Concise Reading

Summaries, such as this, are an excellent tool for discerning readers who don't wish to waste time and money on a disappointing purchase. This is excellent summary! Don’t expect all the detail (including recipes) but do expect a concise summary of content that would provide the means to make well informed purchase should you choose to do so. I now understand both the content of the book and research Dr. Gundry based his recommendations on and came away feeling it merited further research on the topic and perhaps a purchase of the book and its companion cookbook.… (meer)

This is a short summarization of the healthy living nonfiction book, How Not to Die. It contains the basic facts and need-to-know info from the book, without lengthy explanations or overwhelming scientific jargon, and it gets across the point of a 576 page book very nicely in only 40 pages. This was a quick read, and surprisingly it was quite informative, to the point of recommending different foods and herbs for different disorders and sometimes even giving the suggested dosage. It is a stand-alone book, and does not need to be read alongside Dr. Michael Greger's How Not to Die, although for those interested in reading the complete book it contains a link to buy it.

The basis of both books is that by living a healthy lifestyle, eating a proper diet, exercising regularly, and staying away from doctors as much as possible, you can live a longer and more fulfilling life. Each chapter is dedicated to a different common "killer", including heart disease, cancers, brain diseases, infections, High Blood Pressure, diabetes, suicidal depression, Parkinson's, kidney disease, and many more. Each chapter discusses what causes the disease, how to avoid it, and how to prevent and possibly cure it.

I liked a lot of what I read in this book... however, I have two problems with it that knock my rating down a star. I disagreed with Dr. Greger's pro-vaccination and anti-animal products views. As one respected nutrition writer once said of this book, "Greger cherry-picked scientific studies to support his main thesis, and thus understated the beneficial effects of moderate meat and seafood consumption." However, because I learned useful information from this book and agree with the majority of it, I would still give this book four stars.… (meer)