Joel Fuhrman Quotations

If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.

Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

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.

I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.

Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems, as well as possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.