Michael Greger
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| Born | 1972 (age 44–45) |
| Education |
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Tufts University School of Medicine |
| Website | www |
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| Profession | General practitioner |
| Field | Clinical nutrition |
Michael Herschel Greger is an American physician, author, and professional speaker on public health issues, particularly the benefits of a whole foods, plant-based, healthy diet and the harms of eating animal products. He is a vegan and creator of NutritionFacts.org.
Greger went to college at Cornell University School of Agriculture, where as a junior he wrote informally about the dangers of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on a website he published in 1994. In the same year he was hired to work on mad cow issues for Farm Sanctuary, near Cornell, and became a vegan after touring a stockyard as part of his work with Farm Sanctuary. In 1998 he appeared as an expert witness testifying about Bovine spongiform encephalopathy when cattle producers unsuccessfully sued Oprah Winfrey for libel over statements she made about the safety of meat in 1996.
He went to Tufts University School of Medicine, originally for its MD/PhD program, but he withdrew from the dual degree program and only pursued the medical degree. He graduated in 1999 as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. In 2001 he joined Organic Consumers Association to work on mad cow issues and spoke widely on the issue as cases of mad cow appeared in the US and Canada, calling mad cow "The Plague of the 21st Century."
In 2004 he launched a website and published a book critical of the Atkins Diet and other low carb diets.
In 2004, the American College Of Lifestyle Medicine was formed in Loma Linda, and Greger was a founding member as one of the first hundred people to join the organization.
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