On this day in vegan history · October 25, 1972
Michael Greger Is Born
A doctor born in Miami would spend his career trying to talk people out of heart disease with nothing but citations.
The facts
- Born
- October 25, 1972, in Miami, Florida
- MD
- 1999, Tufts University School of Medicine
- NutritionFacts.org founded
- 2011, with seed funding from the Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation
- How Not to Die published
- 2015; became a New York Times best seller
Michael Herschel Greger was born on October 25, 1972, in Miami, Florida. He later said he decided to become a doctor at age nine, after watching his grandmother recover using diet and lifestyle changes recommended by nutritionist Nathan Pritikin. Greger earned his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1999 and spent years touring hospitals and universities with public-health lectures before founding NutritionFacts.org in 2011, a nonprofit that turns peer-reviewed nutrition research into short, free videos. His 2015 book How Not to Die became a New York Times best seller and carried that citation-heavy style of nutrition advice into the mainstream.
In their words
The day in the words of the people who were there. Every quote is verbatim, and every source links out so you can check it.
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cut through the hype
Michael Greger, describing his aim for NutritionFacts.org
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NutritionFacts.org, About page
Source: NutritionFacts.org
Why it still matters
Greger built one of the largest free libraries of diet science on the internet, and made the case for plant-based eating with footnotes instead of guilt, in a field usually run on hype.
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