Quotes by Michael Greger - Page 2

Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.
Michael Greger / Physician
Diet
Blood
Blood Pressure
Flooding
Healthy
Improving
Pressure
Reducing
Risk
Switching
Your Body
Diet Your Body
Simply
Lessen
Stroke
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The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.
Michael Greger / Physician
Diet
Disability
Premature
Typical
Western
Life Death Long
In Other Words
Largely
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Nitric oxide is a key biological messenger within the body. When released by the cells lining your arteries, it makes the walls of the arteries relax, allowing more blood to flow.
Michael Greger / Physician
Allowing
Flow
Relax
Biological
Lining
Messenger
Body Your Blood
Walls
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One of the worst things you can do if you're worried about breast cancer is to cook beef, pork, fish or poultry at a high temperature - which includes frying, grilling and roasting.
Michael Greger / Physician
Beef
Breast Cancer
Frying
Grilling
Pork
Poultry
Temperature
Worried
Fish
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The fumes produced by frying bacon contain carcinogens called nitrosamines. Though all meat may release potentially carcinogenic fumes, processed meat such as bacon may be the worst.
Michael Greger / Physician
Frying
Meat
Release
Worst
Bacon
Contain
Potentially
Processed
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Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.
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Genes
Identical
Lifestyle
Twins
Attack
Depending
Exact
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In my clinical practice, the one diagnosis I always dreaded giving was Alzheimer's. Billions have been spent on research, but there's still neither a cure nor an effective treatment.
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Billions
Diagnosis
Giving
Practice
Research
Treatment
Clinical
Cure
Dreaded
Effective
Neither
Nor
Spent
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If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.
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Age
Healthy
Heart
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High levels of stress can lead to weakened immunity, rendering animals much more susceptible to disease. This makes the average poultry factory farm a hotbed for outbreaks of avian flu.
Michael Greger / Physician
Average
Disease
Flu
Immunity
Levels
Poultry
Rendering
Stress
Susceptible
Animals
Factory
Farm
Lead
Weakened
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If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.
Michael Greger / Physician
Blood
Blood Pressure
Excess
Fluid
Pressure
Retention
Salt
Too Much
Water
Your Body
Cause
Consume
Push
Responds
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A good way to adjust to a healthier diet is to think of three meals you enjoy that are largely plant-based. Pasta with tomato sauce can be tweaked to whole-grain pasta with added vegetables.
Michael Greger / Physician
Diet
Good Way
Meals
Pasta
Sauce
Vegetables
Added
Adjust
Healthier
Largely
Tomato
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While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.
Michael Greger / Physician
Antibiotics
Chickens
Consumers
Feeding
Millions
Poultry
Prozac
Routine
Shocked
Slime
Pink
Presents
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Don't forget that fruit can be cooked - think of baked apples, poached pears and grilled pineapple. But if you like drinking fruit, blending will preserve more nutrition and fibre than juicing.
Michael Greger / Physician
Apples
Drinking
Nutrition
Pears
Baked
Blending
Cooked
Preserve
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Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.
Michael Greger / Physician
Breast Cancer
Levels
Physical Activity
Measure
Preventive
Promising
Tends
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So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.
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Depriving
Flow
Oxygen
Cent
Fed
Per
Stroke
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The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every time the dietary guidelines are re-evaluated.
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Animal
Guidelines
Dietary
Pulled
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After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researchers found those who consume a plant-based diet were less likely to develop all forms of cancer combined.
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Diet
Dozen
Following
Oxford
Researchers
People More Who
Forms
Combined
Consume
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People tend to eat poorly because it's convenient; it's what's around them. But you can make the switch. I think the way to do that is to just make fruits and vegetables as convenient as possible to eat.
Michael Greger / Physician
Convenient
Vegetables
People Way Possible
Possible
Fruits
Poorly
Switch
Tend
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The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it stops people even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week.
Michael Greger / Physician
Excuse
Pizza
Steps
Turns
Ordering
The Problem With
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Though pigs have been proven susceptible to a porcine spongiform encephalopathy, the National Pork Producers Council claims that no naturally occurring cases of 'mad pig' disease have ever been discovered.
Michael Greger / Physician
Cases
Claims
Council
Disease
Mad
Pork
Producers
Proven
Susceptible
Naturally
Discovered
Pig
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Despite the growing evidence of health benefits associated with coffee consumption, I still don't recommend my patients drink it - not because it's not healthy, but because there are even healthier choices.
