Quotes About Well-being

Remember, the only intent is for your own well-being. From that place, what Dr. Hew Len calls Zero, you may be inspired to help another, but let it come from inspiration, not the intent of ego.

It turns out loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself. And as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

To maximize the immune-function benefits of cruciferous vegetables, do the following: 1. Chew all cruciferous greens very, very well, trying to crush every cell. 2. Puree, blend, or chop cruciferous vegetables before adding them to stews or soups. 3. When steaming green cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage, try to undercook slightly so they are not too mushy.

I recommend six fresh fruits and eight total servings of vegetables per day, including two servings of cruciferous vegetables (at least one raw).

Foods with a high ratio of alpha-carotene to calories include the following: Bok choy Cabbage Red peppers Carrots Swiss chard Green peppers Asparagus Collards Broccoli Peas Winter squash

Grain products are lower on the nutrient density scale, so limit yourself to one serving per day of whole grain products such as steel cut oats, wild or black rice, quinoa, farro, cornmeal, or 100 percent whole grain bread. Remember, an intact grain has a lower glycemic index than one ground into a flour, so steel cut oats are better than oatmeal flakes, which are better than oat flour.

Being fit is not the same thing as being healthy.

Based on an exhaustive look at research data from around the world over the past fifteen years, my recommendation is that your diet should contain over 90 percent of calories from unrefined plant foods. This high percentage of nutrient-dense plant foods in the diet allows us to predict freedom from cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and excess body weight. Fruits

I am confident when I say to them: "Let's not just treat your diabetes and control it. Let's get rid of it and make you nondiabetic.

We humans, especially physicians, are notorious for interfering with nature, thinking we know better. Sometimes we do—all too often we don't.

It is possible to prevent and recover completely from type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes. As

For maximal disease prevention, sodium levels should probably be less than 1,000 mg/day—which is about the normal level for our biological needs.

Processed foods include the following: white bread, bagels, chips, pasta, donuts, cookies, breakfast bars, cold cereals, soft drinks, pretzels, condiments, and premade salad dressings.

A healthy body will give you the correct signals.

I prefer not to call the diet-style I recommend a "Fuhrman" diet; instead, I call the nutrient-dense, plant-rich (NDPR) diet that I recommend a Nutritarian diet.

Intuitively we all know that nothing operates most efficiently at full throttle. Is it any wonder that a food system predicated on faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper would create an ignorant, duplicitous, harried, obese citizenry? A culture's people carry in their heads and physiques the manifestation of the food system's objectives.

Friendship with children eliminates the propensity for suicide in society.

Friendship will protect your heart from pain, bitterness, cancer and heart attack.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

When emotional energy blocks the resolution of trauma, the mind itself becomes diminished in its ability to function.

The wounded inner child is filled with unresolved energy resulting from the sadness of childhood trauma. One of the reasons we have sadness is to complete painful events of the past, so that our energy can be available for the present.

Shyness can become a serious problem when it is rooted in toxic shame.

Happy brains are all alike; every unhappy brain is unhappy in its own way.

La ansiedad y el temor son emociones debilitantes para el corazón humano, y también lo son las pérdidas. Pueden debilitarnos, encarcelarnos, paralizarnos, desalentarnos y enfermarnos. Para ser exitosos, necesitamos encontrar maneras de desatascarnos emocionalmente.