Joel Fuhrman Quotes

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Joel Fuhrman

Profession : Scientist

Birth : December 2, 1953

I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.

Joel Fuhrman

What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.

Joel Fuhrman

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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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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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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Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

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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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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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The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

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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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Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

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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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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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To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

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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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We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

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