Mark Hyman Quotes Page 2

“There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.”

“Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.”

“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.”

“Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.”

“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.”

“We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.”

“We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.”

“When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.”

“You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.”

“You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.”

“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.”

“Your zip code is a bigger determinant of your health outcomes than your genetic code.”

“First, when you try to restrict calories and exercise more, your body is hardwired to perceive a starvation situation. That makes you tired (so you move less and conserve energy) and hungry (so you eat more), and it slows down your metabolism (so you don’t die!). This 'eat less, exercise more' formula is not too successful for most people. It can work for a short time, certainly, but less than 10 percent of people lose weight and keep it off for a year; you will almost always rebound and gain back the weight.

Second, when you eat carbs and sugar, insulin spikes and your blood sugar drops. The insulin drives most of the available fuel in your bloodstream into fat cells, especially the fat cells around your middle, otherwise known as belly fat. So your body is starved of fuel, and this stimulates your brain to make you eat more.

You could have a year’s worth of stored energy in your fat tissue and yet feel like you are starving. The only thing that can stop this vicious cycle is eating a lot of fat and cutting out the refined carbs and sugar. A high-fat, low-carb diet leads to a faster metabolism and sustained weight loss.”

“It is a veritable revolving door of jobs between the USDA and Big Ag and Big Food. Americans should insist on the establishment of a new Department of Food run through the Department of Health and Human Services, which is paying for the consequences of harmful dietary recommendations through Medicare and Medicaid.”

“Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup has been linked to cancer. The World Health Organization released a statement that glyphosate (Roundup) is a 'probable carcinogen' in humans.”

“Saturated fat seems to promote inflammation only in the presence of too many carbs or too little fiber, or there is no connection at all.”

“If we accepted the recommendation of the American Heart Association that we eat less than 5 percent of our calories as saturated fat, we would have to ban breast milk. (It contains a whopping 25 percent of its calories as saturated fat.)”

“Read ingredients lists and don’t eat anything with the word 'hydrogenated' on the label.”

“Soda companies spent $30 million to oppose soda taxes in just four states in 2016. They also regularly take legal action to oppose warning labels, taxes, and more.”

“The average American child has consumed 7½ pounds of chemicals by the age of five.”

“The conversation has changed now that science has proven that processed foods — and especially sugar — are addictive.”

“A 2009 study by Dr. Serge H. Ahmed, 'Is Sugar as Addictive as Cocaine?', published in the journal Food and Addiction, proved that sugar was eight times as addictive as cocaine.”

“A serving of Prego tomato sauce has two teaspoons of sugar, more than two Oreo cookies.”

“How we eat, how much we exercise, how we manage stress, our exposure to environmental and food-based toxins, and the structural violence or 'obesogenic environment' that influences these factors are what is truly driving our diabesity epidemic.”

“In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.”

“Insulin resistance and the diabesity associated with it are often accompanied by increasing belly fat, fatigue after meals, sugar cravings, blood sugar swings or hypoglycemia, high triglycerides, low HDL, high blood pressure, low sex drive, problems with blood clotting, and increased inflammation. These clues can often be picked up long before you ever get diabetes, and may help you prevent diabetes entirely. If you have a family history of obesity (especially around the belly), diabetes, early heart disease, or even dementia or cancer, you are even more prone to this problem.”

“My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.m/authors/mark-hyman-quotes”