How Not to Die Book Cover
🎉 First Meeting for our Book Club
We had our first a meatless Monday lunch + Book Club this Monday. Here is a summary of the introduction part of the book. Hope you will learn something about healthy diet!
🏆 Trivia
Which of the following statements are true?
- There is no such thing as dying from 👴 age.
- Most 🩺 schools offer extensive courses in nutrition.
- ❤️ disease is irreversible.
- Our 🧬 accounts for 80-90% of our risk for major diseases.
- A 🌱-based diet is always healthier than any other.
Answer correctly and get a treat!
📖 How Not to Die — Book Summary
- Focuses on the impact of nutrition on preventing and reversing chronic diseases.
- Provides evidence-based dietary advice supported by scientific research.
- Emphasizes the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Evidence-Based Diet
In this book, I don’t advocate for a vegetarian diet or a vegan diet. I advocate for an evidence-based diet, and the best available balance of science suggests that the more whole plant foods we eat, the better…
Michael Greger, M.D.
- 🩺 ✏️ and internationally recognized 🗣 on public health issues.
- Founder of nutritionfacts.org.
- Known for advocating a plant-based diet as a preventive measure against chronic diseases.
Gene Stone
- Acclaimed ✏️ and 📰 with expertise in health and wellness.
- Has written numerous 📚 on 🌱-based diets, health, and medicine.
- Passionate advocate for healthy living.
☑️ Answers to Trivia Questions
Dying from Old Age
Statement: There is no such thing as dying from 👴 age. Answer: ☑️ Explanation:
- A study of over 42,000 consecutive autopsies found that centenarians succumbed to diseases in 100% of cases.
- People don’t die as a consequence of aging itself, but from diseases, most commonly ❤️ attacks.
Nutrition Education in Medical Schools
Statement: Most 🩺 schools offer extensive courses in nutrition. Answer: ❌ Explanation:
- According to the most recent national survey, only 25% of 🩺 schools offer a single course in nutrition.
- This is down from 37% thirty years ago.
Genetic Influence on Major Diseases
Statement: Our 🧬 accounts for 80-90% of our risk for major diseases. Answer: ❌ Explanation:
- For most leading causes of death, 🧬 accounts for only 10-20% of risk at most.
- Rates of diseases like ❤️ disease and major cancers differ up to a hundredfold among various populations globally.
- When people ✈️ from low- to high-risk countries, their disease rates change to match the new environment.
Reversibility of Heart Disease
Statement: Heart disease is irreversible. Answer: ❌ Explanation:
- Dr. Dean Ornish proved that ❤️ disease could be reversed without drugs or surgery.
- A whole-food, 🌱-based diet, along with other lifestyle changes, has been shown to halt and even reverse the progression of ❤️ disease.
- This method gave Dr. Greger’s grandma 31 more years to live.
Plant-Based Diet and Health
Statement: A 🌱-based diet is always healthier than any other diet. Answer: ❌ Explanation:
- While a whole-food, 🌱-based diet is generally very healthy, not all 🌱-based diets are equally beneficial.
- Vegetarians can still suffer high rates of chronic disease if they eat a lot of processed foods like 🍟🍩🍰.
- 🇮🇳’s rates of diabetes, ❤️ disease, obesity, and stroke have increased far faster than the increase in 🍖 consumption.