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How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease Paperback – 27 December 2017

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Simple nutritional advice for beating the most common diseases and living longer.

"The primary determinant of our health and well-being is what we eat and how we live. In this extraordinary and empowering book, Dr. Michael Greger explains why. Highly recommended."
Dean Ornish, M.D., author of The Spectrum

Why rely on drugs and surgery to cure you of life-threatening disease when the right decisions can prevent you from falling ill to begin with?

How Not To Die gives effective, scientifically-proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers - heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes - revealing the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.

Based on the very latest scientific research, How Not To Die examines each of the most common diseases, chapter by chapter, to reveal what, how and why different foods affect us and how increasing our consumption of certain foods and avoiding others can dramatically reduce our risk of falling sick and even reverse the effects of disease.

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"Michael Greger shows people how to save their own lives." Rip Esselstyn, author of The Engine 2 Diet

"An absolute rhapsody of informational wisdom on how to achieve a life of health and longevity without disease." Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. M.D., author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

"The best book I've read on nutrition and diet." Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution

"How Not To Die is one of the most important books on health ever written." John Mackay, CEO of Whole Foods Markets

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Publisher : Pan (27 December 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 736 pages
ISBN-10 : 1509852506
ISBN-13 : 978-1509852505
Dimensions : 13 x 4.1 x 19.7 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 3,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 14 in Preventive Medicine (Books)
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This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented with proper nutrition. -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Dr Michael Greger reveals the foods that will help you live longer ― Daily Mail

This book brims with valuable insights ... Vegetarian or not, this book is a great way to improve your diet ― Financial Times

Dr Michael Greger presents the groundbreaking science on how simple plant-based food choices help us live healthier and happier lives -- Brian Wendel, Founder and President of Forks Over Knives

A new way of looking at nutrition and health. Michael Greger shows people how to save their own lives -- Rip Esselstyn, author of The Engine 2 Diet

How Not To Die shows how the right nutrition prevents disease and transforms our genes so we can live healthier, longer. Empowering, groundbreaking, transformative work -- Kathy Freston, author of Quantum Wellness and The Lean

The most interesting, groundbreaking and practical new research ... His work at NutritionFacts and in How Not To Die features the latest science on nutrition and health to show how to treat and prevent disease -- Joel Furhman, author of Eat to Live

Not only does Dr Michael Greger drop a metric f*ckton of evidence that a plant-based diet will save your damn life, he lays out the blueprint to make it happen ― Thug Kitchen

The primary determinant of our health and wellbeing is what we eat and how we live. Dr Michael Greger explains why -- Dean Ornish, MD, author of The Spectrum and Dr Dean Ornish's Program For Reversing Heart Disease

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Booksaremyblood

Living, not existing.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 June 2017

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Amazingly brilliant book. With three chronic diseases and a family history of heart attack and stroke on both sides, I was apprehensive about the book, but the reviews for it made me reconsider.
Despite all my health issues, I haven't felt so healthy for many years. It's all the food I love to eat, and have now reincorporated back into my life after trying Paleo (and getting sicker and sicker). Now I'm brimming with energy, smiling, and living, not just existing.
Best money I have ever spent.

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Cari Batenburg

If you only ever buy one book on how to improve your health...

Reviewed in Australia on 1 July 2019

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..this is the one to buy! Organised by disease or health problem 'type' such as "lung diseases", "heart disease", "diabetes" etc, the author and the enormous team of qualified volunteers take great care in doing critical meta-analyses of all current research between food, health, and disease. The information and findings are presented in an easily readable format, with all research properly referenced. I have also found that the author, Dr Michael Greger, is happy to update and amend the findings on the nutritionfacts.org website when more compelling evidence is found. Highly recommend this book for any nutritionists, dieticians, medical practitioners, counsellors and coaches working with people who are struggling with ill-health.

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Denise Doran

Change your life and health today.

Reviewed in Australia on 18 April 2016

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Dr Greger has written a book to change peoples lives from the inside out. He has changed my whole digestive tract within 2 weeks because of eating a plant based diet. It is wonderful to be pain free and eating such high amounts of nutrition. My complete blood picture taken last week has improved on every level. Cholesterol, glucose, uric acid and thyroid to name a few.
I found the book riveting to read. So many facts supported by science. Anyone who follows this plant based protocol will have the best chance if a long and healthy life. A nutrition bible for everyone.

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OneHand

Inspiring

Reviewed in Australia on 10 October 2016

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As a health practitioner I have always believed that what goes in the mouth is the greatest contributor - or otherwise - to a long and healthy life. To date, it has always been difficult to find reliable information about diet. Dr Gregor has changed that. His research now gives me the utmost confidence in making science based recommendations to my clients. In short, his evidence now supports my belief, that changes to one's diet is possible, desirable and life enhancing.

