Michael Greger
Michael Greger | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 25, 1972 |
| Education | Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Tufts University School of Medicine |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | General practitioner |
| Field | Clinical nutrition |
| Notable works | Videos and publications at NutritionFacts.org |
| Website | www |
Michael Herschel Greger (born 25 October 1972) is an American physician, author, and professional speaker on public health issues. He is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He started eating a plant-based diet in 1990. He is currently the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Humane Society International. Greger is the author of several books and various scholarly publications on animal agriculture, nutrition, and human health. In 2011, he founded the website NutritionFacts.org. He also is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.[1][non-primary source needed]
Career and advocacy
Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. Greger contributes to the HSUS's efforts to shape public policy on agriculture and nutrition.[2][non-primary source needed]
He also works on food safety issues, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). He appeared as an expert witness testifying about mad-cow disease when cattle producers unsuccessfully sued Oprah Winfrey for libel.[3]
Greger has lectured at universities, medical schools, and conferences,[see lecture list] including the Conference of World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and has appeared on television shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show.
NutritionFacts.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit for which Greger summarizes research from scientific journals in short referenced videos. It was established by Greger with help from the Jesse and Julie Rasch Foundation.
Criticism
Dr. Greger has received praise and endorsements from many physicians, scientists, and leaders in health and wellness. Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution, praised Greger's book, How Not To Die as, "Absolutely the best book I've read on nutrition and diet." John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, stated that, "How Not To Die is one of the most important books on health ever written. Dr. Greger shows us how to prevent and sometimes reverse all the major diseases that are killing us. We have the genetic potential to live disease free lives full of health and vitality until we are past 100. This book is the scientific road map we need to do exactly that." Greger has similarly received positive endorsements from leading physicians and experts in therapeutic nutrition, heart disease reversal, and diabetes reversal, including Joel Fuhrman MD, Caldwell Esselstyn MD, Rip Esselstyn, Brian Wendel, and Kathy Freston.[4]
Physician and skeptic Harriet A. Hall analyzed one of Greger's videos in which he claimed that death was largely a "food-borne illness" and wrote that while it was already generally accepted that plant-based diets conferred health benefits, the evidence for them "is nowhere near as impressive or definitive as the true believers think".[4]
Publications
In 2007, he wrote the book Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, While it received a favorable review in the Journal of Clinical Investigation which said it was "interesting and informative to both scientists and lay persons",[5] public health expert David Sencer was critical of the book, writing that it "focuses heavily on doomsday scenarios and offers little in terms of practical advice to the public" and that "a professional audience would quickly put [the book] aside for more factually correct sources of information".[6]
Greger also wrote Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze (2005) and Heart Failure: Diary of a Third-Year Medical Student (2000). In 2015, he co-wrote How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease with Gene Stone.
See also
References
- ^ About Dr. Michael Greger.
- ^ "Humane Nutrition Presentations : The Humane Society of the United States". www.humanesociety.org. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
- ^ Reda, Bonnie Reda (28 February 2004). "Expert to dissect 'mad cow' disease in presentation". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, NY. p. B.3. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Praise for "How Not To Die". MacMillan. 8 December 2015.
{{cite web}}: Text "accessdate 5 February 2016" ignored (help); Text "author MacMillan Publishers" ignored (help) Cite error: The named reference "sbm" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ Pekosz, Andrew (Sep 4, 2007). "Book Review. Bird flu: A virus of our own hatching". J Clin Invest. 117 (9): 2350–2350. doi:10.1172/JCI33078. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ^ Sencer DJ (2007). "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching". Emerging Infection Diseases (Book review). 13 (11): 1802-1803.