New from Michael Greger M.D., FACLM, whose books have sold more than one million copies worldwide, comes a fully-illustrated cookbook filled with recipes to make you healthier as you age.
In his instant New York Times bestseller, How Not To Age, Dr. Michael Greger revealed that diet can regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. His Anti-Aging Eight streamlined evidence-based research into simple, accessible steps for ensuring physical and mental longevity. Now, in How Not To Age Cookbook, decades of scientific research are put to use in over a hundred recipes that will leave readers feeling nourished for years to come.
Each of these simple, nutrition-packed dishes uses ingredients that have been proven to promote a healthy lifespan and inspiration from the places around the world where people traditionally live the longest. Grounded in the latest nutrition science, How Not to Age Cookbook is chock-full of delicious meals, snacks, and beverages that will keep the body both nourished and youthful.
Dr. Greger is a physician, New York Times Best-Selling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues.
A graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. He is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award in 2017 and became a diplomat of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
His books How Not to Die, The How Not to Die Cookbook, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age became instant New York Times Best Sellers. One hundred percent of all proceeds Dr. Greger receives from his books and speaking engagements have always been and will always be donated to charity.
Dr. Greger has appeared in such documentaries as What the Health and You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, and served as an advisor for The Game Changers. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and was an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous “meat defamation trial.” He often speaks at engagements across the United States and abroad, and has delivered presentations at TEDx, Google, The World Bank, and the Conference on World Affairs. He has been featured on countless media outlets to deliver life-saving nutrition research to the public. See more on our Press page.
4.2⭐️ A great companion recipe book for Gregor’s “How Not to Age” book. If you haven’t yet read that book, no worries because he does a nice job of summarizing the premise before diving into the recipes. He even addresses some frequent important questions around salt, sweeteners and using teflon and aluminum products in cooking.
🩺 As someone who has been on a path the reversing my chronic health issues, this is definitely the type of cookbook I look for. Well researched, lot’s of yummy recipe ideas (but not so many that it’s overwhelming), and all focused within keeping your gut healthy.
👩🏻🍳 Each recipe starts off with portion, difficulty level, and directions. There are some pictures, but not for every recipe. Here’s a sampling of recipes and categories: —Simple Prep: broth, spice blends, +5 —Breakfast: blackberry mango smoothie bowls, baked carrot cake oatmeal, +7 —Snacks, Dips, Spreads: deviled potatoes, lemony spinach tahini dip, +7 —Soups: chickpea and kale soup, spicy black bean and tomato soup, +7 —Salads & Dressing: purple cabbage sale with Thai lime dressing, cucumber salad with grape tomatoes, +7 —Burgers & Wraps: spicy tempeh fajitas with ranch dressing, black bean burritos with tomato salsa, +6 —Pastas: Spaghetti with Mushroom Bolognese, White Bean Mac & Cheese with Grape Tomatoes and Peas, +7 —Vegetable Mains: Kabocha Squash with Black Rice and Beans, Winter Vegetable Stew, +5 —Bean Cuisine: Pinto Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas, Red Bean and Tempeh Jambalaya, +7 —Great Grains: Three-Grain Loaf, Turmeric Quinoa with Broccoli, Chickpeas, and Tomatoes, +7 —Sides: Roasted Root Vegetables with Balsamic Syrup, Garlicky Mashed Potatoes with Chard, +8 —Sweets: mixed berry crumble, blueberry chia pie, +7 (sooo many yummy ones!)
🥼 He also includes a section with lists of what he uses daily, keeps in his freezer and uses for travel; as well as tips for techniques like braising, steaming tempeh, using the pressure cooker for beans. The last few pages of the book are ALL the references he used for the recipes, health info, FAQ’s and more. Tons of references for those that appreciate a well-researched book.
💭 Ok, so my personal thoughts. I will definitely be using this book for new healthy recipes. I love the research and mindset behind these recipes, and having some “go-to” ingredients to make grocery shopping and dinner making easier. As picky as I can be, there are a lot of recipes that sound yummy, so I’m excited to give some of these a try!
