How Not to Die Hits the Shelves

On December 8, 2015, Flatiron Books published "How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease," written by physician Michael Greger with Gene Stone. The book walks through the fifteen leading causes of death in the United States, chapter by chapter, laying out the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet can prevent or reverse most of them. It closes with Greger's "Daily Dozen," a checklist of foods he argues people should eat every day. The book became a New York Times bestseller and, for years afterward, was the thing people handed a newly curious friend or relative instead of trying to argue them into veganism.