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Michael Greger

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

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  • Aygul Shorokhovahas quoted3 years ago
    Now, however, we know that as soon as we stop eating an artery-clogging diet, our bodies can start healing themselves, in many cases opening up arteries without drugs or surgery.
  • Alena Volkovahas quoted5 years ago
    The U.S. health care system runs on a fee-for-service model in which doctors get paid for the pills and procedures they prescribe, rewarding quantity over quality. We don’t get reimbursed for time spent counseling our patients about the benefits of healthy eating. If doctors were instead paid for performance, there would be a financial incentive to treat the lifestyle causes of disease.
  • Galina Ivanovahas quoted3 years ago
    human diseases arise from the animal kingdom.
  • Nolla Octenjakhas quoted3 years ago
    This disparity between prevention and mere mitigation of suffering could be a metaphor for modern medicine. A doctor a day may keep the apples away.
  • Nolla Octenjakhas quoted3 years ago
    ut all my work online—thus, NutritionFacts.org was born. I can now reach more
  • Luis Ontiveros Valdezhas quoted3 years ago
    This finding suggests that atherosclerosis may not just start as a nutritional disease of childhood but one during pregnancy
  • Luis Ontiveros Valdezhas quoted3 years ago
    Overall, the researchers found no protective benefit for overall mortality, heart disease mortality, sudden cardiac death, heart attack, or stroke.

    Fish oil

  • Luis Ontiveros Valdezhas quoted3 years ago
    turns out that the nutritional content didn’t differ much from what Americans normally eat.48 If we continue to eat as though we’re having our last meals, eventually they will be.
  • Aygul Shorokhovahas quoted3 years ago
    When the Guidelines tell you to eat less added sugar, calories, cholesterol, saturated fat, sodium, and trans fat, that’s code for eat less junk food, less meat, less dairy, fewer eggs, and fewer processed foods.
  • Aygul Shorokhovahas quoted3 years ago
    The healthiest diet is one that maximizes the intake of whole plant foods and minimizes the intake of animal-based foods and processed junk.
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