Quotes About Balance

Your body has a remarkable ability to recover from sporadic insults as long as you're not habitually poking it with a fork.

healthiest diet is one that minimizes the intake of meat, eggs, dairy, and processed junk, and maximizes the intake of fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils), whole grains, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, and herbs and spices—basically, real food that grows out of the ground. Those are our healthiest choices.

The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it keeps people from even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week. Why not scale it down to once a month or reserve it for special occasions? We can not let "perfect" be the enemy of the good. It's really the day-to-day stuff that matters most. What you eat on special occasions is insignificant compared to what you eat day in and day out.

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To amp AMPK, I recommend trying two teaspoons of vinegar with each meal. You might be thinking, Wait—vinegar for breakfast? Those aghast at the thought of drizzling vinegar on their oatmeal may have never heard of chocolate vinegar, strawberry vinegar, or any of the dozens of other exotic flavors out there.

state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

In general, the dividing line between health-promoting and disease-promoting foods may be less plant- versus animal-sourced foods and more whole plant foods versus most everything else.

Foods are not so much good or bad as they are better or worse. All I'm saying is that unprocessed foods tend to be healthier than processed ones. Think of it this way: Eating almonds is healthier than drinking almond milk.

We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The two most prominent dietary risks for death and disability in the world may be not eating enough fruit and eating too much salt.

I'm not interested in offering dueling anecdotes, nor am I interested in dietary dogma, beliefs, or opinions. What I am interested in is the science. When it comes to making life-and-death decisions that concern something as important as your own health and that of your family, as far as I'm concerned, there's only one question: What does the best available balance of evidence say right now? That's what I've tried to encapsulate in this book.

the dividing line between health-promoting and disease-promoting foods may be less plant- versus animal-sourced foods and more whole plant foods versus most everything else.

you had two people eating the same number of calories, it appears the person eating more meat would, on average, gain significantly more weight.

A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.

The inability to access our intuition is primarily caused by the excess of clutter in our minds and in our lifestyles.

There is no such thing as a weekend, and you don't live for your holidays

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectation.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful that God has implanted in the human soul. — JOHANN WOLFGANG

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — THOMAS EDISON

If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance. — LEONARDO DA VINCI