{"id":64435,"date":"2026-02-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodrevolution.org\/?p=64435"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:28:04","slug":"how-not-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodrevolution.org\/blog\/how-not-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Die: Dr. Greger\u2019s Groundbreaking Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n      <div class=\"youtube-video\">\n        <div class=\"d-print-none embed-youtube-wrapper mb-3\">\n          <div class=\"embed-youtube ratio ratio-16x9 \">\n            <iframe class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d_tUZWbjQsc?rel=0\" allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"video-caption mt-2 container-fluid\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n              <div class=\"col-10\">\n                <p class=\"mb-0 text-center\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"d-none d-print-inline\">\n          <p><i class=\"fab fa-youtube mr-2\"><\/i><span class=\"print-link\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d_tUZWbjQsc<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n<h2><b>The Global Health Paradox<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s a fact that should stop you in your tracks: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30954305\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">poor diet exceeds smoking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the leading risk factor for death. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study \u2014 the largest study of risk factors in human history \u2014 <strong>diet has surpassed tobacco as the world\u2019s number driver of premature death<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worldwide, Tobacco causes roughly 7 million deaths every year, while diet is underlying close to 11 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet while we&#8217;ve spent decades mobilizing massive public health campaigns against smoking, the deadliest risk factor of all \u2014 what we eat \u2014 remains<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanplh\/article\/PIIS2542-5196%2819%2930173-1\/fulltext\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">largely unaddressed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in doctors&#8217; offices around the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Greger&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Not to Die<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presentation reveals a troubling truth: the medical community has known for decades that<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heart-disease\/data-research\/facts-stats\/index.html\">heart disease<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, our #1 killer, can often be prevented<\/strong> \u2014 and for people already diagnosed,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/188274\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intensive dietary changes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dresselstyn.com\/site\/study01\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arrest and even reverse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the progression of coronary artery disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What kind of dietary changes? Adopting a very low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greger&#8217;s own grandmother illustrates the power of this approach. At 65, Frances Greger had end-stage heart disease. She&#8217;d already had so many bypass surgeries that her doctors said she&#8217;d &#8220;run out of plumbing.&#8221; Confined to a wheelchair with crushing chest pain, she was sent home to die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, she discovered the work of lifestyle medicine pioneer<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pritikin.com\/home-the-basics\/about-pritikin\/38-nathan-pritikin.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nathan Pritikin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Within three weeks of adopting a plant-based diet, she went from wheelchair-bound to walking ten miles a day. She lived another 31 years, to age 96.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And her case was anything but an outlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Science That Changed Everything<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64445\" style=\"width: 1254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64445 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-1160789077-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nutritionist giving consultation to patient with healthy fruit and vegetable, Right nutrition and diet concept\" width=\"1254\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1254,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-1160789077-2-1.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-1160789077-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-1160789077-2-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-1160789077-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1254px) 100vw, 1254px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock credit: kitzcorner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evidence Dr. Greger presents is compelling \u2014 and it&#8217;s been published in some of the most prestigious medical journals in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Heart disease reversal.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dr. Dean Ornish&#8217;s landmark 1990 study<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/1973470\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">proved<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <strong>heart disease could be reversed with diet and lifestyle changes alone<\/strong> \u2014 no drugs, no surgery. Yet despite decades of research showing that intensive lifestyle change can halt and even reverse coronary disease, nutrition and lifestyle counseling remain<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/culinarymedicineuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jama_Kahan_2017_vp_170116-1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uncommon in routine care<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in part due to limited time, training, and reimbursement in the current system. As a result, these approaches have been far slower to be implemented than medication-centered strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A global perspective.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Populations eating predominantly plant-based diets show<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/how-not-to-die-from-high-blood-pressure\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dramatically lower rates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of heart disease, diabetes, and common cancers. Early 20th-century medical research in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0140673600492482\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rural Kenya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and China \u2014 though marred by the colonial language typical of European-centric thought in that era \u2014 documented virtually zero cases of atherosclerosis in populations eating traditional plant-based diets, a finding that remains medically significant today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The three-week transformation.