Quotes About Diet

And a full 70 percent of American adults and 40 percent of kids are overweight.

Traditional cultures always preferred the organs of animals, high in fat.

consumption of flour, which raises blood sugar more than table sugar does, is

One can of soda a day increases a child's risk of becoming obese by 60 percent.

Calories are important. But it isn't the amount of calories as much as the type of calories you consume that makes a difference in terms of how much you weigh and how healthy you are.

The most important thing you can do for healthy aging is to balance your blood sugar and keep your insulin levels low and your cells insulin-sensitive, which means eating a low-sugar, low-starch diet with plenty of good-quality fats and protein, and a boatload of phytochemical- and fiber-rich fruits and vegetables.

10 percent of Americans are deficient in vitamin C and actually have scurvy. More than 90 percent are deficient in omega-3 fats, 80 percent are low in vitamin D, and 45 percent are deficient in magnesium and iron, with folate and zinc not far behind. Lack of these nutrients moves us rapidly down the trajectory of disease and aging.

Saturated fat, for instance, is bad when eaten with carbohydrates, but when eaten alone, not so much.

The quality of our diet matters most.

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If we accepted the recommendation of the American Heart Association that we eat less than 5 percent of our calories as saturated fat, we would have to ban breast milk. (It contains a whopping 25 percent of its calories as saturated fat.)

saturated fat seems to promote inflammation only in the presence of too many carbs or too little fiber, or there is no connection at all.25 (The key to eating more fat, as you'll learn in Part III, is also eating more f

PGX (a special fiber to lower blood sugar, insulin, and cholesterol levels)

It loves cranberry, pomegranate, olives, prickly pear, and green tea! Stimulating the growth of just this one bacterium is associated with reduction in body weight, oxidative stress, and intestinal and liver inflammation and improved insulin sensitivity.

The conversation has changed now that science has proven that processed foods—and especially sugar—are addictive.

Food is not just a source of energy or calories. Food is information. It contains instructions that affect every biological function of your body. It is the stuff that controls everything. Food affects the expression of your genes (determining which ones get triggered to cause or prevent disease) and influences your hormones, brain chemistry, immune system, gut flora, and metabolism at every level. It works fast, in real time with every bite. This is the groundbreaking science of nutrigenomics.

carb diet leads to a faster metabolism and sustained weight loss.

When we combine foods that are high in nutrients, we naturally eat less, even with hungry fat cells. The key here is that nutrient-dense foods (real whole foods) are satisfying, while processed empty foods (nutrient-poor foods) are less satisfying, even though they may contain more calories! This

if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. This seems perfectly logical. The problem? It's not true.

And food is the biggest "environmental" regulator of that complex system we call our bodies.

For instance, the first study linking saturated fats to heart disease, by Ancel Keys (on which 50 years of dietary policy to eat low-fat was based), looked at only about thirty men from Crete and their previous day's diet, and linked that to the fact that they had fewer heart attacks than people from countries where more saturated fat was consumed.

In other words, it is not how much you eat but what you eat that controls the metabolic switches.

Even if you consume less food and fewer calories, when you eat excess carbs or sugar, you trigger insulin, which turns on a fat-production factory in the liver and your fat-storage system, and you gain

Incluso fui vegetariano estricto durante un tiempo y, moralmente hablando, debería seguir siéndolo: es la única posición moral coherente con respecto a los animales. Sin embargo, aunque no soy tan malo como podría ser, tampoco soy tan bueno como debería.