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Frank Procopio

Encyclopedia of amazing information

Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2017

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A wealth of information here in this book. So many references to scientifically proven facts. So much world wide research, so much proof, wow. This book has life changed my food (and beverage) intake for ever. Thanks so much to this amazing book.

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JakeE.

Changed my perspective...Excellent read, very informative and genuine

Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2017

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If I could rate this book higher I would. An absolutely amazing book. I highly recommend it to everyone, absorb the information and give it a try. I gave it a shot and have been going for 2 months now. I have never felt better.

Dr Greger is saving lives

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Sarah Glass AUTHOR "Love the Foods That Set You Free"

How to change your life through food

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2020

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Brilliant book about health and food. If you want to live a healthy life as long as possible, and most likely be fitter, healthier and have more energy whatever your age, read this book, it tells you exactly how to do that. This information should be known by everyone.

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Parvez

Not only is the book packed with science but also quite humorous which makes it fun to read

Reviewed in Australia on 2 April 2016

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Dr. Michael Greger's writing style is engaging. Not only is the book packed with science but also quite humorous which makes it fun to read. The book really changed my perspective on diet and made me reflect on my own. I'm 20 and for 2 years straight I ate vegetables maybe 3 times. I only ate Chicken and white rice, 3-4 times per day.
After amping up my vegetable intake for 2 weeks now, there's a massive difference. My energy levels are sustained, mood is stable, tight trapezius muscles aren't tight any more, I feel light and focused.
My favourite book on nutrition!

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hfffoman

Good advice mixed up with a great deal of salesmanship

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2020

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I will start at the end in the hope that more people will read some useful advice. A huge amount of ill health is caused by today's indulgent western diets. There is no doubt that eating sugar and unrefined carbohydrates takes a lot of the blame. Eating lots of fat, especially animal fat, and other animal products, probably shares the blame, but the science is less certain. A lot of confusion arises because people who stop eating animal products often switch to refined carbohydrates so they are swapping one bad diet for another one. Dr Greger has much less to say about carbohydrates and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the book is grossly biased. That doesn't mean his advice is bad. If you follow his recommendations, you will get the best of all worlds (except gastronomical pleasure) because he does not recommend switching to refined carbohydrates, he recommends switching to healthy whole grains, vegetables and fruit. The challenge is that if you stop eating meat, dairy, and all the yummy foods he goes on about, and also stop eating all the refined carbohydrates like bread, potatoes, and pasta, that he doesn't say so much about, you are going to have to eat an awful lot of those healthy fruits and vegetables.
Now I go back to the beginning. Once upon a time a man called Dr Joel Furhman wrote a book called Eat to Live, which recommended, in sensationalist prose, that we should all eat a lot of varied plant material, little or no animal material, cut back heavily on saturated fat and sugar, and basically avoid just about everything really yummy like cake, chocolate, meat, biscuits, ice-cream, cheese, crisps. Dr Fuhrman became very rich selling books, healthy foods, health retreats, and running a clinic.
20 years later a man called Dr Michael Greger repeated the trick by by writing a book offering the same advice. Dr Greger's style is even more sensationalist than snappy Dr Fuhrman's and at times he sounds more like a salesman than a scientist or doctor. His solution to everything is to stop eating animal products and eat a lot of plant products. How not to die from suicide? become a vegan. How not to die from pollution? don't worry about air quality, just become a vegan. Flatulence from beans? Just cut out the dairy. Heart condition? become a vegan and whatever you do, don't take those dreadful statins which, in his world, have no role to play.
The book is stronger in places than others. The dietary advice in the second half is well balanced and sensible. The same can't be said about the dismissive remarks about statins scattered throughout the first half of the book in contradiction to the vast respectable medical orthodoxy. In this his style is well into the conspiracy theory that characterises medical quackery, and indeed his chapter on how not to die from iatrogenic causes i.e. doctors killing you, treats the whole medical profession as a conspiracy to get rich without caring much about the health of their patients.
A lot of his recommendations are properly backed up by science but I noticed that many of his assertions are carefully phrased using the word "may" as in "X may help with Y". This word "may" is littered through the book. Probably most of his recommendations are sound, but they reek of bias. I will focus on the heart disease chapter as I spent several hours studying his references. The problem is that he keeps talking about the damage caused by animal fats but the evidence mostly shows that heart disease is caused by fats in the blood. It doesn't necssarily follow that high fat in the blood is caused by eating fat. Indeed there is a strong body of opinion that says the opposite - this is the low carb school (strictly, the low refined-carb school). He cites a book called The Low-carb Fraud which has been convincingly discredited, and some of his references go back 40 years and more. Four of his key references are from the same self-confessed maverick. He does not mention a single risk or dietary disadvantage from turning vegan (although he does recommend B12 supplements). He ignores the array of scientific literature that disagrees with him, for example a huge, meta-study that showed only a very modest benefit from eating fruit and vegetables and no significant benefit from eating more than 5 a day. (If you are interested, look for the BMJ meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies by Wang). I sent this to Fuhrman's Institute and they did not seem to have heard of it either, although they did at least make an attempt to respond, thoughnot a very convincing one.
In the heart chapter which I studied in detail, I was concerned to see that some of his evidence is presented erroneously. I have to go into some detail to explain this. He says on page 22 that two papers prove that (a) fish oil supplements don't work, (b) eating more fish doesn't work, and (c) fish oil doesn't help even if you have already had a heart attack. The paper which he says proves (c) actually proves (a). The one he says proves (a) and (b) is actually positive about fish oil. Neither of them support his assertions (b) or (c).
Overall it is difficult to rate the book. The advice is probably worth following (if you can), and probably will make a big difference to your health. There is a lot of excellent discussion based on science but the salesmanship and the bias is a serious concern. For a more balanced, honest discussion it is worth reading Graham Lawton's This Book Could Save Your Life. However, it is so broad and so balanced, it doesn't go as far as it could safely go in making recommendations, and its discussion only skims the surface compared with the detail in Dr Greger's book. It is also worth reading The Diabetes Code by Dr. Jason Fung, a brilliant book with the same faults as Dr. Greger's. For Dr Fung, the solution to everything is to reduce sugar and his interpretation of the evidence is biased in the opposite direction to Dr Greger's. In Dr Fung's view there isn't a "shred of evidence" that a high fat diet is bad for you. I would love to get Dr Greger and Dr Fung in the same room together.

