After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researchers found those who consume a plant-based diet were less likely to develop all forms of cancer combined.

— Michael Greger

A good way to adjust to a healthier diet is to think of three meals you enjoy that are largely plant-based. Pasta with tomato sauce can be tweaked to whole-grain pasta with added vegetables.

— Michael Greger

Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

— Michael Greger

A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of calciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behavior and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

— Michael Greger

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

— Michael Greger

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

— Michael Greger

As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

— Michael Greger

Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.

— Michael Greger

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

— Michael Greger

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

— Michael Greger