How Not Die Cookbook Recipes Reviews Summary

Health Benefits

Pros:

• "I have lost 45 lbs in one year, lowered my cholesterol and blood pressure, and feel great!"
• "Eating more vegetables and fruits have a lot of health benefits and making wise choices when it comes to eating is very important to me."
• "Our health can be better if we eat with greater consciousness of what we put in our bodies."
• "Only after a week of applying a Whole Food Plant Based Diet, I began to feel much better since the liver resection surgery 5 months ago."
• "After one month's switch to nearly 100% whole foods plant based (WFPB) diet... we have experienced the following within our family: weight loss, increased energy, healing acne."
• "I’ve followed Dr.Greger's Daily Dozen suggested in HNTD for almost a year. Without counting calories and eating freely I’ve lost twenty pounds."
• "I spend more money to try and get my health back in order after a high blood pressure/cholesterol diagnosis."

Cons:

• "The results can be fatal if you don't take the medication as prescribed."
• "This diet is not doable for anyone who works outside the home or otherwise doesn't have hours to devote to cooking."
• "But despite this all and my pescatarian diet, my latest blood tests showed that my cholesterol was high :( What!!? Why?"
• "A lot of spices are used, and spices are really bad health-wise."
• "But if only 1 tablespoon of the typical 5-12 spicy ingredients contains 26% of the RDA of sodium, I’m out."
• "Mustard and chili peppers should never enter one's mouth--not if you care about the lining of your stomach, etc."
• "I dont recommend using the microwave unless you have to. The microwave is detrimental to your health in the long run."

Recipe Quality

Pros:

• "This is a thoughtful, easy to use cookbook."
• "Simple, easy to follow, delicious recipes all backed by science."
• "The recipes are simple to prepare."
• "The taste is so rich and sophisticated but it’s very easy to make (instructions are very straightforward as well)."
• "Recipes for date syrup, spice blends and condiments make cooking easier."
• "The recipes tend to be easily adaptable so you can add or substitute veggies pretty easily."
• "The recipes are fantastic (whole food, plant based/WFPB)."

Cons:

• "As much as I wanted to love this cookbook, I find making the recipes stress me out."
• "The recipes are all disappointing."
• "The recipes are incredibly bland, and have no flavor whatsoever."
• "Everything I tried so far was disgusting and overly complicated."
• "Worst of all the vegan loaf. All that work and good ingredients wasted it was bland and looks like dog food."
• "I’ve tried a couple of recipes now, hoping somehow I will find just one that isn’t disgusting."
• "The components and seasonings of all the recipes I tried just really don’t go well together at all."

Practicality and Accessibility

Pros:

• "This is a wonderful cookbook full of tons of easy to follow instructions."
• "The recipes are so easy to follow and use ingredients that I can find in my local grocery store."
• "All of the recipes are fairly short and simple."
• "Has a lot of really good recipes and is easy to follow."
• "So I really like that I don't feel like I am buying tons of specialized ingredients for only one recipe."
• "I’ve made more recipes out of this book in the past few weeks than any other new cookbook in the first month."
• "Love this book and everything I’ve made has been great."

Cons:

• "Also, be prepared to spend money...ugh. Especially if your closest grocery store is Publix, 'where eating healthy is expensive'."
• "I really want to like the recipes because I love the concept of eating whole plant foods but every time I make something from this book, it’s either just alright or not good at all."
• "Also, I find that, even more than with most food photography, there is a MASSIVE gap between the photo and how the food looks."
• "There is a quite a bit of prep that I need to get used to."
• "Almost EVERY recipe harkens back to ingredients in the front of the book that you have to spend considerable time making yourself."
• "Good looking meals but unless you have thousands of dollars to stock your spice cabinet and a lot of time to prepare meals, I'd move on to something not so complex."
• "Nobody has enough time to prepare these, and it would cost you a fortune to do so."

Ingredient Concerns

Pros:

• "Want a cookbook that features ingredients that are likely already in your pantry?"
• "All the ingredients are easy to find and you will find great advice both on practical and nutritional sides."
• "Every ingredient in every recipe supports good health rather than being detrimental to health."
• "I am a huge fan of Dr. Greger and I'm happy to have a book full of his recommended way of eating."
• "There are no added oils or fats in the recipes."
• "One of the best cookbooks ever! Perfect balance between recipes and useful information."
• "I’ve made a few recipes out of this cookbook and they have been much tastier than I expected."

Cons:

• "Many of the ingredients are just plain funky, such as miso paste and nutritional yeast."
• "Some of the recipes seem to have a lot of ingredients. The ingredients are also items you wouldn't normally buy."
• "I might also mention the ridiculous list of ingredients that are expensive, and hard to find hurray!"
• "A lot of the required ingredients are either hard to find in regular stores or expensive."
• "Some of the ingredients are very hard to find, especially if you don't live in a major city."
• "Be prepared to shell out your wallet at 'Whole Paycheck' to stock your shelves with the recommended ingredients."
• "Some ingredients are hard to find such white miso."

Authorship and Trust

Pros:

• "Michael Greger’s Book is like an encyclopedia of plant based nutrition data."
• "The introduction addresses why plant based eating is the healthiest and I love all the research done!"
• "Dr Greger educates in the book and on his website by siting studies. Reliable studies."
• "Dr Gregor has put together excellent recipes, and tells you which of his daily dozen the recipe will incorporate."
• "Great vegan recipes from the absolutely best source of health information on the internet - Dr Michael Greger of nutritionfacts.org."
• "100% of the proceeds Dr. Greger receives from all his books is donated to charity."
• "Anything Greger writes is always backed by research."

Cons:

• "His co-authors seems to be professional writers that are using his good reputation to promote them self and their views, while making money off his good reputation - this concerns me."
• "Despite having Dr. greger's name on the cover of this book, he did not write this book."
• "My concern is this maybe changing - the new book recommendations you buy food from Whole Foods and the book seems to reflective the co-authors views."
• "The recipes are for things you can easily find on online blogs."
• "Dr. Greger is a modern day hero. He is a steady voice of reason in a cacophony of chaos regarding health."
• "We are fans of the books by Dr Michael Gregor and NutritionFacts.org, so we had to get this cookbook."
• "I’ve recommended this book to many people no complaints best book ever also good price get hardcover print is bigger."