Living longer: Prevention is better than the cure

Current lifestyles have normalised being motionless in front of a screen eating junk, says Suzanne Harrington.

When Dr Michael Greger was a child, his grandmother Frances Greger was sent home from hospital in a wheelchair to die. She was 65, and had terminal heart disease. At home, waiting to die, she saw something on television about a pioneering approach to reversing heart disease via exercise and nutrition. Specifically, whole food plant based (WFPB) nutrition.

The dying woman became a live-in patient of the ground breaking American nutritionist Nathan Pritikin, one of his “death’s door patients”, and made a full recovery. She eventually died aged 96.