Quotes About Nutrition

In fact, there is clear evidence that cooking in 'vegetable' oils is likely to be very bad for our health.

I have seen that those who eat low carbohydrate meals are able to control the change in their glucose levels far easier; that is the rise from the pre-meal reading to the post-meal reading. The lower the rise the better the control and this leads to better long term results.

Ultimately, it becomes obvious that diabetes is controlled (or even reversed) one meal at a time.

Ignorance' is probably the best word to describe public opinion on dietary fat, Harcombe said.

We are failing our populations if we do not look at the association between obesity and diabetes and the introduction of those dietary guidelines,' Harcombe told the hearing. If anyone is giving unconventional, unscientific advice, she said, it is not Noakes. It is more likely those who slavishly recommend the country's food-based dietary guidelines to people with obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health issues.

My conclusion is that humans evolved as obligate fat-eaters, and our biology is dependent on eating diets high in fat and moderate in protein, with carbohydrates providing only that balance of calories that cannot be obtained from readily available fat and protein sources.

Only when we began to eat cereals at the start of the agricultural revolution, and most especially when our ancestral food choices were displaced by the 'displacing foods of modern commerce', did the 'modern diseases of lifestyle' begin to emerge in ever-increasing numbers.

Another cost of adopting a cereal-based diet may be that human brain size has decreased progressively in the past 10 000 years. The decline began at precisely the moment when humans began to raise their children on cereals and grains and less animal produce.

The low-fat diet is over,' Teicholz declared. Not only does this diet appear to cause heart disease, but in clinical trials on more than 52 000 people, the low-fat diet was shown to be 'ineffective in fighting any other kind of chronic disease', she said.

She showed how consumption of animal fat was already dropping in the US in the 1960s when the AHA made their pronouncements. At the same time, and since the early 1900s, the consumption of polyunsaturated vegetable oils had dramatically increased. This rise 'perfectly paralleled' the rising heart-disease rates, she said.

The consequences for public health have been nothing short of tragic, Teicholz said. It's quite likely, she argued, that by shifting towards a greater consumption of grains and other carbohydrates, the US guidelines have been a major contributor to the pandemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

whereas a high-carbohydrate diet increases the concentration of unhealthy small LDL particles, as observed by P.W. Siri-Tarino, F.B. Hu, Q. Sun and R.M. Krauss in their paper 'Saturated fat, carbohydrate and cardiovascular disease'.

cancer was essentially unheard of in populations eating their traditional diets. Even the mid-Victorian English did not suffer greatly from cancer (Figure 16.7 on page 324). That is why cancer is considered to be a disease of 'civilization'.

At its very core, T2DM can be understood as too much glucose and too much insulin. The solution becomes immediately obvious. We must lower the insulin and lower the glucose. The sugar is not just in the blood. That's only part of the problem. There's too much sugar in our entire body.

you can't out-exercise a bad diet.

The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician.

Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets!

Dental remains show that farmers suffered from tooth decay, unheard of in hunter-gatherers, because the carbohydrates in the farmers' cereal-heavy diets were reduced to sugars by enzymes in their saliva as they chewed.

stated, "What you consume is what you will consider." According to this logic, if one wants to be whole, healthy, and productive, one should seek out and digest information that encourages such attributes.

If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied.

The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

A great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition when ill—from which many never rally, because they are not fed—not furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can digest.