Quotes About Nutrition

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

researchers from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom gave seventy-one female undergraduate students slow- or fast-digesting carbohydrate-based breakfasts and then tested their cognitive functioning. They found that memory, especially for hard words, was impaired throughout the morning after the fast-digesting breakfast.

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

So for breakfast, you could have a bowl of cornflakes with no added sugar, or a bowl of sugar with no added cornflakes. They would taste different but, below the neck, act more or less the same.

Like many young doctors, I had received virtually no instruction in nutrition. Then, as now, medical schools focused almost exclusively on drugs and surgery, even though lifestyle causes most cases of heart disease and other chronic disabling conditions. In

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?

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.

M]y body's needs are no more or less real than my psyche's. My life brings me the most happiness when I am kind, am responsible, ejaculate a lot, pay my bills, get enough exercise, stay healthy, love a lot, share with those in want, help those in need, and eat enough fiber.

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

In a long-range study of 91,000 nurses over twelve years, the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard showed that the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women is twice as high in those who eat red meat more than once a day as in those who consume it less than three times a week .97 The risk of breast cancer could therefore be halved simply by reducing consumption of red meat.

same conclusion for colon cancer: The risk was twice as high for people who ate large quantities of meat as for those who consumed fewer than 20 grams (an ounce) a day. (With regular consumption of fish—rich in omega-3s—the risk went down by 50 percent.)98

It is also clear that typical vegetables contain one hundredth the amount of contaminants found in meat and that organic milk is less contaminated than conventional milk.102,103

A fifty-year-old salesman who does not have cancer told me how much his life has changed since he started drinking green tea, adding turmeric to his food every day (with black pepper!), and managing his stress with cardiac coherence.

By participating in certain programs, such as that of the Commonweal Center in California (which we'll discuss later), patients try to take charge of their cancer, to learn to live in greater harmony with their bodies and their past, to seek peace of mind through yoga and meditation, and to choose foods that fight cancer while avoiding those that promote its development.

What about people with high cholesterol who keep eating French fries? Do we say a disease is not biological because it's influenced by behavior? No one starts out hoping to become an addict; they just like drugs. No one starts out hoping for a heart attack; they just like fried chicken.

In Europe, corn (wheat) is the major crop, and a staple part of our diets

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

organic biscuits.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.