Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Common Diseases with Diet

The connection between our food choices and disease treatment. Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our leading causes of death and disability. This is Dr. Greger's 2015 live presentation. New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-... and he'll try to answer it! Recorded live at the University of Pittsburgh on July 11, 2015 thanks to NAVS and Aaron Wissner. Image Credit: Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Steven Jackson, Leon Keller, and DES Daughter via Flickr; 18percentgrey, Rostislav Sedláček, and Anna Liebiedieva via 123rf; Nmajik, Gajda-13, and Brian Arthur via Wikimedia Commons; and OpenPics and Bambo via Pixabay. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org 0:00 Introduction 1:30 Lung and colon cancer 6:40 Protein and cancer 11:30 Heme iron and cancer 15:20 Dairy and hormones in meat 20:48 Heart disease and cholesterol 26:21 Arthritis and inflammatory food 30:10 Stroke and high blood pressure 36:03 Best diet for hypertension 39:30 Diabetes and vision loss 48:13 Alzheimer's disease 54:46 Best diet for disease prevention and reversal 1:05:45 Conflicts of interest in medical profession