According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), seven of the top 10 causes of death in 2010 were due to chronic diseases. Meanwhile, an extensive body of scientific research, published in top indexed medical journals like the JAMA Internal Medicine and American Journal of Cardiology, indicates that the standard American diet is predominantly responsible for these diseases and that a whole-foods, plant-based diet successfully prevents them. Medical schools nonetheless fail to teach about, and doctors fail to prescribe, a whole-foods, plant-based diet, with the result that millions of Americans have died, and continue to die, unnecessarily.