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Books like How Not to Die
The best books like How Not to Die are In Defense of Food, The China Study, and Bigger Leaner Stronger. How Not to Die by Michael Greger is about nutrition, disease prevention, plant-based diet. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - The China Study
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T. Colin Campbell · Health
The China Study is T.
Shares nutrition and plant-based diet with How Not to Die.
Read the summary → - Bigger Leaner Stronger
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Michael Matthews · Health
Bigger Leaner Stronger is Michael Matthews's practical guide to building a lean, muscular physique through evidence-based strength training and flexible dieting.
Both dig into nutrition.
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- The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Michael Pollan · Health
The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Eat to Live
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Joel Fuhrman · Health
Joel Fuhrman, a family physician specializing in nutritional medicine, built Eat to Live around a single equation: Health equals nutrients divided by calories, or H = N/C.
Shares disease prevention and plant-based diet with How Not to Die.
Read the summary → - Anticancer: A New Way of Life
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David Servan-Schreiber · Health
Anticancer is David Servan-Schreiber's account of his own experience with brain cancer, diagnosed when he was thirty-one, and what he learned over fifteen years about the lifestyle and environmental factors that feed or suppress tumor growth.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - Bad Pharma
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Ben Goldacre · Health
Bad Pharma is Ben Goldacre's sustained indictment of the pharmaceutical industry's manipulation of clinical trial evidence, and of the regulatory and academic institutions that have failed to stop it.
Both dig into evidence-based medicine.
Read the summary → - Food Rules
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Michael Pollan · Health
Food Rules is Michael Pollan's shortest and most direct book: sixty-four simple rules for eating, distilled from his longer works and from the accumulated wisdom of food cultures around the world.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia · Health
Peter Attia's Outlive is a book about how most people approach longevity backwards.
Both dig into longevity.
Read the summary → - The Blue Zones
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Dan Buettner · Health
The Blue Zones is Dan Buettner's investigation into five geographic regions where people live measurably longer and healthier lives than global averages: Sardinia (Italy), Okinawa (Japan), Loma Linda (California), the Nicoya Peninsula (Costa Rica), and Ikaria (Greece).
Both dig into longevity.
Read the summary → - The Longevity Paradox
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Steven R. Gundry · Health
Steven Gundry is a cardiac surgeon turned functional medicine physician who built his practice around the hypothesis that gut microbiome health is the central driver of aging and age-related disease.
Both dig into longevity.
Read the summary → - The Paleo Solution
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Robb Wolf · Health
The Paleo Solution is Robb Wolf's argument that most chronic disease — obesity, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, cardiovascular disease — traces back to a mismatch between the foods modern humans eat and the foods our genome evolved to process.
Both dig into nutrition.
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Books like How Not to Die: quick answers
What are the best books like How Not to Die?
The best books like How Not to Die by Michael Greger are In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with How Not to Die, such as nutrition, disease prevention, plant-based diet.
What should I read after How Not to Die?
A natural next read after How Not to Die is In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. Both dig into nutrition. Other strong choices are The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
What books are similar to How Not to Die by Michael Greger?
How Not to Die centers on nutrition, disease prevention, plant-based diet. Books with a similar feel include In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
