The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further.

It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

Capitalism begins with giving.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.