{"id":1048,"date":"2010-10-05T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2010-10-04T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:59:24","slug":"bill-clintons-plant-based-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/bill-clintons-plant-based-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton&#8217;s Plant-Based Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/us\/2010\/09\/21\/intv.clinton.blitzer.weight.loss.cnn?iref=allsearch\">here<\/a> to see Bill Clinton speak with Wolf Blitzer about adopting a plant-based diet after his bypass surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I went on essentially a plant-based diet.  I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit, I drink a protein supplement every morning &#8211; no dairy &#8211; I drink almond milk mixed in with fruit and a protein powder, so I get the protein for the day when I start the day out, and it changed my whole metabolism and I lost 24 pounds [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I did all this research, and I saw that 82 percent of the people since 1986 who have gone on a plant-base, no dairy, no meat of any kind, no chicken, no turkey &#8211; I eat very little fish, once in a while I&#8217;ll have a little fish &#8211; if you can do it, 82 percent of people have begun to heal themselves<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to see Bill Clinton speak with Wolf Blitzer about adopting a plant-based diet after his bypass surgery. Clinton says: I went on essentially a plant-based diet. I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit, I drink a protein supplement every morning &#8211; no dairy &#8211; I drink almond milk mixed in with fruit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}