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Michael Greger
American
Author
Born:
Oct 25
,
1972
About
Cancer
Heart
People
Vegetables
You
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Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.
Michael Greger
Depression
Health
Mental Health
Important
Physical
Mental
Physical Health
Major
Most
Diagnosed
Just
Commonly
Illnesses
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
Pressure
Healthy
Stroke
Risk
Simply
Reducing
Blood
Blood Pressure
Improving
Diet
Body
Your
Your Body
Cholesterol
Lessen
Flooding
Switching
Flow
Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months.
Michael Greger
Nature
Mother
Few
Baby
Hundred
Months
Hormones
Pounds
Put
Contains
Calf
Mother Nature
Within
Milk
Growth
Designed
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
Death
Heart
People
Cancer
Pressure
Assume
Our
High
High Blood Pressure
Per
Risk
Only
Attacks
Leading
Genes
Most
Causes
Blood
Blood Pressure
Account
Diseases
Maybe
Cent
Us
Many
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
Cancer
Incredible
Progression
Broccoli
Boost
Risk
Prevent
Detox
Stem
Stem Cells
Prostate
Reduce
Spread
Target
Cells
Against
Breast Cancer
Your
Help
Activate
Liver
Damage
Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.
Michael Greger
Cancer
Destroy
System
Weaken
Ability
Immune
More
Contains
Smoke
Chemicals
Making
Disease
Susceptible
Cells
Tobacco
Body
Studies on cherries, raspberries and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained when they're frozen, so it's a good idea to keep some in the freezer.
Michael Greger
Good
Nutrition
Some
Studies
Idea
Most
Freezer
Cherries
Frozen
Keep
Strawberries
Suggest
Good Idea
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
Cancer
Turkeys
Animals
Build
Other
Unknown
Those
More
Poultry
Consuming
Between
Spread
Due
Scientists
Link
Up
Chickens
Than
May
Cooked
Meat
Reasons
Suggest
Muscles
Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.
Michael Greger
Heart
Fruit
Protection
Cancer
Guard
System
Berries
Immune
Potential
Brain
Heart Disease
Offering
Disease
Against
Acting
Liver
As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.
Michael Greger
You
Age
Pressure
Higher
Tends
Blood
Blood Pressure
Get
Your
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
National
Though
Claims
Mad
Cases
Council
Pig
Pigs
Proven
Been
Discovered
Disease
Susceptible
Producers
Naturally
Pork
Ever
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.
Michael Greger
People
Cause
Cancer
About
Cases
Potential
Never
Another
Smoked
Occur
Quarter
May
Frying
Who
Lung
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
Release
Worst
Though
Bacon
Potentially
Contain
May
Processed
Frying
Produced
Meat
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
Michael Greger
Sad
Emotions
Everyone
Range
Part
Feels
Occasionally
Makes
Human
Us
Full
We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.
Michael Greger
Plant
Healthy
Our
Boost
Foods
Reduce
Intake
Dependence
Need
Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.
Michael Greger
You
Women
Berries
Eating
Delayed
Higher
Like
Intake
Years
Brain
Younger
Your
Aging
Appeared
Cognitive
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
Cancer
Control
Considered
Promising
Physical
Physical Activity
Only
Preventive
Tends
Weight
Because
Exercise
Against
Breast Cancer
Lower
Measure
Helps
Activity
Levels
Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.
Michael Greger
Food
Spices
Group
Other
Ounce
More
Than
Any
Herbs
In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.
Michael Greger
Nature
Fly
Before
Birds
Others
Rarely
Because
Spread
Die
Influenza
Far
Strains
One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.
Michael Greger
Relationship
Difficult
Study
Between
Because
Disease
Behaviors
Diet
Dietary
Reasons
Many
Associated
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
Health
Benefits
Coffee
Healthy
Despite
Evidence
Recommend
Drink
Consumption
Health Benefits
Because
Healthier
Still
Patients
Choices
Even
Growing
Associated
Sick animals can lead to sick people.
Michael Greger
People
Animals
Sick
Lead
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
Legal
Action
Other
Other Countries
Delayed
Join
Countries
Announced
Years
Ban
Chicken
Five
Intentions
Process
Successfully
Use
Manufacturer
Farms
Initiated
Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple.
Michael Greger
You
Will
Remove
Enough
Hungry
Eat
Temptation
House
Deal
Get
Junk
Then
Apple
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
You
Fruit
Will
Drinking
Think
Nutrition
More
Blending
Like
Baked
Than
Forget
Cooked
Apples
Pears
Preserve
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
Michael Greger
Heart
Pressure
Enough
Risk
Attack
Without
Blood
Blood Pressure
Your
Raising
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