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Quotes About Health

knew that happiness, health, and security come from devoting yourself to two things—your family and your friends—and anything that doesn't bring you closer to both is pulling you in the wrong direction.
~ Christopher McDougall
But in 1977, the United States separated itself from every other government in history by vilifying meat and pushing grains, which were traditionally used to fatten cattle. Soon after, America's obesity rate shot up and hasn't stopped.
~ Christopher McDougall
Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.
~ Christopher McDougall
Nem?žeš b?hat do kopce a mít špatnou biomechaniku," vysv?tlil mi. "Prost? to nefunguje. Když se pokusíš s nap?ímenou nohou p?istát na patu, p?epadneš dozadu.
~ Christopher McDougall
Máte-li nohu v sád?e, b?hem šesti týdn? svaly atrofují o ?ty?icet až šedesát procent. Cosi podobného se stane s vaším chodidlem, je-li uv?zn?no v bot?.
~ Christopher McDougall
Nep?estáváš b?hat proto, že zestárneš. Zestárneš, protože p?estaneš b?hat. (Dipsea Demon)
~ Christopher McDougall
Hoy en día, el doctor Hartmann cree que el mejor consejo para la prevención de lesiones es el que escuchó de boca de un entrenador que recomendaba «correr descalzo sobre césped húmedo tres veces a la semana». No
~ Christopher McDougall
Fat as fuel is an all-but-forgotten secret of endurance athletes, but when it's revived, the results are astonishing.
~ Christopher McDougall
You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when to back off," Ann would explain. You
~ Christopher McDougall
The Running Athlete, the definitive radiographic analysis of every conceivable running injury.
~ Christopher McDougall
running shoes may be the most destructive force to ever hit the human foot. Barefoot
~ Christopher McDougall
I know as a shoe company, it's not the greatest thing to have a sponsored team not use your product, but people went thousands of years without shoes. I think you try to do all these corrective things with shoes and you overcompensate. You fix things that don't need fixing. If you strengthen the foot by going barefoot, I think you reduce the risk of Achilles and knee and plantar fascia problems.
~ Christopher McDougall
Months later, I'd learn that iskiate is otherwise known as chia fresca— "chillychia." It's brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime. In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone. As tiny as those seeds are, they're superpacked with omega-3s, omega-6s, protein, calcium, iron, zinc, fiber, and antioxidants.
~ Christopher McDougall
need two hundred calories an hour. The trick is learning how to take in a little at a time, so you've got a steady drip of fuel without overwhelming your stomach. This'll be good practice.
~ Christopher McDougall
The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.
~ Christopher McDougall
If there's any magic bullet to make human beings healthy, it's to run.
~ Christopher McDougall
Al basar su alimentación en frutas, vegetales y cereales integrales, Scott obtiene la máxima cantidad de nutrientes del menor número posible de calorías, así que su cuerpo no se ve forzado a cargar o procesar volumen innecesario. Y dado que los carbohidratos abandonan el estómago con mayor rapidez que las proteínas, le es posible meter más horas de ejercicio en el día, ya que no debe esperar sentado a digerir las albóndigas.
~ Christopher McDougall
Robert Schleip, head of the Fascia Research Project at Germany's Ulm University,
~ Christopher McDougall
The real mutants are the runners who don't get injured. Up to eight out of every ten runners are hurt every year. It doesn't matter if you're heavy or thin, speedy or slow, a marathon champ or a weekend huffer, you're just as likely as the other guy to savage your knees, shins, hamstrings, hips, or heels.
~ Christopher McDougall
He started eating pinole for breakfast
~ Christopher McDougall
dice el Demonio—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr".
~ Christopher McDougall
We've become obsessed with things that affect the way we look, instead of the way we move.
~ Christopher McDougall
Cultiva unos geranios silvestres —sugirió—. O compra extracto por Internet.» El geranium niveum es la medicina mágica tarahumara; según el Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, es igual de efectivo que el vino tinto a la hora de neutralizar la acción de los radicales libres. En palabras de un escritor, los geranios silvestres son «anti todo: antiinflamatorios, antivirales, antibacterianos, antioxidantes».
~ Christopher McDougall
Months later, I'd learn that iskiate is otherwise known as chia fresca—"chilly chia." It's brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime. In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone.
~ Christopher McDougall