Quotes About Health

Your zip code is a bigger determinant of your health outcomes than your genetic code.

Monsanto's herbicide Roundup has been linked to cancer.20 The World Health Organization released a statement that glyphosate (Roundup) is a "probable carcinogen" in humans.21

Read ingredients lists and don't eat anything with the word "hydrogenated" on the label.

Negative lifestyle choices and high job stress led me down a path of alcohol and nicotine abuse, and eventually open heart surgery.

It is a veritable revolving door of jobs between the USDA and Big Ag and Big Food. Americans should insist on the establishment of a new Department of Food run through the Department of Health and Human Services, which is paying for the consequences of harmful dietary recommendations through Medicare and Medicaid. In

This starts with personal action and community organization. Creating a healthier world is a revolutionary act, one you can start right now.

We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The history and failure of Keys' diet-heart hypothesis, that fat is bad, is well documented in Nina Teicholz's book, The Big Fat Surprise.

Certain foods have high levels, including artichokes, asparagus, plantains, seaweed, and more. All fiber-rich foods will help keep your inner garden healthy—vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and beans.

Even though we know that artificial sweeteners actually cause type 2 diabetes22 and weight gain, slow metabolism, increase hunger,23 and alter gut flora or bacteria to promote obesity and type 2 diabetes,24 they are still recommended by the ADA, diabetes doctors, and registered dietitians. That's right. Artificial sweeteners make you fat and diabetic!

we didn't know that HDL, triglycerides, and the size of your LDL (bad cholesterol) mattered more than total cholesterol.

If exercise could be put in a pill, it might be the most powerful health-promoting longevity strategy ever.

ways to boost testosterone naturally are to eat good fats, including saturated fat (all sex hormones are made from cholesterol); engage in stress-reduction practices, such as meditation; and do strength training.

Every time you take a bite of food, consider that you are programming your biology for health or disease. When you eat healthy food, you are, in fact, eating medicine.

My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols such as xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.

we went from not a single state having an obesity rate over 20 percent to not a single state having an obesity rate under 20 percent

The key is to use a healthy, sustainable strategy for weight loss that balances your hormones and brain chemistry and doesn't put you in a starvation response.

Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish. And when cod is dried, the more than 80 percent of its flesh that is water having evaporated, it becomes concentrated protein - almost 80 percent protein.

The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century.

Baby formula contains three salts: magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride.

In modern times it has been found that oysters are rich in zinc, one of the building blocks of testosterone.

The Romans made sauerkraut and were great cabbage enthusiasts. Cato suggested that women would live long, healthy lives if they washed their genitals in the urine of a cabbage eater. He was listened to on health matters, since in an age of short lives and high infant mortality he lived to be over eighty and claimed to have fathered twenty-eight sons, all of which he credited to eating cabbage with salt and vinegar.

People who live in hot weather, especially if they do physical labor, need more salt because they must replace the salt that is lost in sweating.

Salt deficiency causes headaches and weakness, then light-headedness, then nausea.