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Joel Fuhrman [1953-0] American

Rank: 103
Scientist, Author

Joel Fuhrman, is an American author, physician, speaker, and media personality who advocates what he calls a micronutrient-rich diet.
A former competitive figure skater, he suffered a serious injury which removed him from competition. He says an Alternative medicine therapy helped speed his recovery and led him to become a physician.

Diet, Health, Food, Medical, Best, Environmental

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Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.	Best	101
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.		102
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.	Diet, Food	103
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.	Health	104
We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.	Diet	105
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.	Health	106
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.		107
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.		108
Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.	Food	109
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.	Food	110
We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.		111
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.	Diet	112
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.	Health	113
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?	Health	114
Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.		115
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.		116
Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.	Diet	117
The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.	Diet	118
The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.	Diet	119
What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.		120
If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.		121
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.		122
The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.		123
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.		124
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.	Diet	125
Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.	Diet	126
The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.		201
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.	Diet	202
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?	Medical	203
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.	Diet	204
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.	Diet	205
We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.		206
To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.	Diet	207
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.		208
Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.		209
When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.		210
Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.	Diet	211
If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.	Diet	212
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.	Diet	213
The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.		214
Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.		215
One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.	Diet	216
It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.		217
I have appeared on 'The Dr. Oz show' and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.		218
Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.		219
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.	Medical	220
Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.		221
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.		222
We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.	Diet	223
I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life.		224
Although measuring omega-3 levels in the blood seems like it would be an objective and accurate indicator of fish oil intake compared to using the subjects' reported dietary intake, this test does not accurately reflect long-term dietary intake.		225
Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.		226
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.		301
We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.	Environmental	302
Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are associated with lower risk of cancers, and substances contained in these foods display anti-cancer or immune-boosting properties.		303
Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!		304
Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.		305
Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.		306
My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.		307
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.	Diet	308
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.		309
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.		310
The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.		311
Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.		312
Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.		313
What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.		314
Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.		315
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.	Diet	316
A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.	Diet	317
A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.	Diet	318
The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.		319
There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.		320
Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.	Medical	321
I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.		322
Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.		323
Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.		324
Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.		325
Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.		326

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