The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.
While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.
Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.
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.
My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.
While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.
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.
