Quotes About Diet

consumption of omega-3 oils actually counterbalanced the detrimental effect of the omega-6 oils, and cautioned against eating omega-6 oils in the absence of omega-3. I

omega-6 fats fall under the "bad fat" category; they are somewhat pro-inflammatory, and there is evidence that higher consumption of these fats is related to brain disorders. Unfortunately,

the same pathway that turns on BDNF production can be activated by intermittent fasting. We'll

omega-6 fats, which are found in many vegetable oils, including safflower oil, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil; vegetable oil represents the number one source of fat in the American diet. According

hunter-gatherer ancestors consumed omega-6 and omega-3 fats in a ratio of roughly 1:1.

some experts believe our increased consumption of brain-healthy omega-3 fatty acids was responsible for the threefold increase in the size of the human brain). The

Brain dysfunction starts in your daily bread, and I'm going to prove it. I'll state it again because I realize it sounds absurd: Modern grains are silently destroying your brain.

You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that we are getting fatter and fatter every year despite all the information sold to us about how to stay slim and trim. You'd also be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't know about our soaring rates of type 2 diabetes. Or the fact that heart disease is our number one killer, trailed closely by cancer.

Nine times out of ten, people pick the wrong food. No, it's not the sugar (GI = 68), it's not the candy bar (GI = 55), and it's not the banana (GI = 54). It's the whole-wheat bread at a whopping GI of 71, putting it on par with white bread (so

Many factors contribute to the case fatality rate during an outbreak, including diet, economic conditions, public health in general, and the medical care available in the location where an outbreak occurs. It's hard to isolate the inherent ferocity of a virus from those contextual factors.

Across the board, dietary advice typically focuses on what and how much to eat, with remarkably little attention paid to how farming practices influence the nutritional quality of food and whether the "right foods" pack the nutrients they once had.

It appears that the perception of choice may be more important than diet and other factors for health. Choosing in some way to experience stress is less stressful than experiencing stress without a sense of choice or control.

Judge Walter Henderson, better known as Hatchet Henderson, is a large, imposing hulk of a man who stays in shape by adhering to a no-carbohydrate, no-fat, all-lawyer diet. Open and Shut, 2003

the ideas presented in this book culminate a century of research questioning the calorie balance model of obesity, and represent a fundamentally different way to understand why we gain weight and what we can do about it.7

With such limited support, most participants in diet studies don't change their behavior very much, and the comparison groups (for example, people assigned to a low-fat versus a low-carbohydrate diet) don't wind up eating much differently from each other. Not surprisingly, these studies produce very little weight loss in any group.

But are we really to believe that a cup of Coke would be as healthy as a large apple (both with about 100 calories), if we drank it with a serving of Metamucil and a multivitamin pill?

People with major metabolic problems, like severe insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes, may benefit from long-term carbohydrate restriction— to 25 percent of daily calories as in Phase 1 or sometimes even lower. Preliminary studies report that some individuals experience remarkable improvements in health by eliminating virtually all carbohydrates on a ketogenic diet.4

Several systematic reviews of such studies (called meta-analysis) have been published, and the results are sobering. Low-fat diets produced less weight loss than higher-fat diets, including Mediterranean and low carbohydrate9—raising the possibility that the most widely recommended method for four decades to reduce calorie intake has done more harm than good.

we seem to have a choice—bypass the gastrointestinal tract or bypass the highly processed diet.

Ironically, the standard treatment for diabetes since the 1970s has been a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet—the same diet that contributed to the problem in the first place! We wouldn't give the milk sugar lactose to someone with lactose intolerance. What's the sense in giving so much carbohydrate to someone who, by definition, has carbohydrate intolerance?

Conventional diets aim to shrink body fat by restricting calorie intake. But this approach is doomed to fail in the real world, because it targets the symptoms, not the root cause of the problem. After a few weeks of calorie restriction, the body fights back, and makes us feel hungry, tired, and deprived.

Despite consuming the same total calories on each diet, the participants burned about 325 calories a day more on the low-carbohydrate diet than on the low-fat diet, amounting to the energy expended in an hour of moderately vigorous physical activity. So the type of calories we eat can affect the number of calories we burn.

In a sense, the calorie balance view of obesity is like considering fever a problem of heat balance. It's technically not wrong, but also not very helpful.

have found harmony in this simple quartet: detoxification of carcinogenic substances, an anticancer diet, adequate physical activity, and a search for emotional peace.