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{{Infobox person
| name       = Michael Greger
| image      =Dr greger.png
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1972}}
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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
 whole foods, [[plant-based diet]]—optimally to [[vegan]] diet—, (thus [[vegan]] but with an emphasis on health) and says 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 U(contracted; show full)tificamerican.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>

==Publications==
* ''Heart Failure: Diary of a Third-Year Medical Student'' (2000)
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[[Category:Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni]]
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[[Category:Vegetarianism activists]]
[[Category:1972 births]]