How Not To Die

Very informative! It tries (and I think succeeds) to include everything important on nutrition. I especially like the chapters on the most common diseases and the last part about the daily dozen, spices, etc.

This book is my bible. Not only in size but also as my everyday guidance. It took me 1,5 years to finish it (with a lot of small and big breaks in between) after reading it on blinkist first. Even the blinks accomplished to get me fixed on a plant-based whole food diet and combined with two documentaries "Forks over knifes" and "What the health?!" this book accomplished something I never could on my own for the last five years: to completely change to a plant-based diet. As a nurse I appreciated the evidence based argumentation and the simple to understand but still scientific explanations to every single point he is trying to make. I have to admit, that I read the second part about the variety of foods and their nutritional value first, as I could implement that new found knowledge right away in my everyday life. But after that I started to read the first part where he starts with common diseases and then reverses back to their connections with our intake of animal products. There was not one chapter that I didn't take notes of and I'm starting right now to re-read these notes from the beginning again. There is so much valuable information in it - it's almost impossible to keep everything in mind, so I will continue to get out my notes every few months from now on. This is not a highly recommended read. It's a must read!

Kurzrezension: Bestes Buch in Bezug auf Ernährung und krankheitsauslösende Themata. Kein erhobener Zeigefinger, sondern fundierte Fakten - auch gerne mit einer Spritze Humor. Aber wie immer stellt sich heraus, dass pflanzliche Ernährung der Schlüssel zu allem ist. Empfehlenswert sind die Webseite und die youtube Videos, wenn einem das Buch zu wissenschaftlich ist.