{"id":14925,"date":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/05\/01\/veggies-in-cattle-country-leading-texas-hospital-now-promoting-plant-based-diet\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","slug":"veggies-in-cattle-country-leading-texas-hospital-now-promoting-plant-based-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/05\/01\/veggies-in-cattle-country-leading-texas-hospital-now-promoting-plant-based-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Veggies In Cattle Country: Leading Texas Hospital Now Promoting Plant-Based Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fronterasdesk.org\/content\/10290\/veggies-cattle-country-leading-texas-hospital-now-promoting-plant-based-diet\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIDLAND, TEXAS, april 28, 2016 (Fronteras Desk): A leading hospital in Texas is making a name for itself by taking on the ranching industry, an iconic fixture in the history of the Lone Star State. The hospital is now promoting a plant-based diet rich in vegetables and whole grains for patients and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Nurturing cattle, sending them to the feedlot and then onto the slaughterhouse is a part of the culture here, burnished into a big part of what makes Texas, Texas. Now, Midland Memorial Hospital, a major medical player in the heart of cattle country, has become the first in the state to buck that culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided to embark on offering plant-based meals first for the patients as a prescribed diet,&#8221; cardiac surgeon Dr. Staton Awtrey said. &#8220;And then to roll that out and offer that to staff and visitors.&#8221; &#8220;They might change their diet to not have a heart attack. But they have all these collateral benefits they never anticipated,&#8221; Awtrey said. Awtrey also claimed a plant-based diet will mitigate or reverse and ultimately cure arthritis, diabetes and hypertension. Awtrey said plant-based food promotes weight loss and the ability to get off certain kinds of medications.<\/p>\n<p>[The full article includes an entertaining audio interview with a Texan fully converted to a vegetarian diet.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MIDLAND, TEXAS, april 28, 2016 (Fronteras Desk): A leading hospital in Texas is making a name for itself by,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}