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Michael Greger
“you had two people eating the same number of calories, it appears the person eating more meat would, on average, gain significantly more weight.”
Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger
“the dividing line between health-promoting and disease-promoting foods may be less plant- versus animal-sourced foods and more whole plant foods versus most everything else.”
Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger
“China is perhaps the best-studied example. There, a transition away from the country’s traditional, plant-based diet was accompanied by a sharp rise in diet-related chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.38”
Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Any wine will get you high.
Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear,
or some urgency about “what’s needed.”
Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Michael Greger
“man scatters seed on the ground … the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” Had the farmer from scripture postponed his sowing until he understood the biology of seed germination, he wouldn’t have lasted very long.”
Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

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