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Michael Greger

Born October 25, 1972 (age 47)[1][2]

 Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life

Education
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 Tufts University School of Medicine

Medical career

Profession General practitioner

Field Clinical nutrition

Website DrGreger.org

Michael Herschel Greger (born October 25,[1] 1972)[2] is an American physician, author, and
professional speaker on public health issues, particularly the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based
diet and the harms of eating animal products. He is a vegan.

Contents

 1Career
 2Reception
 3Publications
 4References
 5External links

Career
Greger in 2007

Greger went to college at Cornell University School of Agriculture, where as a junior he wrote
informally about the dangers of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow
disease, on a website he published in 1994.[2][3][4] In the same year, he was hired to work on mad cow
issues for Farm Sanctuary, near Cornell, and became a vegan after touring a stockyard as part of
his work with Farm Sanctuary.[2] In 1998, he appeared as an expert witness testifying about bovine
spongiform encephalopathy when cattle producers unsuccessfully sued Oprah Winfrey for libel over
statements she had made about the safety of meat in 1996.[2][5]
He enrolled in Tufts University School of Medicine, originally for its MD/PhD program, but he
withdrew from the dual-degree program to pursue only the medical degree.[6] He graduated in 1999
as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition.[2] In 2001, he joined Organic Consumers
Association to work on mad cow issues, on which he spoke widely as cases of mad cow appeared in
the US and Canada,[2][7][8][9] calling mad cow "The Plague of the 21st Century."[10][11][12]
In 2004, he launched a website and published a book critical of the Atkins Diet and other low carb
diets.[2]
In 2004, the American College Of Lifestyle Medicine was formed in Loma Linda,[13] and Greger was a
founding member[2] as one of the first hundred people to join the organization.[14]
In 2005, he joined the farm animal welfare division of the Humane Society as director of public
health and animal agriculture.[2] In 2008, he testified before Congress[15] after the Humane Society
released its undercover video of the Westland Meat Packing Company, which
showed downer animals entering the meat supply, and which led to the USDA forcing the recall of
143 million pounds of beef, some of which had been routed into the nation's school lunch program.[16]
In 2011, he founded the website NutritionFacts.org[17] with funding from the Jesse & Julie Rasch
Foundation.[18]
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-food, plant-based diet, which he says can
prevent and reverse many chronic diseases.[19][20][21]:10 He is critical of some other doctors for not
encouraging their patients to adopt plant-based diets and to avoid animal-based products[21]: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 and
animal-based food.[22]

Reception
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching received a favorable review which said it was "interesting and
informative to both scientists and lay persons",[23] but public health expert David Sencer was critical
of the book, writing that it "focuses heavily on doomsday scenarios and offers little in terms of
practical advice to the public" and that "a professional audience would quickly put [the book] aside
for more factually correct sources of information".[24]
How Not to Die made The New York Times Best Seller list at least three times.[25][26][27]
Retired physician Harriet A. Hall, who is known as a skeptic in the medical community,[28][29][30] has
written that, while it is well-accepted that it is more healthy to eat a plant-based diet than a typical
Western 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.[19]

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 (Hardcover) (2015) (with Gene Stone) ISBN 1250066115
 The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease (with Gene
Stone & Robin Robertson) (Hardcover) (2018) ISBN 1250127769
 How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss (Hardcover)
(2019) ISBN 9781250199225

