176 Quotes by Michael Greger

Every time you put something in your mouth, it’s a lost opportunity to put something even healthier in there

In the References section, I’ve included a website address and a QR code for the full list of the nearly five thousand citations referenced throughout this book.

Calculating your BMI is relatively easy: You can visit one of the scores of online BMI calculators, or you can grab a calculator and calculate it on your own. To do so, multiply your weight in pounds by 703. Then divide that twice by your height in inches. For example, if you weigh 200 pounds and are 71 inches tall (five foot eleven), that would be (200 × 703) ÷ 71 ÷ 71 = 27.9, a BMI indicating that you would be, unfortunately, significantly overweight.

I’m not interested in offering dueling anecdotes, nor am I interested in dietary dogma, beliefs, or opinions. What I am interested in is the science. When it comes to making life-and-death decisions that concern something as important as your own health and that of your family, as far as I’m concerned, there’s only one question: What does the best available balance of evidence say right now? That’s what I’ve tried to encapsulate in this book.

I’m such a stickler for veracity that I hired nine fact-checkers to go through every citation of the How Not to Die manuscript, and I committed to the same rigor with this book.

Sean cuales sean los genes que hemos heredado de nuestros padres, lo que comemos puede afectar al modo en que influyen sobre nuestra salud. Básicamente, tenemos el poder en nuestras manos y en nuestros platos

When your smoking habit erases the antioxidant-boosting effects of eight hundred cups of kale, you know it's time to quit.

Just because you’re born with bad genes doesn’t mean you can’t effectively turn them off.

The eight-a-day recommendation can be traced back to a 1921 paper in which the author measured his own urine and sweat output and determined he lost about 3 percent of his body weight in water a day, which comes out to about eight cups. Consequently, for the longest time, water requirement guidelines for humanity were based on just one person’s urine and sweat measurements.