How Not To Diet With Michael Greger, MD

There's this myth that sitting is the new smoking—not by any stretch of the imagination. It's at least 10 times more deadly to smoke than to sit. That said, prolonged sitting—defined, typically, by over 6 hours a day—is associated with increased mortality, even if you go to the gym and work out hard after work.

Exercise accounts for just 5% of our daily calorie burn—that's why it's so difficult to out-exercise a bad diet.

A whole foods plant-based diet is basically synonymous with an anti-inflammatory diet, and since inflammation plays a roll in so many chronic diseases, it's no wonder an anti-inflammatory diet is going to help treat so many things.

When it comes to something as life and death important as what you feed yourself and your family, if there's any decision we should make best based on evidence, it should be something like that.

What we eat is the number one cause of death and disability. The most important decision we make is what we put in our mouths.

There's only one diet ever proven to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients: a plant-based diet.

Calories eaten in the morning are less fattening—the exact same food. The fewer calories after sundown, the better.

If you're going to miss any meal, it should be supper, not breakfast.

The most profitable doctors visit in North America is a blood pressure check. Doctors love it ... All for a condition that need not happen at all ... High blood pressure is a lifestyle disease.

I only want to say 'I don't know' once—even if it's the most esoteric question in the world. The next time someone asks me that question, I'm going to know the answer.