References
1. ^ Jump up to:a b Greger, Michael [@nutrition_facts] (October 25, 2014). "It's my birthday today! To
express your appreciation for my work, please consider making a tax-deductible
donation" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2018 –
via Twitter.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j Mandy Van Deven (2010). "Greger, Michael 1972-". In Margaret Puskar-
Pasewicz (ed.). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
p. 123. ISBN 9780313375569.
3. ^ Greger, Michael (1994). "Mad Cow Disease - Much More Serious Than AIDS". Envirolink. Archived
from the original on December 24, 1996.
4. ^ "1996 Interview with Michael Greger". www.mad-cow.org.
5. ^ Usborne, David (February 26, 1998). "Oprah triumphs over the Texas cattle ranchers". The
Independent.
6. ^ Greger, M (1999). "About the Author". United Progressive Alumni. Archived from the original on
March 2, 2000.
7. ^ "The odds against finding mad cow disease: North America's meat inspection rules leave a lot to be
desired, a U.S. expert says". The Vancouver Sun via Lexis-Nexus. June 7, 2003.
8. ^ Parker-Pope, Tara (May 27, 2003). "Beef Industry's Dirty Secret:U.S. Lags on Safety
Standards". Wall Street Journal.
9. ^ "Mad cow disease; USDA misleads public on beef safety." Washington Times [Washington, DC] 2
Jan. 2004: A17. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 1 Sept. 2016.
10. ^ Davidson, S. (2004, Jan 29). MIT to hold forum on mad cow disease; local physician to give keynote
address. Jewish Advocate. Retrieved from Proquest. Quote: "Consumers concerned about mad cow
disease and other issues about safeguarding the food supply may want to attend the Jan. 29 lecture
at MIT by Michael Greger, M.D., entitled "Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century?" ... Greger
was raised in a small Arizona town, "the only Jewish family within 30 miles." His parents were New
York natives; his mother taught Biblical Hebrew at the community college. Following his parents'
divorce, he moved with his mother and brother to Binghamton, N.Y., where she taught Hebrew school
at the orthodox Beth Israel synagogue."
11. ^ "Confused About Mad Cow? New Ad Exposes Scaremongers and Dispels Myths." PR Newswire 5
Jan. 2004. Academic OneFile. Web. 1 Sept. 2016.
12. ^ Greger, Michael (Winter 2004). "The killer among us: Could mad cow disease already be killing
thousands of Americans every year?" (PDF). EarthSave News Vol 15 No. 1. p. 5.
13. ^ "American College Of Lifestyle Medicine". California Explore. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
14. ^ "Joining the American Academy of Lifestyle Medicine (AALM)". American Academy of Lifestyle
Medicine. Archived from the original on December 19, 2003. Retrieved December 19, 2003.
15. ^ Schmit, Julie (March 5, 2008). "Meat plant concerns raised for years". USA Today.
16. ^ Kesmodel, David (February 25, 2008). "Meatpacker in Cow-Abuse Scandal May Shut as Congress
Turns Up Heat – The Wall Street Journal". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
17. ^ Greger, Michael (April 15, 2011). "Welcome to NutritionFacts.org!". NutritionFacts.org.
18. ^ "Featured Projects". The Jesse and Julie Rasch Foundation.
 19. ^ Jump up to:a b Hall HA (February 12, 2013). "Death as a Foodborne Illness Curable by Veganism".
Science-based Medicine. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
20. ^ "Vegan, Plant-Based Diet or… What Label Works?". T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.
October 16, 2015.
21. ^ Jump up to:a b Greger, Michael (2015). How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to
Prevent and Reverse Disease. Flatiron Books. ISBN 9781250066114.
22. ^ Gustafson, C (April 2014). "Michael Greger, md: Reversing Chronic Disease Through Diet;
Addressing the 2015 USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee". Integrative medicine (Encinitas,
Calif.). 13 (2): 22–4. PMC 4684122. PMID 26770088.
23. ^ Pekosz, Andrew (September 4, 2007). "Book Review. Bird flu: A virus of our own hatching". J Clin
Invest. 117 (9): 2350–2350. doi:10.1172/JCI33078. PMC 1952640. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
24. ^ Sencer DJ (2007). "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching". Emerging Infectious Diseases (Book
review). 13 (11): 1802–1803. doi:10.3201/eid1311.070787.
25. ^ The New York Times Best Seller List - Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous for December 27, 2015
26. ^ "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books - Best Sellers - January 3, 2016 - The New York Times".
Retrieved June 26, 2016.
27. ^ "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books - Best Sellers - January 10, 2016 - The New York Times".
Retrieved June 26, 2016.
28. ^ Kranish, Michael (July 24, 2009). "Senators seek coverage for alternative therapies". The Boston
Globe. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
29. ^ Swoopy; Colanduno, Derek (June 10, 2008). "Ep. #079 - Interview: Dr. Harriet Hall - The Doctor Is
In!". Skepticality. Skeptic Magazine. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
30. ^ Shermer, Michael (January 2007). "Airborne Baloney: The latest fad in cold remedies is full of hot
air". Scientific American. Retrieved August 9, 2009.

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