Quotes About Nutrition

Sardines packed in sardine oil:

Broccoli sprouts:

Eight cereal grains (wheat, corn, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, rye, and millet) now provide 56 percent of the calories and 50 percent of the protein consumed on earth. Without these crops, the planet could not support six billion people. So

Dates are not a low-calorie food, nor are they a low-sugar food. A single large pitted date has a whopping 66 calories, not bad if you eat just one, which, unfortunately, almost nobody does. But that same single date has calcium and magnesium in an almost perfect 1:1 ratio

Cranberry Juice

Grapefruit Diet May Be Credible After All Now it turns out we may have spoken too soon. In spring 2006, a study from the division of endocrinology of the department

Potential weight loss, cholesterol lowering, and anticancer benefits aside—and those are pretty big benefits to put aside—grapefruit is a good low-calorie source of potassium and vitamin C. It even has a drop of calcium and magnesium, 20 mg of phytosterols, and a gram or two of fiber. The red and pink varieties also have vitamin A, beta-carotene, and the aforementioned cancer-fighting

Singh Khalsa, M.D., the internationally acclaimed expert in integrative medicine and author of Food as Medicine, the kiwifruit is one of the most underrated healing foods. "Because of their rich array of disease-fighting antioxidants and phytonutrients, they are often

When life gives you a lemon . . . squeeze it, mix with 6 ounces of water, and drink twice daily." That folk wisdom

cholesterol in the body is never a problem until it becomes oxidized. It's only this oxidized cholesterol—specifically, pattern B LDL cholesterol—that is a problem, because pattern B LDL molecules are the ones that adhere to the cell walls and initiate or accelerate the process of inflammation

There's a direct correlation between high homocysteine levels and an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.

high-glycemic carbs can affect the progression of heart disease." During the consumption of foods high in sugar, there appears to be a temporary and sudden dysfunction in the endothelial walls of the arteries

Shechter recommended sticking to foods such as oatmeal, fruits and vegetables, and legumes and nuts, which all have a low glycemic index. Exercising every day for at least thirty minutes, he added, is an extra heart-smart action to take.

Fast Action Plan: Stop eating fast food. On all packaged foods from the supermarket, check the ingredients list for "partially hydrogenated" or "hydrogenated" oils. If either of those is listed, don't eat it. Look in particular at margarines, cookies, cakes, pastries, doughnuts, and, as mentioned, fast food.

Papaya Enzymes Ease Digestion, Pain, and Inflammation Papaya—along with pineapple—is one of the best sources of digestive enzymes. Papaya contains papain, one of a class of enzymes

Even borderline deficiencies of magnesium can negatively affect the heart, and not surprisingly, there is a considerable amount of evidence associating low levels of magnesium with cardiovascular disease.21

There is reliable and consistent research evidence demonstrating that omega-3 fats, mainly from fish, lower the death rate from heart disease and lower the risk of sudden cardiac death. This is hardcore evidence that fish oil saves lives.

You can prevent and even heal heart disease through diet, exercise, and/or nutritional supplements

orange juice a day (though those results may have been due to other healthy habits of the juice drinkers). And many of the cancer-fighting limonoids (see below) are also present in the juice. But compared to the whole fruit, orange

Sunflower Seeds

Fermented Soy (tempeh and miso)

The next thing I ask about is breakfast. I counsel my clients to eat a fat and protein-heavy breakfast as soon as possible after they awaken (no simple carbohydrates, no sugars, as they are digested too rapidly, and produce a blood-sugar spike and rapid dip). This is because anxious and depressed people are already stressed, particularly if their lives have not been under control for a good while.

Aristotle observes that eating either too much or too little is troubling to the constitution.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.