The How Not to Die Cookbook Quotes

“healthiest diet is one that minimizes the intake of meat, eggs, dairy, and processed junk, and maximizes the intake of fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils), whole grains, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, and herbs and spices—basically, real food that grows out of the ground. Those are our healthiest choices.”
― Michael Greger, The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

“This is why I prefer the term whole-food, plant-based nutrition.”
― Michael Greger, The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

“As Kaiser Permanente’s guide The Plant-Based Diet: A Healthier Way to Eat puts it: “If you find you cannot do a plant-based diet 100 percent of the time, then aim for 80 percent. Any movement toward more plants and fewer animal products [and processed foods] can improve your health!”3”
― Michael Greger, The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

“I prefer the term whole-food, plant-based nutrition. The best available balance of evidence suggests the healthiest diet is one that minimizes the intake of meat, eggs, dairy, and processed junk, and maximizes the intake of fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils), whole grains, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, and herbs and spices—basically, real food that grows out of the ground. Those are our healthiest choices. What do I mean by whole food? I mean a food that is not overly processed. In other words, nothing bad has been added, and nothing good has been taken away.”
― Michael Greger, The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

“Dear Doc, You won’t believe this. My diabetes is GONE. I beat it, doc! How Not to Die really did save my life! Guess what else? My wife has had problems with her weight since she was a teenager. We went on a plant-based diet together, and she has, for the first time in years, gotten to a normal weight! We are both so happy, we feel like teenagers again. (Did I tell you we were high school sweethearts? That was a very long time ago, but it doesn’t feel so long ago anymore!)”
― Michael Greger, The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease