Joel Fuhrman Quotes

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.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

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.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.

Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

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.

Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

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.

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

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.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.

Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.

Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

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.

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

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.

Dieting by portion control doesnt work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

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.

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

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

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

If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.

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.

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.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

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.

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.

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.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

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.

A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.

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.

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.

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.