Top 66 Harley Pasternak Quotes

I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.

There is no such thing as a cleanse. Cleanses tell you that you need to get rid of that piece of gum you swallowed in fifth grade that is still stuck to your intestinal lining. That’s not true.

In America, we eat until we’re full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.

The Swedes prepare their food through curing, smoking, pickling and boiling. Pickling food contains digestive-system-friendly probiotics, and while boiling may not be the tastiest, it’s effective without adding fat!

It’s important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

It’s important to train your abs front to back, side to side, and all around to look great all around.

You cannot out-exercise a bad diet.

There is a world of difference between foods fortified with synthetic vitamins and minerals, and eating vegetables, fruit, and other whole foods full of vitamins and minerals in their natural form.

When I was a little kid, I was chunky. My mother would always joke she would have to get me husky jeans for larger kids. My wife reminds me sometimes, if I overdo it with chocolate chip cookies, that I will have to wear husky pants again.

Dark bread like rye or pumpernickel is much healthier than the refined white bread favored by many Americans.

Some people might sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted because they’re not getting good quality sleep.

Lentils, beans, and other legumes, such as chickpeas, are all excellent sources of fiber.

A toned backside truly anchors your physique and can make the difference between jeans fitting and jeans really fitting.

Don’t let yourself get stuck without a healthy snack option. If you allow yourself to get famished at work, you’re going to be more likely to get your snack from the vending machine, and when was the last time you saw something fresh and healthy in one of those?

Your levels of cholesterol are primarily dependent on your own body’s production rather than the result of eating animal fats. Moreover, some forms of cholesterol are heart healthy.

I grew up in a household where both my brothers had Type 1 Diabetes, so I was raised eating healthy food with healthy ingredients.

When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture.

Through my work as a nutritionist and trainer to celebrity clients, I’ve had amazing opportunities to travel the world. In my experience, I made what seemed to be a remarkable discovery: the farther I travel from the U.S., the easier it is to find foods that are both nourishing and slimming.

Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.

If you don’t own traditional dumbbells, you can also use soup cans or bottles of water.

The United States is far too efficient. We’ve lost the ceremony of eating. People don’t eat at home and cook meals at home.

A cardio workout increases blood flow and acts as a filter system. It brings nutrients like oxygen, protein, and iron to the muscles that you’ve been training and helps them recover faster.

Couscous is not a grain. I repeat, it is not a grain. Much like its brother spaghetti and its sister ravioli, couscous is pasta.

If you wait too long between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, you’re more likely to be ravenous and overeat and/or make poor food choices.

Though typically paired with words like ‘organic,’ ‘harvest,’ or ‘natural,’ almost all granolas are fattening.

To benefit your metabolism, your appetite, and your waistline, snacks need to have protein and fiber.

I got into bodybuilding very young – I was 13.

I grew up in a typical Ashkenazi household. My bubbe actually lived with us. She’d make us the traditional colorless, beige, heavy foods: chicken soup, kreplach, gefilte fish, tzimmes.

All fats do not behave the same way in your body, and certain fats, including the omega-3 fats in salmon and other fatty fish and the monounsaturated fats in nuts, virgin olive oil, and avocados, are integral to a healthy diet.

Most people make the mistake of over-training the biceps and under-training the triceps.

Our bodies have a finely tuned, built-in detoxifying system: It’s called our liver, and it can detoxify our bodies better than any cleanse or fast without the unpleasantness and danger of muscle cramps, dehydration, and diarrhea associated with artificial cleanses.

Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I’d either beat them with a goal or with my fists.

While many processed foods are full of salt, and excessive salt intake is associated with hypertension and other conditions, salt is essential to health. It can be dangerous to have too low a sodium intake.

I’m not a vegan – especially when it comes to protein quality. I stick with the traditional proteins.

I hate greens. I hate vegetables, but greens – especially in a smoothie – are a great way for a big kid like me to hide my vegetables into the meal.

Ladies, don’t be afraid of getting big, bulky arm muscles from resistance exercise.

If you’re ready to give yourself a little challenge, take a walk and mix in short bouts of jogging. It can boost your calorie burn and give you much needed cardiovascular benefits.

Some antiquated diet books will tell you to shun all fats if you want to lose weight, but in reality, it’s not healthy to eliminate fat from our diets altogether.

Everybody is constantly struggling to maintain a healthy lifestyle and the ideal body, regardless of whether they’re overweight.

Just remember the letter ‘S’: salads, stir fries, scrambles, soups, smoothies and sushi. You can’t go wrong with the letter ‘S.’

While most vegetables are good sources of fiber, greens – especially the dark, leafy variety – are jam-packed with fiber and a ton of micronutrients.

Fitness isn’t about being extreme and hard-core. Healthy eating is not about counting calories, weighing food, or finding less tasteful ingredients. Life is about balance.

One thing is to not look at fitness as something that you do at a prescribed time of day in a prescribed room and a prescribed building. You should incorporate physical activity throughout your day.

I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don’t even feel like you’re exercising. You’re having fun, and you’re being healthy at the same time.

For the average person at home, they should know they don’t need a celebrity trainer. It’s all about your habits outside of the gym.

You want to try to keep your sleep and meal patterns attached to the time zone that you’re in. It’s important so you don’t feel disoriented. If we take a red-eye and land in Singapore at 8 A.M., we’re not going to bed. Force yourself to stay awake, have breakfast, power through the day.

Only 1 to 2 percent of adults have a real food allergy. This gluten thing is a… whatever. It’s not an allergy for most people.

When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don’t even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?

All the healthiest countries don’t eat a lot of tropical fruits. They stay away from pineapples, mangos, papayas, and melons and focus on fruits that have edible skin, edible seeds, or are citrus fruits.

Smart snacking is an invaluable weapon against cravings and poor food choices. For me, this translates to three meals and two snacks a day, each containing protein, fiber, and healthy fat.

A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.

Whatever you need to increase the quality of your sleep is really, really important.

Strengthening the lower back helps develop that sexy curve everyone wants from your back to your bum.

One piece of white bread has the same calories as three egg whites scrambled with peppers and onion. Which option do you think is better for you? If all calories were created equal, these two options would have to be nutritionally equivalent.

Pick one exercise a day, a different exercise each day of the week for a different body part. You’re setting yourself up for success because you don’t need to go to the gym, you don’t need any equipment, you don’t need anything.

Make your plate colorful. A lot of Asian countries make it a point of having five colors present on every dish, which leads to eating nutrient-rich foods.

The blue light emanating from our cell phones, our tablets and our laptops is playing havoc on our brain chemicals: our serotonin, our melatonin. It’s screwing up our sleep patterns, our happiness, our appetites, our carbohydrate cravings.