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I have personally followed a whole food, plant-based diet for the last two decades and have over time gotten most of my family to follow along most of the time.  I have helped many patients improve and sometimes reverse their diabetes, atherosclerosis, arthritis, cancers and mood disorders by adopting an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, high fiber, high nutrition density, low calorie density, whole food, plant based diet.
As the founding Program Director for the DeTar/Texas A&M Family Medicine Residency program, I train 24 soon to be Board Certified Family Medicine specialists to understand the primacy of patient lifestyle choices in managing and reversing the majority of ailments that plague Americans today. 

Dr. Bandana Chawla is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She graduated from UT Southwestern Medical School and completed her residency training at the Texas Medical Center. She has been practicing as an internist in the Houston area for over 20 years. Over the years she has incorporated the tenets of Lifestyle Medicine (LM) into her practice and has seen her patients lose weight, improve their diabetes and several other health conditions. To build on this success, she co-created lifestyledocs.com practice which focuses on eating the right types of food, being fit, reducing stress, and connecting more to achieve holistic wellness. She is also the co-founder of Peaceful Planet Foundation, 501c3 nonprofit, which fosters Peace, Health and Wellness in Houston and the surrounding communities.

Dr. Mary Washington has practiced in Houston for 25 years. BC in Internal Medicine and Nephrology for 15+ years. She became frustrated with this style of practice and left her group in 2016 to develop the Reversing Medical Disease Clinic. With her RMD program , the first year she has been able to improve her clients kidney function, safely help clients control BP without medications and even cured some of their diabetes which is more than she has done as a 25 year ‘legalized drug pusher’. “I am tired of placing people on dialysis machines”…says Dr. Washington.

I am excited to have the opportunity to be listed as a plant based doc after completing the Plant Based Certification Course by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. I have found that often nutrition impacts disease symptoms quite often and I see this even more so as a doctor that treat common gynecologic conditions that are often influenced by diet. I love working with patients to help this discover the healing nature of their own bodies when provided with the correct building blocks in proper nutrition.

Families pass on diseases more effectively through recipes than through genes.

I have been subspecializing in this topic for the past few years.

Lifestyle diseases can be challenged (HBP, CHD, Over Weight, Diabetes) by looking at new ways to eat

Choose your foods wisely to invest in your long term health because the food you eat can be either the safest most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.