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“Health = positive things minus negative”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“The body and mind are inseparably connected; they are one and the same thing. The way we react to life events and respond to our thoughts and emotions directly affect our cells.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“Eating sugar in excess of what can be immediately burned causes it to be stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver’s capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar soon causes the liver to exceed its ability to store sugar, and the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored as fat in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts, and the thighs.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

“Once we obtain high-quality foods, we still must prepare them properly. The first step in nontoxic food preparation is to wash or peel foods in order to remove agricultural chemicals, bacteria and molds. Waxed foods (such as most cucumbers, eggplant, turnips and apples) definitely should be peeled, because the wax often is covering surface residues of pesticides and fungicides that are applied before the wax is applied; also, questions abound about the safety of some of the waxes. For foods that cannot be peeled, washing under running water for a minute or two does a relatively good cleaning job; using a pure, liquid castile soap (a mild soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide) cleans even better. For foods like lettuce,”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“You are what you eat.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“[T]he greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine.” Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. Confessions of a Medical Heretic”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“Sugar is so damaging to body chemistry that, in his 2000 book, Fit for Life: A New Beginning, Harvey Diamond calls refined sugar “a deadly, virulent poison.” During”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“Health = positive things minus negative things”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It

“Insulin signals cells to absorb excess sugar, which solves the problem of too much sugar in the blood, but it creates a host of new problems. Now the body’s cells have too much sugar. To correct this imbalance, cells turn the sugar into saturated fat.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

“Losing weight is not about how to lose weight; it is about how to regain health.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

“Heavy metals such as mercury, lead, and cadmium have been linked to obesity, even at low levels that were previously thought to be safe.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

“If you eat both a starch and a protein at the same time, expect problems. As your body pours alkaline components into the digestive system to break down starches and releases acid to digest proteins, the acids and alkalis neutralize each other so that nothing is properly processed.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

“Sugar promotes cancer both by depressing immunity and because cancer cells require more sugar than normal cells. Cancer patients should never eat sugar. Even natural sugar from fruits can feed cancer.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

“Eating even two teaspoons of sugar creates a wide range of deficiencies and toxicities for a period of six to eight hours, causing massive cellular malfunction.”
― Raymond Francis, Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle