Have you ever noticed that every month seems to bring a trendy new diet and yet obesity

rates continue to rise and with it a growing number of health problems?

That's why I wrote my new book How Not To Diet.

Check it out at your local public library.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

And down the show I get to talk about one of my favorite topics which happens to be

the subject of my new book How Not To Diet.

Why don't we give a big warm welcome to Dr. Michael Greger.

Surely if there was some safe, simple, side-effect-free solution to the obesity epidemic, we would

know about it by now, right?

I'm not so sure.

It may take up to 17 years before research findings make it into day-to-day clinical

practice to take one example that was particularly poignant for my family heart disease.

Decades ago, Dr. Dean Ornish and colleagues published evidence of one of the most prestigious

medical journals in the world that our leading cause of death could be reversed with

diets and lifestyle changes alone yet hardly anything changed.

Even now hundreds of thousands of Americans continue to needlessly die from what we learned

decades ago was a reversible disease.

In fact, I'd seen it with my own eyes.

My grandmother was cured of her end-stage heart disease by one of Dean's predecessors,

Nathan Prittikin, using similar methods.

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