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Joel Fuhrman
American
Scientist
Born:
Dec 2
,
1953
Body
Cancer
Diet
Health
Vegetables
You
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Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.
Joel Fuhrman
Health
You
Quality
Increase
Back
Eat
Weight
Weight Loss
Quantity
Answer
Calories
Reduce
Loss
Just
Cutting
Successful
The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.
Joel Fuhrman
Vegetables
Healthy
Nuts
Seeds
Beans
Mostly
Diet
Fruits
The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.
Joel Fuhrman
Machine
Those
Systems
Miraculous
Diet
Human
Human Body
Require
Body
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
Joel Fuhrman
Salt
Bone
High
Risk
Factor
Excess
Leading
Because
Intake
Loss
Density
Dietary
Therefore
Osteoporosis
Sodium
The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.
Joel Fuhrman
Animal
Vegetables
Composed
Percent
Only
Foods
Animal Products
Calories
Causes
American
Disease
Diet
Fruits
Processed
Products
Chemicals are not currently tested for their endocrine disruption potential before they are approved for use and enter our environment, and there are endocrine disruptors in a vast array of products we come into contact with every day, including organochlorine pesticides, plastics, fuels, and other industrial chemicals.
Joel Fuhrman
Day
Every Day
Before
Every
Other
Our
Approved
Enter
Potential
Vast
Contact
Environment
Come
Industrial
Chemicals
Array
Tested
Currently
Fuels
Use
Products
Pesticides
Including
Disruption
Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.
Joel Fuhrman
Vegetables
Three
Beneficial
Promoting
Onions
Beans
Foods
Longevity
Most
Green
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.
Joel Fuhrman
Health
Heart
Strong
First
Nuts
Recognized
Seeds
Followed
Properties
Indispensable
Protective
Were
Heart Disease
Disease
Confirming
Literature
Against
Body
Original
Cardiovascular
Early
Early 1990s
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.
Joel Fuhrman
Mushrooms
Has-Been
Risk
Consuming
Been
Stomach
Cancers
Regularly
Associated
I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.
Joel Fuhrman
Myself
Big
Triple
Bowl
Make
Salad
Normal
Just
Size
Double
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.
Joel Fuhrman
Health
Our
Nutrients
Fatty
Evidence
Must
Promote
Crucial
Development
Make
Because
Brain
Get
Essential
Diets
Cannot
Them
Much
Bodies
Function
Cardiovascular
Cognitive
Early
Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.
Joel Fuhrman
Resting
Our
Rate
Determined
Genetically
Well
Calorie
Intake
Effect
Largely
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
Joel Fuhrman
Food
People
Healthy
Eating
Take
Never
Healthy People
Should
Need
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.
Joel Fuhrman
You
Will
Pressure
Salt
Increasing
Typical
High
High Blood Pressure
Eat
Percent
Risk
Excess
Lifetime
Developing
Most
Continue
Normal
Blood
Blood Pressure
American
Probability
Diet
Dietary
Your
Notorious
Even
Now
Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.
Joel Fuhrman
Health
Good
Good Health
Pressure
Important
Salt
Added
Those
Only
Remain
Limiting
Reducing
Blood
Blood Pressure
Essential
Dietary
Us
Who
Elevated
Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.
Joel Fuhrman
Control
Addictive
Approach
Eat
Foods
Weight
Weight Loss
Smaller
Fails
Most
Around
Inevitably
Loss
Trying
Same
Just
Diets
Center
Which
Portion
Amount
Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.
Joel Fuhrman
Life
Losing
Try
Slow
Increase
Weight
Instead
Longer
Metabolism
Healthier
Goal
Trying
Diet
Your
Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods like nuts and seeds have profound cardiovascular benefits.
Joel Fuhrman
Benefits
Adding
Fats
Fattening
Nuts
Seeds
Foods
Like
Form
Oils
Unhealthy
Certainly
Naturally
Cardiovascular
Profound
Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.
Joel Fuhrman
Food
Medicine
Most
Truly
Effective
Really
In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?
Joel Fuhrman
Future
People
Impossible
Care
Become
Sick
Our
More
More And More
Support
Economy
How
Healthier
Get
Going
Just
Expensive
Population
Why
Medical
Medical Care
Number
Need
We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.
Joel Fuhrman
Cancer
Find
Magic
Prevent
Got
Cure
Going
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
Joel Fuhrman
Important
Deficient
Viruses
Hundreds
Compounds
Highly
Vulnerable
Makes
Disease
Modern
Diet
Which
Us
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
Joel Fuhrman
Death
Food
You
Law
Cause
Significant
Most
Effect
Escape
Disease
Cannot
Choices
Premature
Biological
Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
Joel Fuhrman
Work
Control
Fighting
Addictive
Constantly
Drives
Because
Dieting
Portion
If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
Joel Fuhrman
Health
You
Eat
Excellent
Ideal
Diet
Want
Need
The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
Problem
Cause
Our
High
Obesity
Fact
Foods
Consumed
Primary
Majority
Calories
American
Current
Diet
The Problem With
Low
Epidemic
Standard
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