Quotes About Health

control, and even cure muscle cramps.

Saturated fat, for instance, is bad when eaten with carbohydrates, but when eaten alone, not so much.

The quality of our diet matters most.

person: low muscle mass, inflammation, high triglycerides, low good cholesterol, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure.

Real, whole, fresh, unadulterated, unmodified foods: Those must be the starting point.

such as The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook)

If we accepted the recommendation of the American Heart Association that we eat less than 5 percent of our calories as saturated fat, we would have to ban breast milk. (It contains a whopping 25 percent of its calories as saturated fat.)

When our government policies and agricultural subsidies have supported the flood of an extra 700 calories per person per day into the food system since 1970 (mostly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup from corn and trans fats), we have a problem.

saturated fat seems to promote inflammation only in the presence of too many carbs or too little fiber, or there is no connection at all.25 (The key to eating more fat, as you'll learn in Part III, is also eating more f

PGX (a special fiber to lower blood sugar, insulin, and cholesterol levels)

If there is one single cause of accelerated aging and diseases of aging, it is this: sugar and starch (especially flour) and the resulting metabolic chaos and insulin resistance. You might be tired of hearing this over and over, but eliminating sugar and flour is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your health and extend your life, not only for your hormones and neurotransmitters, but also for every other core system.

Depression is not a psychiatric illness, but a systemic disease.

It loves cranberry, pomegranate, olives, prickly pear, and green tea! Stimulating the growth of just this one bacterium is associated with reduction in body weight, oxidative stress, and intestinal and liver inflammation and improved insulin sensitivity.

The conversation has changed now that science has proven that processed foods—and especially sugar—are addictive.

Waist-to-Height Table WOMEN Ratio less than 35: abnormally slim to underweight Ratio 35 to 42: extremely slim Ratio 42 to 46: slender and healthy Ratio 46 to 49: healthy Ratio 49 to 54: overweight Ratio 54 to 58: extremely overweight/obese Ratio over 58: highly obese MEN Ratio less than 35: abnormally slim to underweight Ratio 35 to 43: extremely slim Ratio 43 to 46: slender and healthy

If you must take an antibiotic, supplement it with acidophilus.)

Even a serving of Prego tomato sauce has two teaspoons of sugar, more than two Oreo cookies.

In a dramatic study in the journal Circulation, researchers attributed 184,000 deaths each year to the effects of drinking these sugary concoctions. These drinks have been proven to cause obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.

That's why weight and metabolism are not math problems. The quality of the food you eat matters much more than the quantity.

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.

Here's where things get interesting. A 2009 study by Dr. Serge H. Ahmed, Is Sugar as Addictive as Cocaine?, published in the journal Food and Addiction, proved that sugar was eight times as addictive as cocaine.

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

if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. This seems perfectly logical. The problem? It's not true.