Staying Alive
Poor diet is the leading cause of disease, premature ageing and lower health expectancy. American doctor and author Dr Michael Greger has used this fact, proven through countless studies, to devise a special dietary regimen he wrote about in his book How Not to Die, which became a mega hit in the US. Here, Dr Greger explains how we can easily – and pleasurably – gain many healthy years of life through “Daily Dozen”.
my book, How Not to Die, was inspired by my grandmother. At the age of 65, she was told her life was over. Her doctors sent her home to die in a wheelchair. But shortly after being discharged from the hospital, she watched a 60-minute episode on Nathan Pritikin, a pioneer in reversing heart disease through a plant-based diet. My grandmother flew to the Pritikin Longevity Centre in California to find out whether his programme could perhaps help her. She wheeled herself in in her wheelchair and walked out healthily on her two feet. She managed to live another 31 years beyond what she had been given – and enjoyed life with her six grandchildren, myself included.
Plant Power
My grandmother’s recovery from the final stages of heart disease, achieved by changing her diet, promoted my direction in life: I wanted to become a doctor, specialising in nutrition. Dr Dean Ornish, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, was the first to
