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“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” —MARK TWAIN”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Let me make this abundantly clear: carbs do not make you fat, unless you are eating too many calories. In fact, the body is very resistant to turning carbs to fat. We are designed to burn carbs. Every cell in our body utilizes energy from glucose.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“A number of popular and misinformed nutritional “experts” promote a fantasy they call “bio-individuality,” meaning that we’re all different and need to eat based on our body’s own inner wisdom. That’s fine in theory, but in practice it usually means choosing the foods we crave over the ones that can heal us. Imagine telling a cocaine addict to listen to his body. He’d be bent over a mirror with a glass straw up his nose as soon as his current high started to fade.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“After years of intense research, I could come to only one conclusion: People whose diets are high in animal protein have significantly higher rates of chronic diseases: hypertension, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and many, many others, including cataracts, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, inflammatory bowel disease, gall bladder disorders, gout, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, kidney stones, and rheumatoid arthritis.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“The egg industry tells us eggs are good because they are high in protein, but I have already shown you we don’t need the protein, and in fact the FDA does not allow the egg industry to advertise that eggs are a healthy food. Both because even one egg exceeds the recommended daily allowance for cholesterol, and because so many eggs harbor harmful salmonella bacteria, eggs are barely this side of legal.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“It’s a common misconception that humans are carnivores. It’s one of the first things people say to me when they want to argue with my food advice (after the obligatory protein rant). Are we carnivores? Feel your teeth. Look at your hands. Can you chase down an animal and rip its hide off with your bare hands and teeth? Do you look anything like a lion? We are omnivores; our intelligence and anatomical adaptation has allowed us to survive harsh situations by being able to eat anything, but that does not mean what we eat is the best thing for us!”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes”(Craig, Mangels, et al. 2009).”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Albert Einstein, once said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Do you look anything like a lion? We are omnivores; our intelligence and anatomical adaptation has allowed us to survive harsh situations by being able to eat anything, but that does not mean what we eat is the best thing for us!”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Imagine, he wrote, a cliff where people keep falling off and dying. Instead of erecting a warning sign at the top of the cliff telling people not to approach, modern medicine just places ambulances at the bottom (Burkitt 1991).”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Recently the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine to assess the health of Americans versus the rest of the world. Their findings were shocking. Despite being the richest country with one of the most advanced health-care infrastructures, and despite spending more money on health care per capita than any other country in the world, we have the worst health. We die at an earlier age, have more obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and lead the way in many cancers. Our advances in medicine have limited our cancer deaths but only slightly.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“3. Denialists cherry-pick the articles that suit their prejudice.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“MYTH: Many cultures, past and present, have eaten a high-protein diet and thrived. FACT: Through the history of our time on Earth, no culture that has thrived on a high-protein diet. Some cultures have eaten such a diet. But when they do, they do not thrive. Without a single exception, they survive while suffering higher rates of disease, disability, degeneration, and premature death.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Analysis shows that most long-term successful “losers” have a few things in common. They get moderate exercise, they don’t skip breakfast, they don’t go on crash diets, and, importantly, they focus on low-fat diets (Shick, Wing, et al. 1998). Yes, many low-carb diets show better initial weight loss, but what we should be focusing on is the long term. After all, do you want to be lean for six months, or for the rest of your life?”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“The unarguable fact is, no culture in human history has truly thrived on a high-protein, meat-based diet. To the contrary, anthropology of both past and present civilizations demonstrates that starches, grains, vegetables, beans, and fruit are the foods that have enabled humans to flourish.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Rather than becoming “anti animal protein,” I’d rather you take a stand “pro fruits and vegetables.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“2. Denialists like to denigrate experts.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“It seems ironic to me now, if not downright sinister, that my hospital was leading the country in treating the diseases caused by fast-food diets and yet welcomed a Wendy’s onto its ground floor. Every day, you could see a long line of people waiting patiently to get their bacon cheeseburgers before going in to see their cardiologists.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“In reality there is simply no food that we eat today that is remotely similar to what they ate in prehistoric times.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“According to a 2007 study published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, protein provided only 7 percent of the calories in the Okinawan diet (Willcox, Willcox, et al. 2007, 2009; Sho 2001).”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“No matter the diet, the concept of the “Cheat Day” is a disempowering and dangerous one. People who eat strictly for six days a week and then binge on their favorite “forbidden foods” on day seven spend the entire week fantasizing about that cheeseburger.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“And while I was known for my contributions to the weight-loss field, I was acutely aware that the real goal was improved health and freedom from disease, not simply a slim body still in failing health.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Research has shown that restricting methionine increases longevity in rodents. It’s been known for a while that caloric restriction increases life span; now we’re starting to gain a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms. It’s not all calories, but those from animal foods, that tend to shorten life.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“6. Are they doing real science?”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“4. Consider the study design.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“In their zealous pursuit of weight loss, low-carb dieters risk “compromised vitamin and mineral intake, as well as potential cardiac, renal, bone, and liver abnormalities overall” (St Jeor, Howard, et al. 2001).”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“You may have tried a diet strategy that has become popular lately, that of the “cheat meal.” If you eat good, healthy food all week, but get to eat a hamburger on Saturday, the hamburger lives on a pedestal in your mind. You don’t allow yourself to appreciate the good food because you cannot wait to get to that juicy hamburger.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“Even if you know nothing about nutrition, consider this protein paradox: some of us consume protein shakes and skinless chicken breasts in order to lose weight, while at the same time bodybuilders and gym rats chug protein shakes and gorge on chicken breasts in order to gain weight.”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“After following thousands of people for twelve years, the EPIC researchers concluded that meat, and especially processed meat (bacon, lunch meats, etc.), is significantly associated with the development of type 2 diabetes, and fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with a decrease in diabetes development (Consortium 2013, 2014).”
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
― Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
