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“Fourth, take more responsibility for your health. Keeping you healthy is not your doctor’s job, nor your spouse’s. It is your job, and you only get so many chances to work on this. You are made of what you eat, so eat the right stuff. Your brain is filled with the knowledge you put in it, so put in good stuff. You life is filled with what you accumulate, so make sure you keep only what you really like.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Doctors don’t really want to be nutritionists, they want to be experts on drugs and medical procedures.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“The most powerful and most deceptive medical lie of all, is that your doctor knows everything there is to know about your health, or about medicine in general.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“To fatten up any animal, you feed it large amounts of corn and grain, but somehow, magically, you fatten up humans by feeding them fat? That “logic” doesn’t make sense.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“You lose fat at the table and build muscle in the gym. Never forget that.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“The primary food you want to put at the center of your diet is fatty meat. Yes, you heard me right! Fatty meat!! That includes beef, lamb, pork, dark meat poultry, fatty fish, shellfish, wild game, and whole eggs—yes, you should eat the yolks!”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“Stop blindly trusting your doctor and Big Pharma to give you a magic pill to fix the health problems your diet has caused. Stop expecting your doctor to have a magic treatment to correct the damage your lifestyle”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“A Japanese study published in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism in 2015 reported that high cholesterol does not lead to heart disease and protects against many illnesses, including cancer. This study found an inverse relationship between all-cause mortality and cholesterol levels.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“All animal foods also have an extremely bioavailable combination of micro- nutrients, which are the vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function optimally. In fact, the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet are animal foods, as we will show you.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“Many times, hunger and food cravings are triggered by too little protein in the diet. All mammals eat until they get enough protein—their bodies tell them when to stop.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
― Ken D. Berry

“The criteria for metabolic health involves five metrics: blood sugar, blood pressure, HDL choles- terol, triglycerides, and waist circumference all being at healthy levels without the need for prescription medications. This tells us that “sick” is the new normal. So be aware that it might not be a good thing when your doctor tells you that everything looks “nor- mal.” You need to discover the truth for yourself. Our health care system is set up to treat sick people, not to prevent illness or disease. Until you’re at the point that you need to be prescribed medication or undergo a procedure, there is nothing they can do.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“The Oreos we ate as a kid are not the same as today’s Oreos. That creamy center used to be lard! In the mid-nineties they switched that out with vegetable oils and additional sugar was added. Here’s the truth: animal fat is easily digested and utilized by the body to build cells and provide energy; it is not the driver of metabolic disease.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“The gluten and other proteins in today’s hybrid wheat seem to contribute to gut inflammation and leakiness, both of which can lead to body-wide inflammation, and even possibly to autoimmune conditions such as hypothyroidism and lupus.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“First, plant protein doesn’t have the same blend and quality of amino acids that animal-based protein does. Individual whole food plant sources don’t have all nine es- sential amino acids: furthermore, they add many non-structural amino acids which can cause inflammation in some humans. What they do have is not in as high a concentration as animal- based sources. Plant-based sources have more carbohydrates (starch and fiber) than protein so you must eat a lot more of them to get the same amount of protein as you would from an animal source.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“and you will can then”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram you genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy. Mark Sisson. 2013. This”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“This image from The FATBURN Fix tells an important story: As we’ve eaten more vegetable oils, we’ve grown fatter and sicker than ever before in history. Dr. Cate be- lieves that “Calorie for calorie, seed oils are worse for our health than sugar.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

“To take it a step further, they use the relative risk percentage instead of the absolute risk percentage in expressing risk of dis- ease. They claim that for every 50 grams of processed meat being eaten—a few strips of bacon—each day, the risk of cancer in- creases by 18 percent. Now 18 percent sounds like a big deal, but that’s the relative risk. It is important to understand that the ex- isting risk of cancer for adults in the US is 5 percent at baseline. According to the IARC’s “data,” eating 50 grams of processed meat each day increased the risk of cancer to about 6 percent. So, the absolute risk increase is 1 percent. Not significant, is it? Especially not when you consider the way they collected their data and the unaccounted lifestyle variables.”
― Ken D. Berry, Kicking Ass After 50: The Guide to Optimal Health for Men Fifty and Over

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― Ken D. Berry