Please see my post here: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post1041258-10.html
And here: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post1035130-34.html

These present my position on healing and list many of the authors who have influenced me.

I also like Dr. Michael Greger. He has all the evidence one could want. See here: http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/plant-based-diets/

"The convergence of evidence suggests that an affordable plant-based diet can help prevent and even reverse many of the top killers in the Western world..."

"This is in part because plant foods contain anti-aging, anti-cancer antioxidants (on average 64 times more than animal foods, see also here, here, here, here, here, here), fiber, and phytochemicals, which in some cases can even help repair DNA damage..."

"Eating meat and other animal products is associated with weight gain (even after controlling for calories), a shortened lifespan, and other negative effects (such as premature breast development of young girls). Arachidonic acid in chicken and eggs may cause inflammation, increasing one’s risk for a variety of disorders including mood disturbances thought due to inflammation of the brain. On the other hand, many plant foods (especially potassium-rich foods) appear to reduce inflammation..."

Also you can google "evidence for plant based diet". Here is one study near the top of the list:

Nutritional Update for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662288/

Here is a major study, the Cornell-China-Oxford project, which was undertaken to explore the effects of diet on health in China: http://web.archive.org/web/200902232.../ChinaProject/

A quote from the Results page of that site:
"A variety of specific disease, nutrient and biomarker associations have been investigated. Virtually all support the idea that nutrients usually present in plant based foods minimize the occurrence of chronic degenerative diseases."

Probably the most influential health information that I have read is from the book The China Study that T. Colin Campbell wrote about this study (although the book is much more than just describing that one project). I highly encourage everyone to read it. I will try to come up with a list of some of the other major studies listed in the books that I have read.

Please let us know why you believe that eating an animal based diet is superior to a plant based one.

I hope we can all heal. Let's get to it. I have to drop the junk food.
Ron