As soon as we stop
eating an artery-clogging diet, our bodies can start healing themselves, in
many cases opening up arteries without drugs or surgery.
Our diet is the
number-one cause of premature death and number-one cause of disability.
Many people assume
that our manner of death is preprogrammed into our genes…. But for most of the
leading causes of death, the science shows that our genes often account for
only 10-20 percent of risk at most.
Smoking cigarettes
is associated with triple the rate of telomere loss.
Three months of
whole-food plant-based nutrition and other healthy changes could significantly
boost telomerase activity, the only intervention ever shown to do so.
A healthy lifestyle
can boost telomerase enzyme activity and reverse cellular aging.
Most of our leading
causes of death and disability are more preventable than inevitable.
The primary reason
diseases tend to run in families may be that diets tend to run in families.
Your family history
does not have to become your personal destiny.
Three hours after
eating a cup of broccoli sprouts, the enzyme that cancers use to help silence
our defenses is suppressed in your bloodstream to an extent equal or greater
than chemotherapy agent specifically designed for that purpose, without the
toxic side effects.
Heart disease may be
a choice.
Given the right
conditions the body heals itself.
Women who consumed
at least one serving of blueberries and two servings of strawberries each week
had slower rates of cognitive decline.
People who drank
fruit and vegetable juices appeared to have a 76 percent lower risk of
developing Alzheimer's disease.
The barrier
separating your bloodstream from the world is many times thinner than a single
sheet of tissue paper.
If you let kids run
around for just six minutes, the levels of immune cells circulating in their
blood increases by nearly 50 percent.
Type 2 diabetes,
previously known as adult-onset diabetes, accounts for 90-95 percent of
diabetes cases.
Type 2 diabetes is
almost always preventable, often treatable, and sometimes even reversible
through diet and lifestyle changes.
A high-fat diet can
impair the body's ability to handle sugar.
Drinking just one
can of soda a day appears to raise the odds of getting fatty liver disease by
45 percent.
Kiwi is one of the
fruits I've prescribed to my patients with insomnia (two an hour before bedtime
appears to significantly improve sleep onset, duration, and efficiency).
If just half of the
U.S. population were to increase fruit and vegetable consumption by a single
serving per day, an estimated twenty thousand cancer cases might be avoided
each year.
When you eat nuts,
you burn more of your own fat.
