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How Not to Die

Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

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How Not to Die

By: Michael Greger, Gene Stone
Narrated by: Michael Greger
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About this listen

Read by the author, Dr Michael Greger.

'This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented with proper nutrition' – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The international bestseller, Dr Michael Greger's How Not To Die, read by the author, gives effective, scientifically-proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers. From heart disease, breast cancer, and prostate cancer, to high blood pressure and diabetes – it reveals the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.

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?

Based on the latest scientific research, How Not To Die examines each of the most common diseases 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. It also shares Dr Greger's 'Daily Dozen' – the twelve foods we should all eat every day to stay in the best of health.

With emphasis on individual family health history and acknowledging that everyone needs something different, Dr Michael Greger offers practical dietary advice to help you live longer, healthier lives.

'Dr Michael Greger reveals the foods that will help you live longer.' – Daily Mail

 Hygiene & Healthy Living Medicine & Health Care Industry Physical Illness & Disease Nutrition Healthy Diet Thought-Provoking Heartfelt Health Inspiring Medicine

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Critic reviews

Dr Michael Greger reveals the foods that will help you live longer
This book brims with valuable insights ... Vegetarian or not, this book is a great way to improve your diet
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
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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I’ve listened to more than 300 audio books mostly about motivation, meditation, lifestyle change, health, nutrition etc. But this book by far is the best book I’ve ever listened to. I was thinking of cutting down on meat for the last 5 years and move to organic slowly. But after 2 hours of listening to this book I turned vegan. Yes, not only I quit meat, I quite eggs, dairy, fish oil, bone broth and anything that is animal based.
It’s amazing how much information food industry hide from people.
I’ve encouraged my family to cut down on meat, eat more fruit and vegetables and stop having all these supplements that cause more harm than good.
Thanks for sharing all these amazing honest valuable information.
I’m going to join the website and support it to make more people aware of this unhealthy food habit pandemic that kills our loved ones in the most cruel ways possible. All number one killers like heart attach, diabetes, cancers, strokes etc. are directly linked with nutrition particularly animal based products.
I normally don’t write reviews but I had to do this.
Thanks for changing my life. It took me 4 weeks to finish this book and I’m already feeling super healthier, skin looks amazing, acid reflux symptoms are reduced and it’s only going to get better.

This book has changed my life!

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend anyone who is interested in nutrition or health.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Michael Greger

Have you listened to any of Michael Greger’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Watched his youtube videos. This is organised and portable.

Any additional comments?

Audible have not released the PDF referred to multiple times. Really poor from audible. Disappointing.

No PDF

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struggled a bit with the reader, otherwise great write! life changing! will eat more fruit and veg as a result ;)

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Thank you so much for this book, after Initially going vegan this book made up my mind to go WFPB, I have listened to this book over the space of a month and the changes I have implemented from the knowledge you have shared has already dramatically improved my heath. No more IBS, back pain isn’t as bad and the best improvement is my hyperthyroidism/Graves’ disease has improved, and my blood results have come back as normal after nearly 18months of being abnormal, only change is WFPB. Amazing! Next I will be cutting down on the hyperthyroidism medication with the help of my endocrinologist. I just hope I can convince older family members to make these changes too. Moving on to how not to diet next. Thanks again

Life changing book for me and my family

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highly recommend this book its full of so much useful info. simple things u can implement without disrupting your life at all. loved it! i have never recommended a health book to friends or family before, but this one i was raving about from chapter 3!

fantastic book! full of useful info!

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