Top 100 Joel Fuhrman Quotes
#1. For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.
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#2. Studies continue to provide evidence that more than any other food, fruit is associated with lowered mortality from all cancers combined.
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#3. Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.
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#4. What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.
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#5. Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.
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#6. The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.
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#7. My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.
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#8. Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems, as well as possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects.
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#9. Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.
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#10. Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.
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#11. Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
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#12. Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health ... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.
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#13. The right raw materials can ... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.
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#14. In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?
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#15. Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.
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#16. We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.
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#17. Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.
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#18. Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.
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#19. Vegetables and fruits protect against all types of cancers if consumed in large enough quantities.
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#20. Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.
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#21. Today the link between animal products and many different diseases is as strongly supported in the scientific literature as the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
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#22. Although measuring omega-3 levels in the blood seems like it would be an objective and accurate indicator of fish oil intake compared to using the subjects' reported dietary intake, this test does not accurately reflect long-term dietary intake.
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#23. Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.
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#24. Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.
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#25. Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
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#26. Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.
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#27. The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.
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#28. Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
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#29. The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.
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#30. Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
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#31. Regardless of whether we are required to purchase medical insurance, know that we can only buy real health insurance in the produce section of the local supermarket.
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#32. Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.
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#33. A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.
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#34. Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.
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#35. Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.
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#36. The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
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#37. The word salad here means any vegetable eaten raw or uncooked, e.g., a bowl of cold pasta in olive oil with a token vegetable is not a salad. I encourage my patients to eat two huge salads a day, with the goal of consuming an entire head of romaine or other green lettuce daily. I
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#38. Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.
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#40. We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.
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#41. Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!
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#42. Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.
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#43. Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.
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#44. Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.
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#45. Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.
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#46. Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.
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#47. Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.
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#48. Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.
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#49. What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.
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#50. When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.
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#51. Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.
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#52. Noncaloric sweeteners signal the body that sugar is on the way and stimulate the pancreas to secrete insulin, which is not favorable.
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#53. To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.
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#54. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.
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#55. Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.
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#56. The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
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#57. Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.
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#58. The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.
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#59. The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
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#60. Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.
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#61. One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.
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#62. The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.
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#63. If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
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#64. Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.
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#65. If you have a significant layer of fat around your waist, it means you have regularly consumed food in response to toxic hunger or have eaten recreationally. The body does not store large amounts of fat when fed a wholesome natural diet and given only the amount of food demanded by true hunger.
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#66. Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.
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#67. Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.
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#68. Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.
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#69. When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.
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#70. High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
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#71. The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.
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#72. Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.
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#73. I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life.
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#74. We are losing the war on cancer because we are on an incessant search for the impossible-to-find cure, when in fact removing the causes is the only way to win.
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#75. I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.
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#76. The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
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#77. Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.
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#78. It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.
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#79. We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.
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#80. Most of the time, the reason people are overweight is too little physical activity, in conjunction with a high-calorie, low-nutrient diet.
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#81. Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose.
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#82. A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.
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#83. Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are associated with lower risk of cancers, and substances contained in these foods display anti-cancer or immune-boosting properties.
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#84. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one.
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#85. If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.
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#86. Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.
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#87. We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.
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#88. We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
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#89. If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.
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#90. Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.
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#91. Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.
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#92. The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.
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#93. Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.
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#94. A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.
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#95. We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.
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#96. There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
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#97. You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.
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#98. I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.
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#99. We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
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#100. Health is not luck.
We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.
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