Sarah Keating, M.D.: Good Nutrition for Life
 Sarah Keating, M.D., spends most of her day in a laboratory in
the high-risk pregnancy unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
As a perinatal pathologist, Dr. Keating aims to determine why some
pregnancies go wrong so that they can go right in the future. She
is a medical detective—an expert other doctors turn to for
answers.
Although her behind-the-scenes work doesn’t allow
her the opportunity many doctors have to counsel patients on health
and nutrition, Dr. Keating finds other ways to speak out about
the benefits of healthy eating.
Dr. Keating has followed a vegetarian
diet for 16 years and removed all animal products from her diet
over two years ago. “I
felt incredibly full of energy,” Dr. Keating said of her
transition to a vegan diet shortly before her 50th birthday. “It
was wonderful to turn 50 feeling the healthiest I’ve ever
felt.”
During the several years Dr. Keating has been a member
of PCRM, she has written many letters to the editor responding
to articles about health in Canadian newspapers. “There is
so much misinformation out there,” Dr. Keating said. “People
still believe that chicken is a health food.” A letter from
Dr. Keating that appeared in the Toronto Star responded
to the findings of the Women’s Health Initiative study, which
some people misinterpreted as proof that low-fat diets don’t
reduce one’s
risk of cancer. Dr. Keating reminded readers that the study participants
still ate animal products full of cholesterol and saturated fat
and that “only truly significant changes to our eating habits
can reduce our risk of disease.”
Dr. Keating is also on the
board of the Toronto Vegetarian Association. The group works to
inspire people to adopt a healthier, greener lifestyle by providing
an informative Web site (www.veg.ca), maintaining a resource center
with educational material, and attending wellness conferences.
Dr. Keating would also like to see more nutrition training for
doctors. “Doctors are often asked for advice about nutrition
even if they don’t know what the latest studies are saying,” Dr.
Keating said. “They need to have up-to-date information based
on the latest scientific research because the information we have
about nutrition is advancing so quickly.”
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