Thanks to NetGalley, Flatiron Books, and Michael Greger, MD FACLM for providing me with a complimentary ARC to review.
I really enjoyed this cookbook and received it in digital form through Netgalley. I will be purchasing the physical form. I just love flipping through cookbooks, getting inspired by recipes, and of course collect them! I especially liked the recipes that involved various ways to make vegetables fun and delicious. I am not vegan but we do like making a vegan meal at least once a week. I did not particularly enjoy the cheesy sauce. The white bean cassoulet and two lentil dal were favorites. I did not try to make any of the desserts; they just didn’t interest me. Some of the recipes seem like a lot because of the list of ingredients but it really isn’t that daunting in the process. I would have liked more recipes without miso paste which seemed to be a common ingredient. I do recommend this cookbook if you’re looking for some new creative healthy recipes.
There is such an overwhelming amount of information about how to stay healthy and it's genuinely impossible to follow every single guideline. As much as I value Dr. Greger's research and advice, I feel like I fall short of his expectations, I feel inadequate and doomed to fail. But, I still appreciate the information and will hold onto as much as I can as I navigate life and what I put in my body, and he offers a lot of delicious looking options that don't seem too challenging.
I haven’t read the companion book “How Not To Age” before this, but I can see that it could be beneficial to have some “back story” on the principles. This cookbook does cover some basics of the program, and I found them informative. I like the idea that the pathways to aging could be regulated through diet. It makes total sense to me that what we eat has an undeniable impact on our bodies outcome.
The recipes are rated for their difficulty which is helpful. I do a lot of cooking, but still found a good portion of them to be more effort than I want (or have time) to do. However, I found 3 recipes I wanted to put to the test right away. The first was the Mixed Berry Crumble with frozen berries and a few necessary modifications needed for me and found it to be delicious and a nice breakfast choice….even though it was in the Sweets chapter. I also made the Blackbean Burgers that was actually a “modification note” in the Lentil-Walnut Burgers recipe. I would say they were “ok good”, but not as flavorful as I expected for the amount of ingredients. Another taste tester in the house did not think they had much flavor either. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them to stay together well to use for leftover burgers. But I feel they can be used crumbled in a salad, or in a bowl mixture with success. Lastly, I tried the Better Pecan Squares. I eat very low added sugar and made these a smidge lower than the recipe that called for date sugar/syrup. My banana may not have been ripe enough, but the overall taste didn’t impress me…but they are growing on me.
I really liked the modification notes for many recipes that adds even more variety and choices for readers/cooks. And, actually all 3 recipes I made utilized the food processor which I found nice in a “one bowl” kind of way. As someone who reads LOTS of cookbooks, this one had easy to follow instructions and the ingredients were listed in order of use which is a deal-breaker for me.
I’m looking forward to trying more recipes such as Spaghetti with Mushroom Bolognese, Pinto Beans with Sweet Potatoes Enchiladas, and Braised Red Cabbage with Apples and Walnuts.
I received an advanced copy in ebook form that was difficult to read at times because of the formatting. I’m not going to count that against the book in rating because I’m sure the final copy is much better. And the print copy will not have those kinds of issues. Honestly, I find ebook cookbooks less than ideal to use.
I would recommend this book for readers looking for information to improve health outcomes through diet with recipes that support those recommendations. I’m always looking for new recipes to try to increase nutrition on a daily basis, but in a tasty way and this book provides many options.
I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
The book has bits of information in boxes concerning nutrition, types of common utensils which may leach harmful ingredients into food, substitutions, or related simple and healthful snacks. There are extra chapters for things to have on hand, things to make in advance to use in various recipes over a few weeks that are ingredients in other recipes, and instructions for various cooking techniques. Although I have been cooking healthy meals for years, I got some new suggestions.
The book is well-referenced. However, it kind of lost me when it started talking about “leaky gut syndrome”, whether aluminum is safe (it’s the most plentiful metal of the earth’s crust), and artificial sweeteners are equally bad as sugar when it comes to calorie intake or blood sugars? REALLY!
