Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.
Interpretation
Staying updated with nutritional science is crucial for promoting a healthy diet centered on whole plant foods.
This quote emphasizes the importance of evolving our dietary recommendations based on the latest scientific evidence. It suggests that a truly effective diet should be grounded in continuous learning and adaptability, particularly highlighting that a focus on whole plant foods has consistently been supported by research.
In practice
This quote can be used in a nutrition workshop to highlight the importance of adapting dietary advice.
Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor one.
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