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{{Infobox person
| name       = Michael Greger
| image      =Dr greger.png
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1972}}
| education  = [[Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences]] <br> [[Tufts University School of Medicine]]
| module     = {{Infobox medical details
 | profession        = General practitioner
 | field             = Clinical nutrition
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 | specialism        = <!-- Veganism/Vegetarianism -->
 | research_field    = <!-- Public health threats from industrial agriculture -->
 }}
 | website           = {{URL|http://www.drgreger.org/}}
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[[File:Michael Greger-DC-VegFest-2012.jpg|thumb|Greger in 2007]]
'''Michael Herschel Greger''' is an [[United States|American]] leading physician, author, and professional speaker on [[public health]] issues, particularly the provenclaimed benefits of a [[plant-based diet]] and the claimed harms of eating animal products. He is a [[vegan]] and creator of NutritionFacts.org.

==Career==
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In his lectures, videos, and writings about nutrition he tries to persuade people to change their eating habits from a [[Western pattern diet]] to a [[plant-based diet]]—optimally to [[vegan]] diet—and 
demonstrates howsays that such a diet can prevent and reverse many chronic diseases.<ref name=hall/><ref name=HowNot>{{cite book|last1=Greger|first1=Michael|title=How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease|date=2015|publisher=Flatiron Books|isbn=9781250066114}}</ref>{{rp|10}} He is critical of other doctors for not challenging their patients to adopt plant-based diets and to avoid animal-based products<ref name=HowNot/>{{rp|1–12}} and criticizes the US government for giving watered-down advice about healthy eating in its guidelines, in order to protect the economic interests of food producers—especially those who make junk food or produce animal-based food.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gustafson|first1=C|title=Michael Greger, md: Reversing Chronic Disease Through Diet; Addressing the 2015 USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee.|journal=Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.)|date=April 2014|volume=13|issue=2|pages=22–4|pmid=26770088|pmc=4684122}}</ref>

Retired physician [[Harriet A. Hall]], who is known for applying critical thinking to health claims,<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/07/24/senators_seek_coverage_for_alternative_therapies/ | title=Senators seek coverage for alternative therapies | author=Kranish, Michael | newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] | date=July 24, 2009 | accessdate=August 8, 2009 | postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref><ref name="Skepticality79">{{Cite journal | title=Ep. #079 - Interview: Dr. Harriet Hall - The Doctor Is In!| date=June 10, 2008 | url=http://www.skepticality.com/the-doctor-is-in/ | author=Swoopy | authorlink=Robynn McCarthy | first2=Derek | last2=Colanduno | author2-link=Derek Colanduno | work=[[Skepticality]] | publisher=[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|Skeptic Magazine]]| accessdate=November 27, 2011 | postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=airborne-baloney | title=Airborne Baloney: The latest fad in cold remedies is full of hot air | author=Shermer, Michael | date=January 2007 | work=[[Scientific American]] | accessdate=August 9, 2009 | postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref> has written that, while it is well accepted that it is more healthy to eat a plant-based diet than a western pattern diet, Greger often overstates the known benefits of such a diet as well as the harm caused by eating animal products (for example, in a talk he claimed that a single meal rich in animal products can "cripple" one's arteries), and he sometimes does not discuss evidence that contradicts his strong claims.<ref name=hall>{{cite web |publisher=Science-based Medicine |url=https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illness-curable-by-veganism/ |author=Hall HA |accessdate=December 13, 2015 |date=February 12, 2013 |title=Death as a Foodborne Illness Curable by Veganism}}</ref>⏎
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==Publications==
* ''Heart Failure: Diary of a Third-Year Medical Student'' (2000)
* ''Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze'' (2005).
* ''Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching'' (2007)
* ''How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease'' (2015) (with [[Gene Stone]])

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