Michael Greger / Physician
Benefits
Coffee
Consumption
Health Benefits
Associated
Patients
Recommend
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When the FDA announced its intentions to join other countries and ban quinolone use on U.S. chicken farms, the drug manufacturer Bayer initiated legal action that successfully delayed the process for five years.
Michael Greger / Physician
Legal
Delayed
Farms
Fda
Other Countries
Announced
Ban
Chicken
Initiated
Intentions
Join
Manufacturer
Successfully
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Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.
Michael Greger / Physician
Brain
Eating
Riddle
Too Much
Fat
Clog
Seed
Tissue
Victims
Wrong Kind
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The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.
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American History
Bird
Flu
Pennsylvania
History More American
Deaths
Domestic
Largest
Led
Outbreak
Virus
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You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of baby spinach to a fruit smoothie and may hardly even taste it. Next, try two. Slowly, your taste buds can adapt to more greens.
Michael Greger / Physician
Fruit
Green
Handful
Spinach
Taste
Adapt
Buds
Loves
Hardly
Slowly
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Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.
Michael Greger / Physician
Chinese
Diets
Disease
Genes
Heart Disease
High Risk
Immigration
Resistance
Western
Adopt
African
Area
Just Something
Lifestyles
Rates
Skyrocket
Studies
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A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.
Michael Greger / Physician
Communication
Abnormal
Autism
Behaviour
Interaction
Social Interaction
Vegetables
Improves
Trial
Verbal
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Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build up more in the muscles of chickens and turkeys than in those of other animals.
Michael Greger / Physician
Chickens
Consuming
Meat
Muscles
Poultry
Spread
Turkeys
Unknown
Cooked
Due
Link
Scientists
Suggest
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The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful conditions that often characterize large-scale factory farming in industrialized agriculture.
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Conditions
Emergence
Experts
Farming
Influenza
Large Scale
Spread
Stressful
Attributed
Characterize
Often
Factory
Industrialized
Intensely
Overcrowded
Strains
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Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.
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Diet
Consistent
Plant
Exact
Foods
Latest
Previous
Remained
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The Iowa Women's Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the first place.
Michael Greger / Physician
Health
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Decades
Eating
Found
Iowa
Risk
Study
Vegetables
Associated
Getting
First Place
Followed
Lower
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In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.
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Consumption
Diets
Harvard
Levels
Unknown
Associated
Nearly
Measured
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Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.
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Disease
Harvard
Heart Disease
Peanut Butter
Researchers
Serving
Appeared
Ate
Attack
Nearly
Butter
Compared
Peanut
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Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
Michael Greger / Physician
Blood
Blood Pressure
Cancer
Causes
Genes
High Blood Pressure
Pressure
Risk
Account
Assume
Attacks
Diseases
Per
Leading
Maybe
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You can buy turmeric from any supermarket - or get it raw from Asian shops and grate a quarter of an inch of the root into your food. There's evidence to suggest raw turmeric may have greater anti-inflammatory effects, while cooked turmeric offers better DNA protection.
Michael Greger / Physician
Dna
Effects
Evidence
Greater
Offers
Protection
Shops
Buy
Food Better Your
Cooked
Inch
Quarter
Raw
Root
Suggest
Supermarket
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Broccoli is incredible. It can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defences against pathogens and pollutants; help to prevent lymphoma; boost the enzymes that detox your liver; target breast cancer stem cells; and reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression.
Michael Greger / Physician
Activate
Boost
Breast Cancer
Broccoli
Cancer
Damage
Dna
Liver
Progression
Prostate
Risk
Spread
Stem
Target
Against
Detox
Help
Prevent
Reduce
Stem Cells
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As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.
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Bitter
Drank
Juice
Orange
Palate
Taste
Adapt
Ate
Buds
Minute
Sweets
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When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.
Michael Greger / Physician
Bypass
Disease
Heart Disease
Operations
Plumbing
Scar
Life Home Heart
Diagnosed
Tissue
Wheelchair
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I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.
Michael Greger / Physician
Eye
Responsibility
Thinking
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Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.
Michael Greger / Physician
Animal
Risk
Sand
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I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.
Michael Greger / Physician
Cancer
Exercise
Self
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