Picture the end of your life. Do you want to die from heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes?
I certainly don’t. In How Not to Die, Michael Greger argues that a plant-based, whole-food diet has been scientifically shown to reduce the most common diseases leading to death.
Citing thousands of references from scientific literature, Greger covers the top 15 causes of death (from heart disease to Parkinson’s) and describes how diet can reduce each cause of death. He then gives his recommendation for “The Daily Dozen” foods to eat to maximize health benefits.
In this summary of How Not to Die, I’ll start with the main points of the book, as well as my major criticisms. Then we’ll work chapter by chapter, disease by disease, and end with his top daily diet recommendations.