Combined with it being a vegetarian cookbook, with many recipes calling for esoteric ingredients had me a bit skeptical. It’s true that the typical American diet uses too many animal-based ingredients, humans are omnivores, and we should have a small amount of meat, eggs, or dairy. As a book featuring plant-based diets, I was disappointed in that it did not discuss each of the essential amino acids and the incomplete proteins found in plants – and how to mix foods as to get complete protein meals. However, the recipes tend to balance the amino acids for the most part.
The author talks about the problem of the supplement industry being almost unregulated – limiting the use of supplements. The author, who is a doctor, does not recommend the use of supplements or procedures. That could be a problem with vitamin B-12, unless one eats at least some animal products some of the time, or gets an appropriate B-12 supplement.
The book is well organized as to the chapters. Each recipe has a beautiful picture of the prepared recipe, and they all look delicious.
I was so excited to see this cookbook pop up on NetGalley! I have a bunch of tabs in this author's other one, the "How Not To Die" cookbook, which is a hilariously dramatic title. As much as I'd like to say I'm not worried about aging, I'm at the crossroads where I can do the preventative work now to age more healthily.
The thing I appreciate most about this cookbook, is how easy it is to make substitutions. I'm not vegan, but I don't eat meat or dairy often just out of habit and cost prevention. Also, most of the recipes mention optional additions and fun facts about certain ingredients.
At the top of each, there's a 'makes X servings' call out as well as a difficulty rating. This is amazing for people like me who are newer to cooking. Nearly every recipe has a photo as well, which is always a plus for me.
The soup section is absolute gold, I will be bookmarking so many pages once the physical book is available. And there is an entire section on beans (!!!)
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and author for my advanced digital copy!
Menghadirkan lebih dari 100 resep lezat yang penuh dengan nutrisi, buku masak ini memberikan panduan praktis untuk membantu tubuh tetap sehat dan muda lebih lama. Dengan pendekatan berbasis penelitian ilmiah, resep-resepnya dirancang untuk memaksimalkan umur panjang dan kesehatan mental. Terinspirasi oleh pola makan di wilayah dengan tingkat harapan hidup tertinggi, buku ini menawarkan makanan yang tidak hanya lezat, tetapi juga mendukung penuaan sehat. Dengan menyajikan bahan-bahan yang telah terbukti memberikan manfaat kesehatan jangka panjang, buku ini adalah panduan ideal untuk hidup lebih sehat dan lebih lama.
The How Not to Age Cookbook is a wonderful companion to the book How Not to Age by Dr. Michael Greger. I can see myself making many of the recipes in it. Most have minimum ingredients and aren't too much of a hassle to prepare. The only thing I didn't like was the lack of tofu and seitan recipes. There were many recipes containing tempeh, which I have tried cooking six ways to Sunday and have rarely liked. Tempeh is a soy product, and Dr. Gregor also includes recipes using soy milk in this book, so I'm not sure why he seems to have an aversion to tofu. Other than those minor quibbles, I really like this whole food, plant-based cookbook.
Thanks to Flatiron Books and NetGalley for a review copy of The How Not to Age Cookbook.
3.5 stars. Got the ebook version. I'm a huge fan of Dr. Gregor and I enjoyed the How Not to Age book. However, there were only a handful of recipes here in the cookbook I'll be trying. If you're not familiar with Dr Greger and his books/cookbooks, I'd highly recommend them. After 10 yrs as a vegetarian and the past 11× yrs plant based, I pretty much have my favorites and know what I like. The colorful pictures were appetizing and healthy. All look easy to prepare. If you're already plant based, you no doubt have most, if not all, of these ingredients handy. Or else have a substitute that will work just as well. There's plenty of Dr. G's advice at the beginning of the book which is always helpful. This was an easy read, with last 22 pages or so are reference.
I listened to the how not to age book, so this was a great extension to that audiobook. Love the background info and foundational info for this cookbook. It was a great overview. I love the section where the author answers frequently asked questions. The recipes completely align with my diet. This is a great expansion to my current recipes. I loved the three berry groatnola, banana almond French toast, avocado relish, many of the salad dressings, black bean burritos with tomato salsa, cauliflower topped shepherd’s pie, mixed berry crumble and cocoa almond butter cookies! Huge thanks to Flatiron books and Netgalley for allowing me to try and review the recipes in this cookbook!
