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    Bill Clinton: poster child for plant-based diet

    Bill Clinton, once famous for his larger-than-life appetite, is now the poster child for a vegan lifestyle.

    Back in the 1990s, the former president was known--and even mocked--for his fast-food cravings. In a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the late Phil Hartman, playing Clinton, is shown jogging three blocks to McDonald's to mix it up with the people -- and sample all of their lunches. You can see the hilarious sketch here.

    But Bill is no longer a burger lover: After a quadruple bypass in 2004 and a follow-up procedure last year to insert two stents to open up veins from the surgery, Clinton has dramatically changed his ways. As he discussed with Yahoo! News last year, he is now vegan.


    Clinton first dropped red meat to shed weight for his daughter Chelsea's wedding. The president referenced a study that people with heart disease who switched their eating habits eventually saw their bodies healed. The elder statesman, who celebrates his 65th birthday on Friday, told Yahoo! News that he is taking his diet and health seriously so as to ensure that he'll be around to enjoy his future grandchildren.

    The lean leader's new diet is made up mainly of plants, vegetables, and beans. As he revealed to Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN earlier this week, he stays away from dairy, meat, and fish, and keeps his menu largely plant-based.

    Still, the former president has his occasional dietary weaknesses. As he told Dr. Gupta, at Thanksgiving he allows himself "one bite of turkey."

     

    1,571 comments

    • Chris  •  9 mths ago
      I tried to get a list of foods for Bill Clinton's Diet & I just got taken from one site to another.....can anyone help me?
      • hannah 8 mths ago
        http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/ Just type in "Vegan recipes" into google and you'll find tons.
    • Alex K  •  9 mths ago
      If Clinton is a "poster child", does that make Monica a "poster child" molester?
    • LACajun  •  9 mths ago
      Let's all have a Monica sandwlch today
    • Cuddy  •  9 mths ago
      After Perdue and Tyson bought him off and made Arkansas the pollution capital of the U.S., this phony turns vegan. Thnaks for dumping all that chicken poop into the White River, jerk.
    • Unshriven  •  9 mths ago
      I'm taking up a collection to hire Paula Dean as George W Bush's personal chef. Her fried butter sandwiches with goose fat gravy should hurry him along to judgement..
      • Cuddy 9 mths ago
        My judgement on you is that you're an idiot. Hope Slick Willy leaves his dna on your dress, jerk.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Bill is a class act, but plants have a life force too, think about that when you chomp down on a tomato fetus you sick *&^$. I don't eat animals my &^#.
    • c2farr  •  9 mths ago
      For Slick Wilkee "MeMe" Rethuglican in Sheep skin Clinton, a plant based diet has nothing to do with preventing the torture of factory farmed animals and EVERYTHING to do with MISTER Selfish MeMe Wilkee Clinton getting a temporary reprieve from his evil GOD imposing the death penalty on him.

      Everyone says how brilliant MeMe is. I ask, what quote of the brilliant one do you remember...Hows aboot "I did NOT have sex with that woman." and "I feel your pain." Outside of those two, what did Mister Brilliant MeMe Rhodes Scholar say that was so gd brilliant?
    • michael  •  9 mths ago
      I miss Bill Clinton. Remember peace, remember prosperity, remember surpluses? Then W was appointed by the Supreme Court and it was down hill from there.
      • ads 9 mths ago
        I miss him, too. People can and will talk trash about him, but he was a good president.
      • Cuddy 9 mths ago
        Oh, ya, a womanizing liar is a great thing to have in the oval office. It was a majority of repubs that made him successful, not his own party.
    • JayDee  •  9 mths ago
      No wonder the "King" at BK has retired. You put him on the unemployment line Bill. Try not to choke on your watercress sandwich! Pass the whopper please!
    • Freddy  •  9 mths ago
      how many poster childs will clinton be for? he is the origional poster child for birth control
    • joe  •  9 mths ago
      I dont get angry because they dont want to eat meat - why do they throw a fit because I like steak?
      • Jose Enrique Gonzales 9 mths ago
        Same reason pro-life folks blow up abortion clinics I think. In their mind killing animals shouldn't be a choice we are freely allowed to make. I'm on the fence myself, it's far healthier to live on a calorie restricted, protein enhanced, vegan diet but at the same time the world is already overpopulated so who really wins if we all live forever?
    • Bootus McDoosh  •  9 mths ago
      Bill Clinton: Poster Child for politicians who should be in prison for deviant sexual behavior. Most notably, exposing himself to four (4) separate women, all of whom were villified by the left-leaning press. Anyone else would have gone to jail.
    • eshommie  •  9 mths ago
      Its easy not to worry about food when you can get your bee jays whenever you want. The rest of us have to resort to comfort eating...
    • Liberals are Invertebrate ...  •  9 mths ago
      Who cares!!?? Pass the pulled Pork Sandwich.
    • Ana  •  9 mths ago
      Clinton is doing too little too late. He had a bypass and bypasses substitute veins for arteries. Unfortunately veins are thin and weak and also much more prone to narrowing than veins.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
    • KenS  •  9 mths ago
      It was not the burgers that wrecked hi heart! It was Hillary and Monica!
    • Brittster  •  9 mths ago
      Let's see heah?
      Liberals blame Cows for creating Methane thus Global Warming.
      But
      We shouldn't eat beef because Animals are People too.
      So
      Cow herds will become enormous, they'll be wild because it doesn't pay to raise them. The Cow population will grow exponentially which means Predators population will grow likewise with the Bounty of Beef to eat. Pork will be everywhere. Chickens will root out the indigenous Bird populations. Fish will make a great come back but then, that means more Sharks. Far BIGGER than they are now with all the Grub swimming around.
      Are we SURE we want everyone to become a veggie eater? Hold on. Cows, Rabbits, Deer and such eats veggies too. We can build higher and stronger fences to guard against those, and the Mountain Lions and Wolves and Coyotes and Bears. Uh? On second thought?
      EAT MORE BEEF ; )
      .
      • Brittster 9 mths ago
        Good point LOL!!
        Great handle BTW. Glad your Mom didn't see you as a plague that had attacked her body. Anyway. At 53, you know things has changed to where I hardly recognize the Country I was born into. There's no longer any consequences for dumb decisions. What our Parents called DISCIPLINE, today's Parents call Child Abuse. And it's glaringly evident by the Kids their turning out. Strange.
    • MT  •  9 mths ago
      Interpol is still "looking" for him for that illegal bombing of Yugoslavia on 1999 without resolution of UN..... maybe he'll be healthy for jail....
    • Michael  •  9 mths ago
      I heard Monica got her own reality TV show...Dancing For Cigars
    • Michael  •  9 mths ago
      Labia, is the other white meat
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