Quotes from Mark Hyman

Today, two slices of whole-wheat bread can raise your blood sugar more than two tablespoons of table sugar can.

Thinking the way you've always thought and doing things you've always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!

How we eat, how much we exercise, how we manage stress, our exposure to environmental and food-based toxins, and the structural violence or "obesogenic environment" that influences these factors are what is truly driving our diabesity epidemic.

We all have different needs for food, vitamins, rest, exercise, stress tolerance, or ability to handle toxins.

The average American child has consumed 7½ pounds of chemicals by the age of five.

The way modern medicine operates is like trying to diagnose what's wrong with your car by listening to the noises it makes instead of looking under the hood.

And there are just a few "ingredients" needed to make a healthy human—real, whole, fresh food, nutrients (vitamins and minerals), light, water, air, sleep, movement, rhythm, love, connection, meaning, and purpose.

Our bread is not what it used to be. It is more of a Frankenfood, a by-product of industrial agriculture or "super-starch and super-gluten." Combine that with the damage our guts have suffered from our diet, environment, lifestyle, and overuse of antibiotics, acid blockers, and anti-inflammatories, and you have the perfect storm for gluten intolerance.

We now know—because it has been scientifically proven—that sugar is more powerfully addictive than alcohol, cocaine, or even heroin (and if you're thinking about going for diet soda instead, take note: Artificial sweeteners may be more addictive than regular sugar).

Your zip code is a bigger determinant of your health outcomes than your genetic code.

Monsanto's herbicide Roundup has been linked to cancer.20 The World Health Organization released a statement that glyphosate (Roundup) is a "probable carcinogen" in humans.21

Read ingredients lists and don't eat anything with the word "hydrogenated" on the label.

Negative lifestyle choices and high job stress led me down a path of alcohol and nicotine abuse, and eventually open heart surgery.

It is a veritable revolving door of jobs between the USDA and Big Ag and Big Food. Americans should insist on the establishment of a new Department of Food run through the Department of Health and Human Services, which is paying for the consequences of harmful dietary recommendations through Medicare and Medicaid. In

This starts with personal action and community organization. Creating a healthier world is a revolutionary act, one you can start right now.

We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The history and failure of Keys' diet-heart hypothesis, that fat is bad, is well documented in Nina Teicholz's book, The Big Fat Surprise.

Certain foods have high levels, including artichokes, asparagus, plantains, seaweed, and more. All fiber-rich foods will help keep your inner garden healthy—vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and beans.

Even though we know that artificial sweeteners actually cause type 2 diabetes22 and weight gain, slow metabolism, increase hunger,23 and alter gut flora or bacteria to promote obesity and type 2 diabetes,24 they are still recommended by the ADA, diabetes doctors, and registered dietitians. That's right. Artificial sweeteners make you fat and diabetic!

we didn't know that HDL, triglycerides, and the size of your LDL (bad cholesterol) mattered more than total cholesterol.

If exercise could be put in a pill, it might be the most powerful health-promoting longevity strategy ever.

ways to boost testosterone naturally are to eat good fats, including saturated fat (all sex hormones are made from cholesterol); engage in stress-reduction practices, such as meditation; and do strength training.

Every time you take a bite of food, consider that you are programming your biology for health or disease. When you eat healthy food, you are, in fact, eating medicine.

My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols such as xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.