Mark Hyman, M.D. Quotes
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I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
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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.
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We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
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Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
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Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
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Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
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Chronic disease is a food borne illness.
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In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
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Glutathione is also the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system. All the toxins stick onto glutathione, which then carries them into the bile and the stool - and out of your body.
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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.
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Just eat less and exercise more.
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One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
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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.
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When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
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The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.
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Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.
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If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
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In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.
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The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.
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Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
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Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
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You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
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All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.
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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.
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There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.
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We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.
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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.
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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.
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The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
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The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.
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