Deborah Kesten > Quotes

“although the mechanism isn’t clear yet, strenuous exercise changes the categories of genes that prevent the development of chronic inflammation, which more and more, is believed to be the underlying cause of many chronic conditions.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“In the late 1800s, average consumption was 5 pounds a year per person; today, the figure has increased to an average of 135 pounds of sugar annually.(3)”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“The fact that we evolved on a host of different diets means there is no ideal diet for all individuals.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“If you spend less on cheap food, you’ll spend more on health care.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“Get grass-fed animal foods. Cattle are grass-eating animals by nature.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“The implications of such science are life-changing, because it tells us that what we eat each day affects not only our health but that of our children and children’s children—for better or worse. We have control over our health and whether we bring our children into the world with genetically coded health advantages—or not.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“eating lots of processed grains has contributed to a host of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and gluten sensitivity.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“a way of eating that merges fresh food with ancient food wisdom and the latest science.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“in only a few months, diet and other lifestyle changes can actually “silence” genes that may lead to prostate cancer.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“if we don’t take action now, we’re choosing to stand by passively and watch as what passes for food today does nothing less than change both our health destiny and the arc of human evolution.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“the standard American diet is at the center of an enormous storm because of its link to poor health,”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“higher level of omega-6 promotes an inflammatory state that leaves us vulnerable to ailments from arthritis, asthma, and fibromyalgia to heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“diet is a major cause of chronic conditions and many ailments such as asthma and ADHD”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“consuming fresh, nutrient-dense food that is additive-free is one of the most empowering steps parents can take to enhance their own health and at the same time, protect the health of their children.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“we can turn around poor health in a short period of time when our genes and body are given the nourishment they need (more specifically, were intended to eat).”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“a change in our food choices—a shift in what we eat each day—holds the timeless genetic secret not only to your health status, but to the health of generations to come—indeed, our very evolution as humans.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“A poor diet can inappropriately switch genes on or off—or worse still, permanently switch them on or off.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“Since we cannot solve the health injuries linked to industrial agriculture with the same mindset that created them, we have to view food and eating in a new way.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“grass-fed cattle produce milk and dairy products, such as butter and cheese, that can be a rich source of fat-soluble vitamins (E, A, K2, and beta-carotene) and minerals (such as selenium).(10)”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“Choose only minimally processed oils and fats that have retained their naturally occurring proportion of nutrients.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“a good diet can repair the switches, making them flexible to circumstances so that they switch on or off as needed to keep our health in balance.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“in addition to gluten sensitivity and lactose intolerance, some of us may need a higher intake of essential vitamins and minerals than others.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“go green and choose organic foods as often as possible, and you’re taking a big step toward turning around the pandemic of ailments plaguing us and our children,”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“environmental pollutants in your food (such as BPA) may injure the epigenome—and your health—as much as, and sometimes even more than, a poor diet.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“to achieve a normal weight, change your relationship to food so your most-of-the-time way of eating becomes a social, health-enhancing, pleasurable experience.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“Organic food is unequivocally higher in health-enhancing nutrients than its conventionally grown counterparts,”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“the more we distance ourselves from ancestral diets, the more we are likely to be eating a health-robbing diet that is far removed from the health- and gene-enhancing diets on which we evolved and thrived.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“your body—including your genes—has a miraculous power to recover when given the nutrients it needs”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

“our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.”
― Deborah Kesten, Pottenger’s Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness