Michael Greger: Diet

Michael Greger is American physician, author, and vegan health activist. Explore interesting quotes on diet.
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“We can actually change the expression of genes—tumor suppressing genes, tumor activating genes—by what we eat, what we put into our bodies. So, even if you've been dealt a bad genetic deck, you can still reshuffle it with diet. … When you’re treating diseases with drugs, you know there’s one drug you take for cholesterol, a different class of drugs you take for high blood pressure, different class of drugs you take for diabetes, but, with diet, a plant-based diet affects all these diseases. One diet to kinda rule them all.”

Michael Greger

Interview in the documentary-film What the Health by Kip Andersen (2017).

Disease , Change

“People with a family history of disease often throw up their hands: ‘I've got bad genes.’ No, these are the people who have to eat exquisitely healthy. Bad diets often run in families. You eat how you were taught to eat. For most Americans, that's not good news. But we can regain our health—by eating the plant-based diets of populations that don't suffer from these diseases.”

Michael Greger

Interview in the book What the Health https://books.google.it/books?id=FIY8DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT0 by Eunice Wong (Xlibris, 2017), ch. 1.

People , Health , Disease , Family

“A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.”

Michael Greger

Quoted in James E. McWilliams, "The Evidence for a Vegan Diet" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-evidence-for-a-vegan-diet/251498/, in The Atlantic (18 January 2012).

Disease

“When you're treating diseases with drugs, you know there's one drug you take for cholesterol, a different class of drugs you take for high blood pressure, different class of drugs you take for diabetes, but, with diet, a plant-based diet affects all these diseases. One diet to kinda rule them all.”

Michael Greger

Interview in the documentary-film What the Health by Kip Andersen (2017).

Disease

“We can actually change the expression of genes—tumor suppressing genes, tumor activating genes—by what we eat, what we put into our bodies. So, even if you've been dealt a bad genetic deck, you can still reshuffle it with diet.”

Michael Greger

Interview in the documentary-film What the Health by Kip Andersen (2017).

Bad luck , Change