How Not to Die

A deep dive into How Not to Die by Michael Greger. Ranked by their weight in deaths and disabilities in the United States, the risk factors put a poor diet at the top, ahead of tobacco. Exercise matters, but less than people assume: physical inactivity ranks only tenth and eleventh, whereas a low quality plate remains, by a wide margin, the leading killer, followed by cigarettes. Most premature deaths and disabilities are therefore decided by what goes on the plate each day, long before the genes. The primary reason diseases seem to run in families is that diets run in families. The resemblance in health fate between parents and children owes… Read the full summary and listen to more books on Synopsia: https://synopsia.app