Michael Greger

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

High levels of stress can lead to weakened immunity, rendering animals much more susceptible to disease. This makes the average poultry factory farm a hotbed for outbreaks of avian flu.

Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.