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Michael Greger

Geboren: October 25, 1972 – Miami, Florida, United States

Michael Greger is an American physician, nutrition researcher, and public health advocate focused on evidence-based nutrition and plant-based diets. He is best known for founding NutritionFacts.org and writing the bestselling books How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age, helping popularize nutrition science for broad audiences.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Michael Greger’s public career took shape at the crossroads of medicine, agriculture, and preventive health. A graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine, he trained as a physician and later became a founding member and fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. The formative story he has most often attached to that career reaches back to childhood: seeing his grandmother, Frances Greger, sent home in a wheelchair with end-stage heart disease and then regain function through intensive diet and lifestyle change. That experience became both a personal turning point and, later, the emotional origin story behind NutritionFacts.org. ((https://nutritionfacts.org/about/?utm_source=openai))

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For me, it’s always just been about getting this potentially life-changing, life-saving information into as many people’s hands as possible
-Welcome to NutritionFacts.org!
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Here is a review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods
-What Should We Eat?
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Indeed, the foods with the most nutrition just so happen to be the foods that cause the lowest greenhouse gas emissions
-Eating to Fight the Climate Crisis
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There is massive environmental contamination from the poultry industry
-Reducing Arsenic in Chicken and Rice
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I just want to do for everyone’s family what Pritikin did for my family
-Dr. Greger on Plant-Based Athletes, the Best Way to Cook Veggies, and More
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It doesn’t matter what I eat; all that matters is what the science shows
-There Was No Book… Until Now!
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The only reason there are essential amino acids in a steak is because the cow ate them all from plants
-Cutting the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods
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Speeding up this process is one of the reasons I started NutritionFacts.org
-Diabetes Associations Recognize Plant-Based Diets
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The bottom line is that it’s not worth risking the lives of millions of people for the sake of cheaper chicken
-Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
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The best way to prevent a massive heart attack, to prevent atherosclerosis, is to start at step number one—blocking the buildup of cholesterol
-Blocking the First Step of Heart Disease

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