How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

Once again Dr. Greger delivers on his series of how not to in the health topic of diet and what we consume in our daily lives.

This book is jam packed with so many topics and categories it is hard to keep track of them in your mind's eye. Most everything is backed up by prodigious research and studies that support or debunk many long held beliefs in what benefits us or what does not.

Dr. Greger is a die hard plant based diet advocate, actually more a zealot on vegetables. He sees the meats as the poisons that take a significant toll on your health and longevity.

He gets into some very esoteric topics on deep research into certain chemistry and complex subjects that I found somewhat hard to follow. But overall this book is infinitely useful show more to those looking for answers to longevity and the do's and dont's of nutrition and health. show less

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM continues Greger's exploration into the research of how to eat the healthiest diet possible to live the healthiest life possible for the longest healthy life possible. While I understood the need for Greger to refer to videos on his website for further explanation given how long the book already is, I found it distracting at times. How Not to Age isn't a fountain of youth as much as a guide to the benefits of eating healthfully and avoiding unhealthy food. As anyone who has followed Gregor's work knows, the answers are often to follow a plant-based diet still I appreciate that Greger is honest enough to explore even the studies show more that tangentially point in other directions. How Not to Age debunks myths and explores studies including who paid for the studies and whether the sponsors have a vested interest in the outcome, particularly for their own income at the expense of the general public. show less

Diet and exercise

Does it take a thousand pages to say that an unhealthy diet is the main cause of death in the United States. No, but it does take that many pages to show the evidence that a whole food plant based diet eating a variety of foods is the key. Exercise is also important.

Eating a variety of plant based Whole Foods has been repeatedly shown to add years to a person’s life. That is easy to say. It takes all these pages to say it convincingly & that supplements (even if not adulterated) are not nearly as effective.

This book is not 1000 pages long, but it would have been if the publisher hadn’t restricted it. Thus there are over 8000 references, and uncounted inserted links.

At 700+ pages, certainly not a slim volume, even if it might help you to slim. In fact borderline indigestible; fact piled on fact, every reference given to Greger‘s own research and publications both in print and online, often 20 or 30 refs per page .I did a kind of speed reading, browsing at each chapter and some of his summaries or comments, then looking up a few items of my own particular interests. he even has humour but does little to lift the heaviness of the whole enterprise.