Thank you, NetGalley and Flat Iron Books, for this ARC. The How Not to Age Cookbook turns the health advice from the How Not to Age book into easy, plant-based recipes. Each dish comes with a "difficulty rating," which is a nice touch for those of us who might be a little challenged in the kitchen. While it's definitely a vegan cookbook (even if it prefers the term "plant-based"), it’s approachable even if you're not strictly vegan. The real test will be seeing how these recipes fare with the meat lovers in my life!
I have the other two books and cookbooks by Dr. Greger, which I love. This one is no different. The recipes are easy to follow and are so tasty. The sweet potato rounds with mango-avocado relish may not sound good at first but it is good! Some of my favorite recipes are Chickpea and Kale Soup, Spicy Black Bean and Tomato Soup, Spinach Mango Salad, Spicy Tempeh Fajitas, and so many more. Definitely check this cookbook out when it publishes.
Thank you to the publisher for giving me an opportunity to review this cookbook.
Thank you Flatiron Books and NetGalley for the advanced electronic review copy of this great book. This very informative volume provides concrete, easy to follow recipes as well as the background information on various health and super foods that helps us stay younger and feel better for as long as possible. All recipes are plant based and each one has a photo of a finished dish. The book is broken down by sections such as breakfasts, snacks, salads, soups, vegetable mains, pasta, sweets, and others. I enjoyed getting ideas from this book and would try some of the recipes in the coming days.
This book is a great addition to the How Not to Age series. Lots of anti aging information to begin the book and how to stay healthy, Then you get a plethora of plant based recipes. While I do not eat a plant based dies there were many yummy recipes and some that had me intrigued because I've never seen that recipe made that way. I have a few of the recipes that I am ready to make. If you are interested in a healthy lifestyle, this book might be a good addition for you.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.
I have appreciated all of Dr Greger's previous books and cookbooks and this one is no different. I find that the background info on the reasons to incorporate these foods along with the beautiful, colorful photos help to inspire me to incorporate more healthful foods into my daily routine. I want to make so many things in this book! Most excited to try some of the dips, soups and dessert recipes! I will be making many of these very soon!
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for early access in exchange for my thoughts.
Dr. Greger created an incredible resource filled with excellent information to motivate me toward a healthier lifestyle. I love the digital copy and will be working through his delicious and simple recipes that use readily available ingredients. Thank you for giving me this great book to use as my guide for 2025! Thank you to Dr. Greger, NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this book.
First calorie and nutritional information should be given for each recipe. Including protein amount. This is important for diabetes 1 and 2 readers. Second, unless i want to stock up on a number of ingredients, the recipes are more complicated than I want to spend time on. I will give miso a try though. I wonder how expensive these recipes are, especially for those on a strict budget, especially those that must resort to food pantries to feed their family.
I use the author's daily dozen app and wanted to learn more about the recipes in this book. What I liked best about this, is that the recipes are largely easy without a ridiculously long list of obscure ingredients.
Looks like I read something similar by the author in 2017 and also rated it well. It was called How Not to Die Cookbook and I thought that was false advertising! Better title here, similar good & healthy recipes.
I have a LOT of vegan cookbooks, and I didn't think I needed another, but after getting a sneak peek at this book, I've preordered it. Robin Robertson's recipes are delicious and nutritious (hello, Cocoa-Almond Butter Cookies!), and she also shares lots of basics like Date Syrup and Vegetable Broth. Dr. Greger has included the essentials of is How Not to Age plan too, so it's like two books in one. This book is a must-have for both newbies and seasoned vegans alike.
Thank you to NetGalley for my advanced digital copy.
Great book filled with strategies and recipes to eat cleaner, be healthier, and live longer. Very well written in an easy to follow format with numerous excellent color photos. The ingredients needed should be readily available in most supermarkets or natural food stores. Two recipes that will be going into my food plan are the Quinoa Pudding with Mango and Green Beans and Grape Tomatoes with Garlic and Pine Nuts!