Here's a question for you.

What's the best way to live a longer, healthier life?

Diet, exercise, both eating healthy while doing jumping jacks?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

And I'm here to help you answer that question.

We have tremendous power over our health destiny

and longevity.

The vast majority of premature death and disability

is preventable with a healthy enough diet and lifestyle.

And I'm here to bring you the latest peer-reviewed research

to give you the tools to put it into practice.

In my book How Not To Die, I center my recommendations

around a daily dozen checklist of all the healthiest

of healthy foods I try to fit into my daily routine.

Here's the system I developed to help make sense of it all.

In my book How Not To Die, I suggest

we try to center our diets around whole plant foods.

But some plants are healthier than others.

For example, you can apparently live extended periods

eating practically nothing but white potatoes.

That would, by definition, be a whole food plant-based diet,

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