Quotes About Wellness

Food is not just a source of energy or calories. Food is information. It contains instructions that affect every biological function of your body. It is the stuff that controls everything. Food affects the expression of your genes (determining which ones get triggered to cause or prevent disease) and influences your hormones, brain chemistry, immune system, gut flora, and metabolism at every level. It works fast, in real time with every bite. This is the groundbreaking science of nutrigenomics.

carb diet leads to a faster metabolism and sustained weight loss.

When we combine foods that are high in nutrients, we naturally eat less, even with hungry fat cells. The key here is that nutrient-dense foods (real whole foods) are satisfying, while processed empty foods (nutrient-poor foods) are less satisfying, even though they may contain more calories! This

And food is the biggest "environmental" regulator of that complex system we call our bodies.

In other words, it is not how much you eat but what you eat that controls the metabolic switches.

Even if you consume less food and fewer calories, when you eat excess carbs or sugar, you trigger insulin, which turns on a fat-production factory in the liver and your fat-storage system, and you gain

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

When faced with life's most challenging events, it's okay not to be okay.

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

not that the person needs to accommodate him- or herself to yoga, but rather the yoga practice must be tailored to fit each person

the breath is seen as a gateway to the world of vital energetic currents generated in the human body and controlling all the biological processes.

I learned through yoga asana that the body is a map to the soul and that my own body speaks a language that is designed for me to hear and learn from. Everyone's body and practice are different in the sense that the language that the body speaks is entirely different from one person to the next, but

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.