This book is about how diet can prevent the most common causes of death, at least that's the first part. The second part, which i started first, is an in depth analysis of the 12 most nutritious foods (with the exception of herbs & spices and exercise) and how to get them into our diet every day. I've been a long time viewer of Dr. Greger's videos on nutritionfact.org so i've already been convinced of the benefits of a plant based diet but i wanted a resource that could synthesize all that information in one place so that i may act on it more easily. The thing I love about this book and his site is that all of the recommendations are based off of the latest nutrition research, not his random ass opinion, not an appeal to nature, nor an appeal to "spiritual" reasoning, nor even the ethics angle, none of that. Instead, he gives us the science on it. I've read a ton of other diet books, and while some of them will cite their sources, nothing comes close to the 200 pages of studies cited in the back of the book. Now the volume of research cited is no indicator of truth or clear reasoning. He could, as many people have claimed, cherry pick his studies to confirm his preformed conclusions but there are enough meta analyses and individual threads of
