Michael Greger

Michael Herschel Greger (born 1972) is an American physician, author, and professional speaker on public health issues, particularly the benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet and the harms of eating animal products.

Michael Greger

Quotes

• [Compared to cow's milk] soy milk is only deficient in blood pus, antibiotics, artery-clogging fat, and cholesterol.
  • Quoted in Jeffrey M. Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food (Norton & Company, 2009), p. 194.

• A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.
  • Quoted in James E. McWilliams, "The Evidence for a Vegan Diet", in The Atlantic (18 January 2012).

• By age 10, nearly all kids have fatty streaks in their arteries. This is the first sign of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States. So the question for most of us is not whether we should eat healthy to prevent heart disease, but whether we want to reverse the heart disease we may already have.
  • "Heart Disease Starts in Childhood", in NutritionFacts.org (23 September 2013).

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

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

• 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.
  • Interview in the book What the Health by Eunice Wong (Xlibris, 2017), ch. 1.