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Reviewed in the United States on 1 November 2017

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PROS: The advice in this book can prevent all of, and reverse most of, the following conditions:
Heart Disease
High Blood Pressure
just about every form of Cancer
Hypertension
Diabetes
Acne
Obesity
Gout
Arthritis
Cluster Migraines
Alzheimer's
Parkinson's
Suicidal Depression
and more.

CONS: There is a typo on page 272.

So ya know, if you hate typos more than you hate dying, this book probably isn't for you.

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H Pedder

Absolutely fantastic. Thoroughly researched and potentially life-changing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2018

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EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS BOOK! It is an invaluable resource. Dr Greger extolls the virtue of a plant-based lifestyle, but does so with an absolute raft of scientific evidence behind his claims and theories. The 'nutrition facts' team and the online resource is a fountain of knowledge - mining data from global studies to pull together key facts/summaries, making our job easier!

This book is split into two sections. The first discusses key ailments of the 21st century, and presents theories behind how our diet could be responsible for causing, and curing, these ailments (with a gazillion references to peer-reviewed studies, blind studies, etc). The second section offers a load of recipes - ideas for helping us to get to that magical 'daily dozen' (tip: download the free daily dozen app to help you track your intake of the valuable food groups).

Do your health a favour and read this book.

192 people found this helpful

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Good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2018

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I almost stopped reading when I reached the middle of the book but I am grateful I continued. It could be boring sometimes but it is the boring stuff we don't know that kill us.

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A. Luegger

Thank you, you saved my life

Reviewed in the United States on 19 June 2018

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This book details the connection between our food and many diseases. I myself have prostrate cancer, stage 4 with bone metastasises. I was given less than a year to live at diagnosis. My conventional meds had stopped working, my cancer markers had steadily increased for the last 4 months when I read this book. I followed the recommended diet of no more processed foods, no animal products, such as dairy, eggs and meats. This was a drastic change for me. Within about twelve weeks my five metastatic areas became inactive, my cancer markers returned to normal, my blood values returned to normal, my previous borderline high blood pressure became excellent. I feel good, I have no more pain and I look healthy. Personally I don't need any more scientific proof to tell me I am on the right track. Is it easy? .... No! But I have a five year old daughter and a wife, and i need to be here a little longer. I am not claiming I am cured. I continue my conventional treatments, but I am also changing my diet, and I have started a one hour per day exercise program. The way I understand things now, I see that we are giving ourselves these terrible diseases, by eating stuff we aren't supposed to. In the process we are lining the pockets of some companies with billions of dollars. We have to understand that these industries are getting rich off our backs. I can only recommend reading this book, following the advice and if not saving your own life, at least you will make it a lot better.

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