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How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers

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How our food choices may influence disease prevention and treatment. In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet. This is his 2016 live talk. Looking for healthy holiday meals? Subscribe to our free newsletter and receive a holiday recipe guide with four recipes: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ I'd like to thank Dr. John McDougall (www.drmcdougall.com) and his team for videotaping this and allowing us to share it with the world. To watch my last four annual talks in their entirety, check out: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death) More Than an Apple a Day (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/more-than-an-apple-a-day-preventing-our-most-common-diseases) From Table to Able (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/from-table-to-able) Food as Medicine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-as-medicine) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM I’d like to thank Dr. John McDougall and his team for videotaping this and allowing us to share it with the world! https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org 0:00 Introduction 5:53 Disease and diet 10:05 Heart disease 16:40 Cancer 27:29 Chronic lower respiratory diseases 31:26 Alzheimer's disease 32:15 Type 2 diabetes 36:08 Kidney failure 39:11 Influenza and pneumonia 40:10 Diet for depression 42:20 Blood infection 48:15 Liver disease 48:54 High blood pressure 55:00 Parkinson's disease 57:24 Plant-based diet vs medication 1:00:32 Comparing smoking to poor diet 1:12:06 Q&A

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