Quotes About Health

You Cannot Buy Your Health in a Bottle—You Must Earn It!

We humans, especially physicians, are notorious for interfering with nature, thinking we know better. Sometimes we do—all too often we don't.

If you want to lose weight, the most important foods to avoid are processed foods: condiments, candy, snacks, and baked goods; fat-free has nothing to do with it.

Americans are nutrient-deficient because they do not eat a sufficient quantity of fresh produce.

foods found in nature are ideally suited to the biological needs of the species.

Humans are primates, and all other primates eat a diet of predominantly natural vegetation.

My experience is that most people are in denial about the true risks associated with their preferred eating style. As much as they resist altering their unhealthy diet, they often quickly change their minds once they have their first serious health incident, such as a heart attack or cancer diagnosis. At that point, they curse their former choices and wish they had made better ones. Think about that for a minute: How would the future you want you to eat?

By my calculations, it is not merely 70 percent of Americans who are overweight, it is more like 85 percent.

Modern science shows that most common ailments in today's world are the result of nutritional ignorance.

Natural plant foods, though usually carbohydrate-rich, also contain protein and fats. On average, 25 percent of the calories in vegetables are from protein. Romaine lettuce, for example, is rich in both protein and essential fatty acids, giving us those healthy fats our bodies require. For more information about essential fats and the protein content of vegetables and various other foods, see chapter five.

Diets don't work, and they're terrible for our health.

Americans didn't take home the message to eat loads of vegetables, beans, and fruits and do loads of exercise; they just accepted that olive oil is a health food.

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Since natural foods supply us with 600–800 milligrams of sodium a day, it is wise to limit any additional sodium, over and above what is in natural food, to just a few hundred milligrams. I recommend no more than 1,000 milligrams total of sodium per day.

the more of these healthy green vegetables (both raw and cooked) you eat, the healthier you will be and the thinner you will become.

I encourage my patients to eat huge salads and at least four fresh fruits per day.

Investigators from Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts recently found that a meal high in refined carbohydrates produced brain effects consistent with those of drug addiction. 1 Every single subject showed intense activation in the nucleus accumbens, the area of the brain related to addiction.

It is possible to prevent and recover completely from type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes. As

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Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.

irrefutable evidence that Americans were committing suicide with food.

It makes good sense to peel fruits if possible, and not to eat potato skins unless you are able to purchase pesticide-free potatoes. Remove and discard the outermost leaves of lettuce and cabbage if not organically grown; other surfaces that cannot be peeled can be washed with soap and water or a commercial vegetable wash. Washing with plain water removes 25 to 50 percent of the pesticide residue.

Of the thirteen currently recognized vitamins, four are fat-soluble (vitamins A, D, E, and K) and nine are water-soluble (eight B vitamins and vitamin C).

Because myrosinase can be deactivated by heat or cooking, it is important to eat some raw cruciferous vegetables every day and chew them exceptionally