Words matter. These are the best Mark Hyman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Stay away from milk. It is nature’s perfect food – but only if you are a calf.
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.
Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.
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 way most doctors practice medicine right now isn’t working.
We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.
You are more likely to be overweight if your friend’s, friend’s friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet.
There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
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.
Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don’t, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.
Seems you can’t outsmart Mother Nature.
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.
It is just physics – who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
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.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don’t finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day.