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Today, we find that within just<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37178356\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three weeks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40972869\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blood flow to the heart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can improve dramatically as the body begins dissolving arterial plaque.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37178356\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Blood pressure often normalizes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, allowing many patients to reduce or eliminate medications.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why Haven&#8217;t You Heard This Before?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parallel to tobacco is striking \u2014 and Dr. Greger draws it masterfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the time the U.S. Surgeon General issued the first official warning about smoking in 1964, more than<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco-surgeon-general-reports\/about\/history.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7,000 scientific studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had already documented the health risks of tobacco. It took roughly 25 years from the time compelling evidence began accumulating for a formal federal warning to be issued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During that lag, doctors<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/figure\/Example-of-tobacco-advertising-in-the-1950s-5_fig2_319086980\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appeared in cigarette ads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The medical establishment downplayed the risks. The American Medical Association\u2019s rallying cry at the time? <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything in moderation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound familiar?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re in a strikingly similar situation today with diet. The science exists \u2014 published in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals \u2014 but institutional and commercial interests create powerful barriers to its dissemination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Dr. Greger puts it: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We have a food system that doesn&#8217;t care about health and a healthcare system that doesn&#8217;t care about food.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The numbers back him up. Surveys of U.S. medical school curricula consistently show that the average medical student receives<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4042309\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fewer than 25 total hours<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of nutrition education across four years of training. In one recent study, that averaged out to roughly five hours per year. Doctors graduate trained to prescribe drugs and perform surgeries \u2014 the profitable interventions \u2014 while <strong>the most powerful medicine of all sits, unacknowledged, on our grocery store shelves.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the food industry, Dr. Greger notes, uses many of the same tactics the tobacco industry pioneered: hiring scientists to cast doubt on the evidence, funding misleading studies, and muddying the public conversation about what&#8217;s healthy and what isn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Beyond Heart Disease<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64449\" style=\"width: 1399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64449\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2196686299.jpg\" alt=\"Food sources of plant based diet. Healthy diet with legumes, dried fruit, seeds, nuts and vegetables. Foods high in protein, antioxidants, vitamins and fiber.\" width=\"1399\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1399,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2196686299.jpg 1399w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2196686299-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2196686299-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2196686299-768x411.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1399px) 100vw, 1399px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock credit: bit245<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet extend far beyond cardiovascular health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Diabetes.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In a controlled metabolic study, men with type 2 diabetes placed on a high-fiber, plant-based diet were able to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2161831322004896\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reduce their insulin needs by about 60%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over just 16 days, with nearly half of the participants discontinuing insulin entirely. As Dr. Greger recounts in the film, patients who had been injecting insulin for 20 years found themselves off it in less than two weeks. No one had told them about a plant-based diet. For decades, they were just 13 days away from being free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cancer.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Research by Dr. T. Colin Campbell demonstrated that<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/dr-t-colin-campbell-determining-the-link-between-diet-and-cancer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cancer growth could be turned on and off<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by adjusting levels of animal protein in the diet. As Campbell&#8217;s work showed, <strong>we can fight cancer with nutrition.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Brain health.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The same arterial plaque that causes heart attacks also contributes to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. As science increasingly confirms,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heart.org\/news\/whats-good-for-the-heart-is-good-for-the-brain\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what&#8217;s good for your heart is good for your brain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Your brain is only 2% of your body&#8217;s weight, but it consumes 25% of its energy. It has 400 miles of vasculature. If dietary risk factors affect your heart, why wouldn&#8217;t they affect the most energy-hungry organ in your body?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Weight loss.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Whole-food, plant-based diets represent<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7444011\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the most effective weight loss approach<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ever published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature \u2014 without calorie counting or portion control.