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.

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.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

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.

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.

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

As the nicknames get shorter, people come closer.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.