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Dr Greger on Lifestyle Medicine
28 Oct 2020
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A series of videos by Dr Greger shedding light on various aspects of Lifestyle Medicine, an emerging discipline within medicine in USA. Also see Resources for Clinicians.
(2013) Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease

(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "If doctors can eliminate some of our leading killers by treating the underlying causes of chronic disease better than nearly any other medical intervention, why don't do it?"

(2015) Physicians May Be Missing Their Most Important Tool

(5 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "What might happen if nutritional excellence were taught in medical school?"

(2014) Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine

(3 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "An editorial by the Director of Yale's Prevention Research Center on putting a face on the tragedy of millions suffering and dying from chronic diseases that could be prevented, treated, and reversed if doctors inspired lifestyle changes in their patients."

(2014) Lifestyle Medicine Is the Standard of Care for Prediabetes

(4 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Lifestyle modification is considered the foundation of diabetes prevention. What dietary strategies should be employed, and why don't more doctors use them?"

(2014) Barriers to Heart Disease Prevention

(3 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "According to the Director of the famous Framingham Heart Study, the best way to manage cholesterol and heart disease risk is with a more plant-based diet. Why then, don't more doctors advise their patients to change their diets?"

(2016) How Smoking in 1959 Is Like Eating in 2019

(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Given that diet is the number-one cause of death and disability, nutrition is surely the number-one subject taught in medical school, right? And it's certainly the number-one issue your doctor talks with you about, right? If only. How can there be such a disconnect between the available evidence and the practice of medicine?"

(2014) Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased?

(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Evidence-based medicine may ironically bias medical professionals against the power of dietary intervention."

(2013) The McGovern Report

(7 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The story behind the first U.S. dietary recommendations report explains why, to this day, the decades of science supporting a more plant-based diet have yet to fully translate into public policy."

(2011) The Tomato Effect

(5 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Why does the medical establishment sometimes ignore highly efficacious therapies, such as plant-based diets, for heart disease prevention and treatment?"

(2015) Optimal Diet: Just Give It to Me Straight, Doc

(3 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Why is there a reticence to provide the public with guidelines that will spare them from preventable disease and premature death?"

(2014) What Diet Should Physicians Recommend?

(3 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Kaiser Permanente, the largest U.S. managed care organization, publishes patient education materials to help make plant-based diets the 'new normal' for patients and physicians."

(2014) Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment

(4 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "When doctors withhold dietary treatment options from cardiac patients, they are violating the cornerstone of medical ethics, informed consent."

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