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  • By: Michael Greger MD, Gene Stone
  • Narrated by: Michael Greger
  • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,973 ratings)
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How Not to Die

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Summary

The Sunday Times best seller.

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?

How Not to Die gives effective, scientifically proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers - heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes - and reveals the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.

Based on the very latest scientific research, How Not to Die examines each of the most common diseases, chapter by chapter, 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.

With emphasis on individual family health history and acknowledging that everyone needs something different, Dr Michael Greger offers practical dietary advice to help you make valuable decisions about your diet in order to live a longer, healthier life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.

©2017 Michael Greger, 2017 Gene Stone (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio

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This book has changed my life!

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.

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It really works

I read this a month ago and I'm still not dead yet. Would recommend to anyone not wanting to die.

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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.

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

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Please audible release the PDF that comes with this book, it is mentioned so many times :(.

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Correlation is not causation

This guy promotes a vegan diet (even though he says he doesn’t, his website says otherwise).

Unprocessed animal products are fine to consume. The illnesses he’s listed are caused by metabolic disease which is caused by high insulin levels. If you follow his recommended diet, you’ll largely avoid such diseases but to say animal products are the cause is factually incorrect.

Processed foods and sugar are to blame.

His theory about eggs is utterly ridiculous, anyone with a brain will do their own research and come to the conclusion this guy is a vegan activist.

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Don't bother it's cherry-picking science

Honestly couldn't get past the first couple of hours. I'm plant based and thoroughly agree that eating healthier diets with less animal products will keep us healthy, but this book just plain lies about it.

The first significant warning was when Gregor quotes a study saying that brazil nuts a month reduced cholesterol. Then went on to say that this was actually only one study saying this, and it was on only TEN patients. However then justified that since there was no bad outcome from doing this then we should start doing it anyways. THIS IS NOT SCIENCE.

It just got worse throughout. To the point where even when some science seemed legitimate, I was googling it anyways to check if he was presenting it properly. I found an article here which outlines all of the poor science he's chosen where he's selecting the studies to suit his agenda.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-not-to-die-review#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2

The intent is there, but you need to present the science correctly otherwise I don't know what to believe. Waste of money.

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An entertaining encyclopaedia of nutrition

For someone who, back in my school days, was not able to digest any sort of scientific terms, this audiobook was suprisingly easy to listen to. Dr Greger is incredibly funny and it is a pleasure to learn from him. Not only can you find a lot of facts about nutrition, diet and all sorts of weird and wonderful scientific research, you can also laugh out loud.
I recommend this book to everyone who likes a bit of a fun fact and/or scientific research, to all the vegans or those advocating healthy eating, those who struggle with poor health, those who don’t want to age, those who want to have energy for their kids, the ones who consider food to be the best medicine and those who think modern medicine will help them out when they start aging. Anyone and everyone who cares about educating themselves even a tiny amount will enjoy “How not to die” because it is a brilliant book!
Thank you Dr Greger for your “labour of love”!

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A Vegan Manifesto

This book should really be titled "A Vegan Manifesto - selective evidence based partizan view of food and health". What's the main cause of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes? Sugar surely has something to do with it? Apparenty not - meat is the culprit.

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Lifechanging

Pretty hard to fault. Not many books are literally life-changing, but this one is. This is not fluffy, hippy feel good stuff. it's hard science that spades on the facts until you would have to be a halfwit not to change the way you eat.

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should be posted to everyone to read

if you only read one book, make it this one. It might not make you change your diet, but it will certainly make you see what you eat in a new light.

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