America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water,…

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and b…

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all…

- Denis Parsons Burkitt

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

- Denis Parsons Burkitt