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Power of Food as Medicine<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64453\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64453\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-862437562.jpg\" alt=\"Natural food supplement concept as a pill or medicine capsule with fresh fruit and vegetables inside on a fork as a nutrition and dietary vitamin symbol for good eating health and fitness lifestyle with a 3D render.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-862437562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-862437562-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=150,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-862437562-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-862437562-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.foodrevolution.org\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=700,quality=75,format=auto\/foodrevolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-862437562-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock credit: wildpixel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps most remarkably, these changes happen quickly. Patients with crushing chest pain often become pain-free within weeks. Diabetics reduce or eliminate insulin. Blood pressure normalizes. Inflammation decreases throughout the body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Dr. Greger emphasizes, this isn&#8217;t about restriction; it&#8217;s about giving your body the tools it needs to heal itself. One of the most amazing things he learned in medical training was that within 15 years of quitting, a smoker&#8217;s lung cancer risk approaches that of someone who never smoked. <strong>The body <\/strong><\/span><strong><i>wants<\/i> to heal. We just have to stop re-injuring it three meals a day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every lifestyle medicine doctor featured in the film tells essentially the same story: <strong>once patients switch to whole-food, plant-based eating, something remarkable can happen.<\/strong> Blood pressure drops so fast that medications need to be reduced. Clinic visits get pushed from every six weeks to every six months. Patients who had been worsening for years started improving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Kim Williams, past president of the American College of Cardiology and a plant-based advocate, put it simply:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/dont-wait-until-your-doctor-kicks-the-habit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind dying. I just don&#8217;t want it to be my own fault.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Taking Control of Your Health<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The message of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Not to Die<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is ultimately empowering: you don&#8217;t need to wait for the medical establishment to catch up with the science. The research is available now. The evidence is clear.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(19)30041-8\/fulltext\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most premature death and disability are preventable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through nutrition and lifestyle choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This isn&#8217;t about perfection or deprivation. It&#8217;s about understanding that <strong>every meal is an opportunity to either feed disease or support healing<\/strong>. As Dr. Greger&#8217;s grandmother proved, it&#8217;s never too late to start. Her story, and thousands like it, demonstrate the remarkable capacity of the human body to recover when given the right conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As one of the physicians in the film puts it, if everyone ate this way, doctors would be somewhat out of business. It would be a humongous change in healthcare, because dietary change addresses not just one disease at a time, but the inflammatory process underlying nearly all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The choice, as Dr. Greger reminds us, is literally a matter of life and death. But it&#8217;s also about the quality of those years \u2014 about maintaining independence, vitality, and the ability to enjoy life with the people you love, well into your later years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The science is there. The fork is in your hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-pro\"><b>Editor\u2019s note: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Greger&#8217;s nonprofit website, NutritionFacts.org, offers free, daily videos and articles distilling the latest peer-reviewed nutrition research, with no ads, no sponsorships, and no conflicts of interest. Every year, Dr. Greger and his team read through every English-language nutrition journal in the world to bring you the most important findings in accessible, practical formats. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explore NutritionFacts.org here.<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4>Tell us in the comments:<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list text-h4 text-600\">\n<li>What surprised you most in Dr. Greger&#8217;s presentation?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever had a doctor talk to you about nutrition for disease prevention or reversal? What was that conversation like?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any dietary changes you might want to make, based on what you\u2019ve learned here?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Read Next:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foodrevolution.org\/blog\/10-plant-based-food-documentaries-to-watch\/\">10 Plant-Based Food Documentaries to Watch Right Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foodrevolution.org\/blog\/plant-based-protein\/\">Plant-Based Protein: Best Sources &amp; How Much You Actually Need<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, poor diet kills more people worldwide than smoking, car accidents, and war combined. It&#8217;s the #1 cause of premature death\u2014yet it&#8217;s the one thing your doctor likely never discusses with you. Why? In this powerful presentation, Dr. Michael Greger reveals how the same forces that kept doctors promoting cigarettes for decades are now burying lifesaving nutrition science in medical journals. Through his grandmother&#8217;s recovery from &#8220;terminal&#8221; heart disease, landmark studies showing disease reversal in weeks, and an unflinching look at medical education&#8217;s failures, Dr. Greger proves: the cure to our biggest killers has been hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2639,2640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blog","category-health","category-lifestyle","wpautop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Not to Die: Dr. Greger&#039;s Life-Saving Nutrition Talk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how not to die from diet-related disease. 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