

(married to daughter Jane) work within the plant-based movement. In addition, daughter-in-law Anne Bingham, MD (married to son Ted), daughter-in-law Jill Kolasinski (married to son Rip), and son- in-law Brian Hart, M.Ed. She is also a co-author of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook and an active health educator. Rip Esselstyn has helped thousands of people to regain their health and thrive without surgery or spending loads of money. As well, Jane Esselstyn RN, Ann and Essy’s daughter, created the recipes for many of these books. His books include The Engine 2 Diet, Plant-Strong, The Seven Day Rescue, and The Engine 2 Cookbook, some of which spent time on the NY Times Bestseller list.

Rip Esselstyn, Ann and Essy’s oldest son, launched The Engine 2 Diet movement in 2000. By the late 1990s, other family members joined the fight. She is a true force for change within the plant-based movement.Īs a result of Ann and Essy’s inspiring work, all twenty members of the Esselstyn family (four children, their spouses, and ten grandchildren), ages four to eighty four, are plant-based. She created all the recipes for the Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease book and is the co-author of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook. Esselstyn’s expertise, hosting him at the White House in the 1960s to discuss the creation of the Medicare system.Īnn’s recipes, cooking demonstrations, and seminars on shopping and label reading, among other topics, have become the backbone of Dr. While he was a successful surgeon, his true passion was for the early development of health centers in rural parts of the nation. Barney’s pioneering work helped establish a number of surgical techniques which are now considered standard in the treatment of tumor removal.Įssy’s father was also a celebrated doctor of national renown. He went on to global recognition as a champion of the use of the more conservative breast lumpectomy. George’s son (Ann’s father), George “Barney” Crile, followed in his father’s footsteps and also became a surgeon. He went on to help found the Cleveland Clinic in 1921. Rip Esselstyn: As you said, I’ve been after this for 33-plus years, and it all started back in Cleveland, Ohio with my father and his really ground-breaking revolutionary research at the famed Cleveland Clinic going back to 1984. He contributed to other procedures, such as neck dissection and designed a small hemostatic forceps which bears his name: the Crile clamp. Crile is formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion. Ann’s grandfather, George Crile, was a farm boy who made his way to Wooster Medical College, graduating in 1887.
