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4.39 AVERAGE
4.39 AVERAGE
There are many well written 4 and 5-star reviews on Goodreads about this book (I did the audiobook) and I agree with many of them - so definitely check those out. Some quick notes I took follow.
Our greatest killer:
1. Our diet
2. Smoking
βThe US healthcare system runs on a fee for service model, in which doctors get paid for the pills and procedures they prescribe rewarding quantity over quality. Time is not reimbursed for time spent counselling a patient about the benefits of healthy eating ..β - we mostly have to seek out this information ourselves. If doctors were instead paid for performance, there would be an incentive to treat the lifestyle causes of disease. This also affects medical education. Dr. Greger, Dr. Weil, and other doctors have all commented on the fact that only one class nutrition class was taught during their schooling and it was pretty inadequate. There is no profit motive for nutrition in the medical field.
Best kept secret in medicine: given the right circumstances, your body can heal anything.
Best takeaway: after brewing green tea, you can put the tea leaves in a smoothie. Itβs like making collards, drinking the juice and throwing away the veg.
Our greatest killer:
1. Our diet
2. Smoking
βThe US healthcare system runs on a fee for service model, in which doctors get paid for the pills and procedures they prescribe rewarding quantity over quality. Time is not reimbursed for time spent counselling a patient about the benefits of healthy eating ..β - we mostly have to seek out this information ourselves. If doctors were instead paid for performance, there would be an incentive to treat the lifestyle causes of disease. This also affects medical education. Dr. Greger, Dr. Weil, and other doctors have all commented on the fact that only one class nutrition class was taught during their schooling and it was pretty inadequate. There is no profit motive for nutrition in the medical field.
Best kept secret in medicine: given the right circumstances, your body can heal anything.
Best takeaway: after brewing green tea, you can put the tea leaves in a smoothie. Itβs like making collards, drinking the juice and throwing away the veg.
This ππ½ book ππ½ right ππ½ here! Turned my world upside down and inside out. Took everything I thought I knew about nutrition and threw it out the window. I love that he breaks down the citations and sources bit by bit to really show you what has been hidden from you by big pharma and the like. It's a really big book, but absolutely worth the time. I purchased the book & cookbook already, thats how much I love it
When you spend your working life counseling clients on the paperwork associated with illness, death and taxes, your find your mind gravitating to preventing illness and early death when you are not at the office -- or at least I do. This arrived with my library holds, and it is massive. Quickly I saw it was like many books I've read, so I skimmed it. One fact grabbed my attention: the number of deaths caused by doctor error or other medical mishap is alarming. The chapter opened my eyes to avoiding care if I can, and asking about non-invasive alternatives to procedures. The information was a bit shocking.
The second half of the book reads like Super Food meets Michael Pollen. However, another dose of ideas on how to eat a more plant-based diet, and to get my children to follow, is welcome any day.
The second half of the book reads like Super Food meets Michael Pollen. However, another dose of ideas on how to eat a more plant-based diet, and to get my children to follow, is welcome any day.
informative
medium-paced
I am waiting to read the updated version when it comes out at the end of 2025. I have pre-ordered it.
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Reviewed for Books and livres
I bought this book for the library I work in because it's written by a doctor, was in the top 20 sales in the essays category recently and because I'm interested in the relation between food and health. I didn't like the title however, too catchy for me, but it obviously worked for all those who bought it.
Surprisingly, it's all about how vegetables and avoiding meat, fish and dairy can help you live not only longer, but in a better condition. I've been vegan for practically 10 years, so how can I not be interested, knowing it's true ? I became vegan for the animals, but hey, if it's better for my health and the planet, I won't complain ! Since then, I have indeed noticed I kissed good-bye to chronical sinusitis and violent headaches among other inconveniences.
Basically, even if I don't know about all the diseases mentioned in this book, I found nothing really new in what the doctor said as to the general health, except maybe the relation between certain foods and certain diseases. If you're aching, suffering somewhere in your body, it will be well worth a look. Just change your diet for a couple of weeks, a month, what have you got to lose ? Greger often mentions exercise to go along, of course, even if he gives a duration that not many people can achieve daily - I can't ! Work, family, transports and all that. But a little exercise each day can't hurt. Again, what have you got to lose ?
The first part is all about the illnesses, the second part is about how to put it all in practice and what you should eat every day.
I'd give this book 5 stars and highly recommend it, but there is one drawback : B12. It's only mentioned after the end, in an appendix. How many people read appendixes (except me) ? If you're planning on going vegan, for whatever reason, you must supplement yourself in B12. I know many people have vitamin and mineral deficiencies all over the world, but B12 is really important. B12 used to be found easily before almost all our food went industrial, now it is given to animals that people use as food. Personally, I prefer taking a pill each morning (mango is the flavour of this month) with my glass of water. I can understand that if he had mentioned that at the beginning of the book, many people wouldn't have kept reading, but still, the appendix thing at the end bothers me.
Apart from that, he makes it look as easy as it is. And eating healthy is close to my heart because of all the people dear to me I lost over the years, how many died peacefully of old age in their sleep ? None. Apart from the 2 road accidents, all others were about cancer (family), cardiac arrest (my father), Alzheimer (my mother) and so on. Eating healthy profits not only to you, but also to the people who love you and want to keep you with them as long as they can.
I bought this book for the library I work in because it's written by a doctor, was in the top 20 sales in the essays category recently and because I'm interested in the relation between food and health. I didn't like the title however, too catchy for me, but it obviously worked for all those who bought it.
Surprisingly, it's all about how vegetables and avoiding meat, fish and dairy can help you live not only longer, but in a better condition. I've been vegan for practically 10 years, so how can I not be interested, knowing it's true ? I became vegan for the animals, but hey, if it's better for my health and the planet, I won't complain ! Since then, I have indeed noticed I kissed good-bye to chronical sinusitis and violent headaches among other inconveniences.
Basically, even if I don't know about all the diseases mentioned in this book, I found nothing really new in what the doctor said as to the general health, except maybe the relation between certain foods and certain diseases. If you're aching, suffering somewhere in your body, it will be well worth a look. Just change your diet for a couple of weeks, a month, what have you got to lose ? Greger often mentions exercise to go along, of course, even if he gives a duration that not many people can achieve daily - I can't ! Work, family, transports and all that. But a little exercise each day can't hurt. Again, what have you got to lose ?
The first part is all about the illnesses, the second part is about how to put it all in practice and what you should eat every day.
I'd give this book 5 stars and highly recommend it, but there is one drawback : B12. It's only mentioned after the end, in an appendix. How many people read appendixes (except me) ? If you're planning on going vegan, for whatever reason, you must supplement yourself in B12. I know many people have vitamin and mineral deficiencies all over the world, but B12 is really important. B12 used to be found easily before almost all our food went industrial, now it is given to animals that people use as food. Personally, I prefer taking a pill each morning (mango is the flavour of this month) with my glass of water. I can understand that if he had mentioned that at the beginning of the book, many people wouldn't have kept reading, but still, the appendix thing at the end bothers me.
Apart from that, he makes it look as easy as it is. And eating healthy is close to my heart because of all the people dear to me I lost over the years, how many died peacefully of old age in their sleep ? None. Apart from the 2 road accidents, all others were about cancer (family), cardiac arrest (my father), Alzheimer (my mother) and so on. Eating healthy profits not only to you, but also to the people who love you and want to keep you with them as long as they can.
challenging
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Interesting, but very detailed and dense
informative
inspiring