Quotes About Health

Unlike waist circumference, body mass index has the advantage of taking height into account. Waist-to-height ratio may offer the best of both worlds, and the cutoff value is the simplest to remember: Keep your waist less than half your height.506 The goal for adults and children six years or older is to get a waist-to-height ratio under 0.5.507

Researchers found the addition of milk "completely prevents the biological activity of tea.

The worst snacks, according to national snacking guidelines from around the world, are snacks that are sugary, fatty, or salty.

A meal eaten at 7:00 a.m. can cause 37 percent lower blood sugars than an identical meal taken at 1:00 p.m.

So consuming more calories in the morning relative to the evening may actually have the triple benefit of more weight loss, better blood sugar control, and lower heart disease risk.

What do you think happened when people were given a cup of chickpeas or the same number of calories of white bread and butter? Those who had eaten the chickpeas ate nearly two hundred fewer calories of a meal served a few hours later.2323 Navy beans may work even better than chickpeas, and lentils best of all.2324 How do legumes fare compared to something a little more substantial than Wonder Bread, though?

not smoking, not being obese, getting half an hour of exercise a day, and eating healthier—defined as consuming more fruits, veggies, and whole grains and less meat. Those four factors alone were found to account for 78 percent of chronic disease risk.

Large-scale population studies have found that the consumption of artificial sweeteners, particularly in diet sodas, is associated with increased weight gain and abdominal fat over time.1538

Night-shift workers have higher rates of obesity, as well as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer2884—graveyard shift indeed!

Though traditional Indian diets can include up to about a teaspoon of turmeric daily, the average intake in India is closer to a quarter teaspoon a day.14 So that's how much I recommend you get as part of your Daily Dozen.

There may be no such thing as dying from old age. From a study of more than forty-two thousand consecutive autopsies, centenarians—those who live past one hundred—were found to have succumbed to diseases in 100 percent of the cases examined.

Most deaths in the United States are preventable, and they are related to what we eat. 4

Now a self-sustaining nonprofit organization itself, NutritionFacts.org has more than a thousand bite-sized videos on nearly every conceivable nutrition topic, and I post new videos and articles every day.

My quarter teaspoon of dried turmeric recommendation translates into about a quarter inch of fresh turmeric root. The roots are about two inches long, cost about ten cents each, and can last for weeks in the fridge or basically forever in the freezer.

Experiments simultaneously varying bite size and oral exposure time with solid food found the same phenomenon: It's better to nibble and savor than chomp and gulp.

use a grater to add my daily quarter inch into whatever I may be cooking (or right onto a cooked sweet potato), or I throw a raw slice into a smoothie. You probably won't even taste it. Fresh turmeric has a much more subtle flavor than dried, so it may be an especially good option for those who don't like turmeric's taste.

Are Americans living longer now compared to about a generation ago? Yes, technically. But are those extra years necessarily healthy ones? No. And it's worse than that: We're actually living fewer healthy years now than we once did. 20

In other words, we're living longer, but we're living sicker.

The $50 billion weight-loss industry has been fed by an endless parade of fad diets offering quick-fix solutions.

Groats can then be sliced into two to four pieces

Prepared yellow mustard typically already has turmeric in it for color, but try to find a salt-free variety—one that's essentially just vinegar, a cruciferous vegetable (mustard seeds), and turmeric. I can't think of a healthier condiment.

The eight-a-day recommendation can be traced back to a 1921 paper in which the author measured his own urine and sweat output and determined he lost about 3 percent of his body weight in water a day, which comes out to about eight cups. Consequently, for the longest time, water requirement guidelines for humanity were based on just one person's urine and sweat measurements.

We've learned from studies on preloading that eating about a cup of food before a meal decreases subsequent intake by about one hundred calories, so to get a "negative calorie" effect, the preload has to contain fewer than one hundred calories per cup.4556,4557 As you can see in the Calories per Cup chart in the Low in Calorie Density section, that would include most fresh fruits and vegetables

state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.