Michael Greger, M.D. On How Not To Die

This was the study that put it all together and found the 34,000 cancer deaths a year are linked to processed meat consumption. But that same study that's been quoted in all these things found that 840,000 people overall die from processed meat because it contributes to high blood pressure, kidney disease, all these other things ... What about the other 800,000?! There's like a meat-borne epidemic every year of people dying from processed meat!

For traditional nutrients, like vitamins and minerals, there's actually no benefit from organic versus conventional across the board, on average. However, for the kind of non-traditional nutrients, like the phenolics and some of these phytonutrients, they do have significantly more in the organic versus conventional, but we're talking like 20% more—and organic food may be 20% or more expensive. So, you get the same amount per dollar, conventional versus versus organic.

There's only one diet ever been shown to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients, only one: a plant-based diet. If that's all a plant-based diet could do, reverse our number one killer, shouldn't that be the default diet until proven otherwise?

All the microbiome stuff is just blowing my mind ... Only about 1 out of 10 cells in our body is actually human ... [The microbiome] has tremendous power over everything from our mental status to our immune system.

On a dollar per nutrient basis, then good foods win out across the board.