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{{Infobox person
| name       = Michael Greger
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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]]|plant-based]], healthy diet—optimally to [[vegan]] diet—and says that such a diet can prevent and reverse many chronic diseases.<ref name=hall/><ref>{{cite web|title=Vegan, Plant-Based Diet or… What Label Works?|url=http://nutritionstudies.org/vegan-plant-based-diet-or-what-label-works/|publisher=T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies|date=16 October 2015}}</ref><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 prote(contracted; show full)[[Category:American people of Jewish descent]]
[[Category:20th-century American physicians]]
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[[Category:Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni]]
[[Category:Tufts University School of Medicine alumni]]
[[Category:Veganism]]
[[Category:Vegetarianism activists]]
[[Category:1972 births]]