Quotes About Michael Greger

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.

Supplements don't appear to work. Studies have repeatedly shown that antioxidant supplements have no beneficial effects on respiratory or allergic diseases, underscoring the importance of eating whole foods rather than trying to take isolated components or extracts in pill form.

The simplest recipe has one ingredient: frozen bananas. Peel and freeze some ripe bananas (the riper, the better—I'm talking brown). Once frozen, throw them in a food processor and blend.

Serving Sizes: ½ cup chopped ¼ cup brussels or broccoli sprouts 1 tablespoon horseradish Daily Recommendation: 1 serving per day

Nobel laureate Peter Medawar has said, a virus "is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein,

The best sodium-free salt substitute I've been able to find is something called Table Tasty.

This argument didn't seem to placate the critics, so the AAFP executive

CHIP's name was changed from the Coronary Health Improvement Project to the Complete Health Improvement Program.

They found that the enteric-coated capsules of red pepper powder were able to significantly decrease the intensity of abdominal pain and bloating, suggesting "a way of dealing with this frequent and distressing functional disease…"52

I like sprinkling powdered ginger on sweet potatoes or using it fresh to make lemon-ginger apple chews as an antinausea remedy.

reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research."97

The Exercise "Myth" When trying to lose weight, which is more important: diet or exercise? A national survey found that a "vast majority" of Americans, seven out of ten, believe that food and beverage consumption and physical activity are equally important when it comes to weight loss. About two out of ten favored exercise, and only about one in ten chose diet.3080 The vast majority of Americans are wrong.

The optimal dose appears to be one-half cup,147 but beet juice is perishable, processed, and hard to find.

For some cancers, like our number-two cancer killer, colon cancer, up to 71 percent of cases appear to be preventable through a similar portfolio of simple diet and lifestyle changes.52

For those who don't like seaweed, Eden brand's canned beans have a tiny amount of kelp added such that iodine levels average between 36.3 mcg per half-cup serving (great northern beans) to 71.2 mcg (navy beans).35 Not only are those levels safe—you'd have to eat about twenty cans a day to get too much—but checkmarking my three legume servings a day with Eden's beans would fulfill your daily iodine requirement.

give me just three weeks. I find that if my patients think of it simply as an experiment, they're more likely to go whole hog (whole grain?) and realize the maximum benefits.

Ketogenic diets are also not recommended. When you think of the ideal attributes of a diet for weight control—safe, effective, protective, healthful, wholesome, sustainable, nutritionally complete, and life-extending—typical keto diets guarantee none of them.