There are lots of good reasons to try and follow a healthier diet.

You lose weight, you feel good, but the main reason to live a longer, happy, productive

life.

Sounds good, right?

And though it may sound deceptively easy, the devil is in the details.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast on your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

If you're wondering if I've ever done a TED Talk, you'll be thrilled to know that the

answer is a resounding yes, and here it is.

A talk I did for recent TEDx event in Sedona, Arizona about our greatest public health

issues.

My grandmother was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease and sent home to die.

She had to add so many bypass surgeries basically run out of plumbing, confined to wheelchair,

crushing chest pain.

Her life was over at age 65.

But then she heard about this guy, Nathan Prittikin, one of our early lifestyle medicine

pioneers, and what happened next is actually detailed in Prittikin's biography.

My grandma was one of the death's door people.

Francis Greger, my grandmother, arrived in the wheelchair.

Mrs. Greger had heart disease, and she had an occultication in her condition.

So bad.

She could no longer walk without great pain in her chest and legs.

Within three weeks though, she was not only out of her wheelchair, she was walking ten

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