Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
Interpretation
Chronic disease often stems from poor diet, and improving our food choices can help restore health.
This quote emphasizes the significant role that diet plays in our health and the development of chronic diseases. It suggests that the choices we make about what we eat contribute to our health problems, but we also have the power to change our diet to improve our health outcomes.
In practice
In a health workshop discussing lifestyle changes, this quote highlights the importance of nutrition in preventing disease.
It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.
When you have a concussion, one of the symptoms that is common is anxiety. Imagine having the normal amount of anxieties that everybody shares - about life and meeting people in social spaces, whatever. Imagine that being multiplied by 10, 20. And so your worry over people's perceptions of you multiplies.
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.
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