Quotes About Wellness

Traditional cultures always preferred the organs of animals, high in fat.

Your genes are not your destiny. They load the gun, but your environment pulls the trigger.

Learn how to meditate. It has been a game changer for me. Try Ziva Meditation (zivameditation.com) to learn a simple 20-minute practice you can do anywhere.

A good multivitamin and mineral, vitamin D3, omega-3 fats, magnesium, and support for methylation (special forms of folate, B6 and B12, and other methylation nutrients) are essential for everyone. And given our gut-busting life, a good probiotic is also important.

These people are stuck in the one-disease, one-drug model of thinking. It is an example of reductionistic thinking that misses the whole point of how systems work—of how the body works.

One can of soda a day increases a woman's risk of type 2 diabetes by 80 percent.

Calories are important. But it isn't the amount of calories as much as the type of calories you consume that makes a difference in terms of how much you weigh and how healthy you are.

Michael Pollan, in his book Cooked, concurs. He says, "The decline of everyday home cooking doesn't only damage the health of our bodies and our land but also our families, our communities and our sense of how our eating connects us to the world.

10 percent of Americans are deficient in vitamin C and actually have scurvy. More than 90 percent are deficient in omega-3 fats, 80 percent are low in vitamin D, and 45 percent are deficient in magnesium and iron, with folate and zinc not far behind. Lack of these nutrients moves us rapidly down the trajectory of disease and aging.

control, and even cure muscle cramps.

Saturated fat, for instance, is bad when eaten with carbohydrates, but when eaten alone, not so much.

The quality of our diet matters most.

person: low muscle mass, inflammation, high triglycerides, low good cholesterol, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure.

Real, whole, fresh, unadulterated, unmodified foods: Those must be the starting point.

such as The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook)

If we accepted the recommendation of the American Heart Association that we eat less than 5 percent of our calories as saturated fat, we would have to ban breast milk. (It contains a whopping 25 percent of its calories as saturated fat.)

saturated fat seems to promote inflammation only in the presence of too many carbs or too little fiber, or there is no connection at all.25 (The key to eating more fat, as you'll learn in Part III, is also eating more f

PGX (a special fiber to lower blood sugar, insulin, and cholesterol levels)

Depression is not a psychiatric illness, but a systemic disease.

It loves cranberry, pomegranate, olives, prickly pear, and green tea! Stimulating the growth of just this one bacterium is associated with reduction in body weight, oxidative stress, and intestinal and liver inflammation and improved insulin sensitivity.

The conversation has changed now that science has proven that processed foods—and especially sugar—are addictive.

Waist-to-Height Table WOMEN Ratio less than 35: abnormally slim to underweight Ratio 35 to 42: extremely slim Ratio 42 to 46: slender and healthy Ratio 46 to 49: healthy Ratio 49 to 54: overweight Ratio 54 to 58: extremely overweight/obese Ratio over 58: highly obese MEN Ratio less than 35: abnormally slim to underweight Ratio 35 to 43: extremely slim Ratio 43 to 46: slender and healthy

If you must take an antibiotic, supplement it with acidophilus.)

That's why weight and metabolism are not math problems. The quality of the food you eat matters much more than the quantity.