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.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
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