Quotes About Wellness

This is why senolytics is so promising: It works by getting rid of these hooligan cells that turn healthy cells to the dark side.

But the quest to preserve your brain is not just about avoiding something that's scary. It's also about preserving and extending youth, and youthful curiosity, learning, playfulness, and relationship building.

Use extralight virgin olive oil, which has less flavor and may help control taste cravings.

YOU-reka! When you keep your hands and brain occupied—whether with video games, gardening, or removing a spleen—it means you're putting your brain into the state you want: not thinking about eating and not automatically reaching for something to put in your mouth.

autophagy is sort of a recycling of your body.11 It helps your body clean up and repair itself by churning up damaged cells and getting rid of (eating) the unwanted cell parts while keeping the cells intact (the word "autophagy" means "self-eating").

Measure your waist. Ideal is 32½ inches or less for women, and 35 inches or less for men.

An easy way to estimate your resting metabolic rate is to multiply your desired weight in pounds by 8 and add 200, but this is very variable, so if anyone ever offers to measure your real metabolic rate, accept the offer.

foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.

From the point of view of American culture, the trouble with disease prevention was that there was no money in it. She needed to find a way to make it pay.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead.

Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

Use the apple test If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

Sir Albert)Howard put it this way:Artificial manures (synthetic fertilizers)lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the Western diseases; in countries where people eat a pound or more of vegetables and fruits a day, the rate of cancer is half what is in the United States.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.

Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs, and other mammals].

A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country,...

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets—except on days that begin with the letter S.

Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. Cook it yourself. Eat anything you want—just as long as you're willing to cook it yourself.

Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.