Joel Fuhrman

“We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.”

“Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.”

“Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.”

“Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.”

“Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.”

“Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.”

“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.”

“If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.”

“Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.”

“It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.”

“Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.”

“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.”

“To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.”