Quotes from Joel Fuhrman

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

Regardless of whether we are required to purchase medical insurance, know that we can only buy real health insurance in the produce section of the local supermarket.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.

Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.

Chemicals are not currently tested for their endocrine disruption potential before they are approved for use and enter our environment, and there are endocrine disruptors in a vast array of products we come into contact with every day, including organochlorine pesticides, plastics, fuels, and other industrial chemicals.

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.