Joel Fuhrman Quotes

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

We recognize that we create a product that is harmful and causes serious disease.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.

I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave something, I eat it. But I definitely try to stick to a balanced diet always.

I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.

It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

I can attest to the very real potential for unnecessary pain, suffering, and death when the work of public-health officials is curtailed.

Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.