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The How Not to Die Cookbook

Over 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease
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From the author of the international bestseller How Not To Die, Dr Michael Greger presents The How Not To Die Cookbook, a beautifully illustrated collection of over 100 plant-based recipes. Combining groundbreaking nutritional science with everyday ingredients, this cookbook offers delicious, easy-to-follow meals designed to prevent and reverse major diseases like heart disease and cancer. Using food as medicine, it provides a sustainable guide to eating for better health and longevity.
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Ideal for anyone interested in plant-based cooking, health-conscious readers, and those seeking scientific guidance on preventing disease through diet. Suitable for cooks looking to incorporate nutritious, evidence-based meals into their everyday routines.

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An illustrated cookbook of recipes to help reverse and prevent disease, from the author of the international bestseller How Not To Die.

An illustrated cookbook of recipes to help reverse and prevent disease, from the author of the international bestseller How Not To Die.

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Dr Michael Greger reveals the foods that will help you live longer - Daily Mail

From the author of the international bestseller How Not To Die comes The How Not to Die Cookbook—a lavish, beautifully illustrated cookbook full of delicious recipes based on the groundbreaking nutritional science of the original book.

Dr Michael Greger, founder of the wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, takes his comprehensive, lifesaving science into the kitchen. Why suffer from disease and ill health when the right food is proven to keep you healthy and without the side effects of drugs? We can avoid heart disease, cancer, and our other biggest killers if we use food as medicine, and The How Not to Die Cookbook offers a sustainable and delicious guide to preparing and eating the foods that will prevent and reverse fatal disease.

Featuring over 100 easy-to-follow, beautifully photographed plant-based recipes, The How Not to Die Cookbook merges cutting edge science with everyday ingredients from the supermarket to help you and your family eat your way to better health and a longer life.

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Daily Mail praises Dr Greger for revealing the foods that will help you live longer. Reviews for How Not To Die highlight the book as brimming with valuable insights and beneficial for vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike (Financial Times). Experts like Brian Wendel of Forks Over Knives and Rip Esselstyn commend the groundbreaking science and transformative approach to nutrition presented by Dr Greger.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529010817

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bluebird

Contributors:

  • With Gene Stone

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 812g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Michael Greger, M.D., is a physician, author, and internationally recognised speaker on a number of important public health issues. He is the author of the international bestseller, How Not to Die and he runs NutritionFacts.org, the first science-based, non-commercial website to provide free daily videos and articles on the latest discoveries in nutrition. Gene Stone has written many books on animal protection and plant-based nutrition, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Forks Over Knives. He has also co-written the bestsellers How Not to Die, The Engine 2 Diet and Living the Farm Sanctuary Life.

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