Quotes About Wellness

In other words, it wasn't the weight loss and it wasn't the exercise that reversed cell aging—it was the food.

But feed people four servings a week of beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils, and you can get a whopping 40 percent drop in C-reactive protein,2368 a leading indicator of systemic inflammation. More beans equals less inflammation. Greater consumption

My grandma was given her medical death sentence at age sixty-five. Thanks to a healthy diet and lifestyle, she was able to enjoy another thirty-one years on this earth with her six grandchildren. The woman who was once told by doctors she only had weeks to live didn't die until she was ninety-six years old.

What's more, not only may eating healthier to prevent cancer help to prevent heart disease but eating to prevent heart disease may also help to prevent cancer. One of the reasons? Cholesterol may play a role in the development and progression of breast cancer.75 Cancer appears to feed on cholesterol.

When your smoking habit erases the antioxidant-boosting effects of eight hundred cups of kale, you know it's time to quit.

7 sencillos», o 7 factores que pueden promover una vida más saludable: no fumar, evitar el sobrepeso, ser «muy activo» (definido como el equivalente de caminar al menos veintidós minutos al día), seguir una dieta saludable (por ejemplo, abundantes frutas y verduras), tener un nivel de colesterol por debajo de la media, una tensión arterial normal y unos niveles de glucosa en sangre normales.[27

thousand older women over a period of a dozen years and found that those who ate the most antioxidant-rich foods had the lowest stroke risk.42 Similar findings were reported in a younger cohort of men and women in Italy.43 As with lung disease,44 antioxidant supplements don't appear to help.45 Mother Nature's powers cannot be stuffed into a pill. Knowing this, scientists set out to find the most

The Mayo Clinic estimates that nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug.

been found to be protective of the liver. For instance, starting out the day with a bowl of oatmeal and (surprisingly) coffee may help safeguard our liver function.

Three hours after eating 50 grams of broccoli sprouts, the enzyme that cancers use to help silence our defenses is suppressed in your bloodstream110 to an extent equal to or greater than the chemotherapy agent specifically designed for that purpose,111 without the toxic side effects.112

Whatever genes we may have inherited from our parents, what we eat can affect how those genes affect our health. The power is mainly in our hands and on our plates.

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.

That one unifying diet found to best prevent and treat many of these chronic diseases is a whole-food, plant-based diet, defined as an eating pattern that encourages the consumption of unrefined plant foods and discourages meats, dairy products, eggs, and processed foods.

Amazingly, compared to the control group who ate no nuts at all, just a single serving of four Brazil nuts almost immediately improved cholesterol levels. LDL—the "bad"—cholesterol levels were a staggering twenty points lower just nine hours after eating the Brazil nuts.51 Even drugs don't work nearly that fast.52

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

Bottom line: Putting together all the randomized controlled trials of ginger powder, two to twelve weeks of a quarter teaspoon to one and a half teaspoons a day of ground ginger significantly decreased body weight for just pennies a day.

Every time you put something in your mouth, it's a lost opportunity to put something even healthier in there

Just because you're born with bad genes doesn't mean you can't effectively turn them off.

Sean cuales sean los genes que hemos heredado de nuestros padres, lo que comemos puede afectar al modo en que influyen sobre nuestra salud. Básicamente, tenemos el poder en nuestras manos y en nuestros platos

Legumes have been found to be perhaps "the most important dietary predictor of survival in older people" around the world.

A key difference between plant-based nutrition and more traditional approaches to weight loss is that people are encouraged to eat ad libitum, which is, as I've noted, Latin for at one's pleasure. In other words, people on a healthy enough plant-based diet can eat as much as they want.

The four largest calorie contributors in the American diet are (1) refined grains, (2) added fats, (3) meat, and (4) added sugars.

human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.

Walking is the best possible exercise. — THOMAS JEFFERSON