Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger, and I'm here to ask you, what is the most important

decision you'll make today?

Is it how you'll get to work, who you'll set up a meeting with, what friends you'll

call for lunch?

Well, as it turns out, probably the most important decision you'll make today is what to eat.

What we eat on a day-to-day basis is the number one determinant of our health and longevity.

Literally, most premature deaths in the United States are preventable and related to nutrition.

So we're going to explore some smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Here we refer to the science, the research, the available data published in the peer-reviewed

medical literature right now.

That's why I wrote my book How Not To Die and why I created my non-profit site NutritionFacts.org.

And now, this podcast.

The benefits of consuming an abundance of conventional produce or soy foods far outweigh the risks

of pesticides.

But why accept any risk at all when you can choose organic?

Test tube studies suggest organic produce may be more health-promoting.

For example, a peer to suppress the growth of cancer cells better than conventional

berries.

There appears to be no consistent differences in the level of vitamins and minerals in

organic versus conventional grown produce, but organic fruits and vegetables have more

phenolic phytonutrients.

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