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“Back in 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the “doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of [the] human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.”12 Sadly, all it takes is a few minutes watching pharmaceutical ads on television imploring viewers to “ask your doctor” about this or that drug to know that Edison’s prediction hasn’t come true. A study of thousands of patient visits found that the average length of time primary-care doctors spend talking about nutrition is about ten seconds.”
― Michael Greger, How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“All the visions of the future of education, the future of teaching, the future of work, the future of learning are ideological. They are also political. As we hear the visions of politicians and entrepreneurs, as we listen to the visions of the rest of today’s speakers, we need to remember that. Predictions about the future are not neutral. They are not objective. They are invested—invested in a past and a present and a future. Invested in a certain worldview of what learning looks like now, what it has looked like before and what—thanks to whatever happens in the future—what it might look like going forward.”
― Audrey Watters, The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology

“That one unifying diet found to best prevent and treat many of these chronic diseases is a whole-food, plant-based diet, defined as an eating pattern that encourages the consumption of unrefined plant foods and discourages meats, dairy products, eggs, and processed foods.”
― Michael Greger, How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“Even though our eating habits are now killing more Americans than our smoking habits,32 I often hear the refrain in public health circles that we have to work with, rather than against, these companies, because unlike with tobacco, we don’t have to smoke, but we do have to eat.33 Well, yes, we need to breathe—but we don’t need to breathe smoke. And yes, we need to eat, but we don’t need to eat junk.”
― Michael Greger, How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease