Tag: michael greger

• Dr Michael Greger – Nutrition Facts

  Dr. Greger is a physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues.

  His website contains hundreds of short videos and many health and nutritional subjects.

  A founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. Currently he serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

  View a video of Michael’s grandmother Frances, who at the age of 65, was transformed from a critically ill patient. Confined to a wheelchair with crippling pain from angina, she was sent home by her doctors to die. After three weeks, she was not only out of her wheelchair but walking ten miles a day. She lived another 31 years..

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  4 March 2023

• Additional Reading

  Below is a list of excellent books that examine the advantages (and disadvantages - there are not any) of eating a whole-food, plant-based diet.

  Read John Robbins’s incredible story about The Pig Farmer from Iowa that is moving and transforming.

  An excellent getting started guide is below. It describes a gentle way of starting by committing to a whole-food, plant-based diet for three weeks. This will give you enough time to start to the health benefits by limiting the amount of changes required. Frequently the changes are so profound that fully embrancing the concept is not as difficult as it first appears.

  Vegan Starter Kit

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  15 September 2022

• How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger

  How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger is essential reading for those who wish to understand the history of pandemics and how to minimise their impact on ourselves and our society. The book describes the causes of these diseases and most importantly, how to prevent these events from occurring.

  The majority of infectious diseases (and all viral diseases) result from our interaction with animals. This book, with thousands of references, gives detailed descriptions of our greatest diseases from bubonic plague, smallpox, the deadly influenza of 1918 and the deadly viral diseases SARS, MERS and COVID-19.

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  13 January 2022

• Wheat and Inflammation

  William Davis is largely responsible for the low-wheat, low-gluten diets with the publication of his book Wheat Belly. In this book he states that we live in a ‘whole grain world’ and that wheat is responsible for the majority of our modern illnesses including wheat.

  Find out what the role of wheat is in inflammation.

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  26 December 2019