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Quotes About Nutrition

humans were very healthy before they began eating the modern industrial diet with its high amounts of sugar, refined grains, trans fats and vegetable oils.
~ Tim Noakes
Human health depends above all on sound nutrition; sound nutrition means growing food and using it in accordance with nature's laws; of all foods made "unnatural" by industrial processing the commonest are refined sugar, refined flour and certain processed vegetable oils. I know of no research that refutes this simple concept.' – Dr Walter Yellowlees, A Doctor in the Wilderness
~ Tim Noakes
He showed that the incidence of acute heart attacks was seven times higher in the rice-eating Indians living in the south than among the Punjabis in the north, who ate 8 to 19 times more fat, chiefly of animal origin, and about 9 times more sugar.59
~ Tim Noakes
Humans typically require 1-3 nutritional events per day. More frequent consumptive events are for the mind not the body.
~ Tim Noakes
Accordingly, the authors concluded: 'Irrespective of the possible limitations of the ecological study design, the undisputed finding of our paper is the fact that the highest CVD [cardiovascular disease] prevalence can be found in countries with the highest carbohydrate consumption whereas the lowest CVD prevalence is typical of countries with the highest intake of fat and protein.
~ Tim Noakes
Most certainly carbohydrates are not necessary for human survival because blood glucose levels are very effectively maintained by gluconeogenesis and glucagon. Carbohydrates are an endorphin releasing drug, not a hunger satisfying food.
~ Tim Noakes
Carbohydrates, however, are not essential nutrients but powerful endorphin-activating drugs that are not controlled by the genetic hunger-satiety feedback system.
~ Tim Noakes
data reveals that the average Type 2 diabetic consumes between 75%-90% of all their daily calories as carbohydrates.
~ Tim Noakes
As a society, we are spending billions of dollars on medications that ineffectively clear sugar from the bloodstream when the simplest, most effective way to prevent the disease or put it into remission is by preventing sugar from ever getting into the bloodstream by not putting it into our faces in the first place!
~ Tim Noakes
when it comes to exactly how many grams of carbs, protein and fat you should eat. LCHF has a wide spectrum, and your specifics will depend on your own unique set of circumstances and goals.
~ Tim Noakes
What comes out of the mind is what you put in the mind. You must feed your mind like you feed your body.
~ Tim Sanders
Did you eat half an Oreo cookie? No problem. If you're a 220-pound male, you just need to climb 27 flights of stairs to burn it off.
~ Timothy Ferriss
use fat, not water, to counter hotness. Capsaicin is fat-soluble.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Some patients who suffer from significant LDL particle number increases on keto can reverse the trend by limiting saturated fat to fewer than 25 g and replacing the required fat calories with monounsaturated fats (e.g., macadamia nut oil, olive oil, limited avocado oil).
~ Timothy Ferriss
Magnesium and calcium are easiest to consume in pill form, and 500 milligrams of magnesium taken prior to bed will also improve sleep.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Going 16 hours without eating generally provides the right balance of autophagy (look it up) and anabolism (muscle building).
~ Timothy Ferriss
Just Because You Exercise Doesn't Mean You Deserve Sugar Water
~ Timothy Ferriss
I use [Palumbo's] protein powder, by Species Nutrition. Every morning, I roll downstairs and: 2 scoops of whey protein [Isolyze], ice, a bunch of powdered Starbucks coffee, some macadamia nut oil, and I make a shake. That's the start.
~ Timothy Ferriss
There are 47,000 products in the average U.S. grocery store, but only a handful of them won't make you fat.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The primary resource, as you'll come back to this: Dom's top go-to resource for the ketogenic diet, including FAQs, meal plans, and more is ketogenic-diet-resource.com.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Once you reach 0.5 mmol—millimolars, a concentration—you can consider yourself lightly "in ketosis.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Una barrita de proteínas Clif Builder de veinte gramos con sabor a chocolate y mantequilla de cacahuete.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I like to promote mild to moderate ketosis for health and longevity, which is between 1 to 3 mmol.
~ Timothy Ferriss