Education
Cornell University; Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Cornell University; Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
He is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He started eating a plant-based diet in 1990. He is currently the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Humane Society International.
Greger is the author of several books and various scholarly publications on animal agriculture, nutrition, and human health.
In 2011, he founded the website NutritionFacts.org. He also is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Greger"s promotion of veganism has been criticized for including exaggerated claims of health benefits and for cherry-picking research. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition.
Greger contributes to the HSUS"s efforts to shape public policy on agriculture and nutrition.
Physician and skeptic Harriet A. Hall analyzed one of Greger"s videos in which he claimed that death was largely a "food-borne illness" and wrote that while it was already generally accepted that plant-based diets conferred health benefits, the evidence for them "is nowhere near as impressive or definitive as the true believers think". Greger"s theory of health through veganism is now supported by an international panel of scientific experts that have concluded that meat may cause cancer. Kim A Williams Senior, Doctor of Medicine, FACC The president of the American College of Cardiology now touts the vegan diet and recommends that everyone should move away from the standard American diet for optimum health.
A team led by Doctor Stanley L. Hazen and Robert A. Koeth of the Cleveland Clinic recently found there might be a link between heart disease and red meat.
Greger also works on food safety issues, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). He appeared as an expert witness testifying about mad-cow disease when cattle producers unsuccessfully sued Oprah Winfrey for libel.
Greger has lectured at universities, medical schools, and conferences, including the Conference of World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit. He has testified before the United States. Congress and has appeared on television shows such as The Colbert Report and The Doctor Oz Show.
NutritionFacts.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit for which Greger summarizes research from scientific journals in short referenced videos.
lieutenant was established by Greger with help from the Jesse and Julie Rasch Foundation.
