out of our atmosphere—net warming the planet.

Excessive production of greenhouse gases has shifted the cooling:warming balance of the planet to the net increase in temperature we experience today. Think of a garden greenhouse—its glass ceiling allows trapping of enough heat to foster growing vegetables even in the dead of winter.

In 2012, the United States consumed 18.5 million barrels of oil per day or nearly 20% of the whole world's daily oil consumption. Regarding CO2 emissions, everyone lives downstream.

Beginning today:
1. Transition to a a plant based diet. Cows are one of the biggest methane producers.
2. Eat organic whenever possible, avoid nitrous oxide release in chemical agriculture.
3. Drive and fly less; use public transportation, carpool, walk, or ride a bike.
4. Reduce, reuse, and recycle—emphasis on reduce.
5. Plant a tree—they absorb carbon dioxide and keep it out of the atmosphere.
6. Use less electricity, support air, solar, and geothermal energy.

WORLDWATCH 2009 “...the life cycle and supply chain of domesticated animals raised for food have been vastly underestimated as a source of GHGs (greenhouse gases), and in fact account for at least half of all human-caused GHGs.”

How can we avoid our lifestyle—specifically our meat and dairy centered diet—and still lower carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions?

The carbon dioxide generated in transportation of animals across the land, the long lasting nitrous oxide gas released in chemically managed agribusiness, and the many tons of methane given off by ruminants are all courtesy of our diet.

Personally curbing greenhouse gas emissions is not a personal choice—it is our personal responsibility.

12/24/2018

Last Minute Thoughts for the Holidays

1. It is your home, anyone with love for you would want to respect your values when they visit.

2. Meat eaters must learn that bringing meat and cheese into vegan homes is offensive. It may be hard for some meat eaters to understand this, because a dish without meat would not offend them. Their values are not compromised if you bring a meatless dish to their event. However, they might understand this comparison: to bring alcohol into a dry home or to insist on smoking in a non-smoker’s home is insulting and disrespectful.

3. I will not allow any animal product inside my home—in past years this offended some, but I stayed firm. I tried to serve plant based foods that were delicious and in some way familiar to my guests—a party is not the best time for an education session.

4. Announce to unfamiliar guests and participating family that you are hosting a Plant Based Event. When people insist on bringing something—I am sure to suggest a simple item such as fruit, baked sweet potatoes, sparkling water, or humus. If anyone wants to bring an ethnic dish, I tell them it must be without meat, chicken, fish, honey, dairy, yogurt, or cheese and suggest online recipe sites—such as Master Plants Cookbook and others.

5. You are in no way obligated to offer objectionable entertainment—in the form of food, drink, drugs, s*x, or any other. When guests leave your house, they can engage in whatever activity they want.

6. When power and authority are used to spread love—it may not be immediately understood, but will not go unnoticed. As you honor your values rather than betray them, you feel greater peace.

11/28/2018

Interview with a plant-based medical doctor to find out why she promotes this lifestyle.

08/19/2018

Eating Whole Foods is Easier than Counting Calories: understanding calorie density.

Take a whole food such as broccoli, cauliflower, or cabbage—two heaping cups full pack about one hundred (100 calories), but add or cook any of them in a tablespoon of oil (120 calories) and you have essentially doubled the calories (100 + 120 = 220 calories!) without appreciably altering volume—it is still two cups of food.

Oil of any kind is one-hundred percent (100%) fat—with nothing left of the food from where it was extracted—olives, corn, seeds, or other grains. Oil (any oil), at one hundred and twenty calories per tablespoon, is the most calorie dense ingredient on the planet. The same fate as above could be said for adding oil to other whole foods such as rice, beans, or potatoes.

Back to the title claim—to know whole plant foods is to know the most nutrient dense source of calories—foods with the most nutrients per pound. Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, beans, oats, quinoa, papaya, mango—chuck full of nutrients and also fiber, water, vitamins, minerals, and other phytochemicals. They allow us to fill our stomachs with enough food to help us feel satiated, all without counting calories.

Factory bagged, boxed, bottled, and wrapped convenience mystery foods—force us to read their labels and micromanage our intake.

Except for the very oily calorie dense nuts, seeds, and avocados, whole plants can be consumed with abandon—lending truth to the claim that eating whole foods is easier than counting calories.

06/27/2018

The Chester County Food Bank's Fresh2You and local doctors support the community with prescriptions for free produce.

03/17/2018

I am pleased to be reaching so many of you. Gracias.