Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

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

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.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

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

Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life.

My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.

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

Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

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.

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

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

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.

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

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.

Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods like nuts and seeds have profound cardiovascular benefits.

One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

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

Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.

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.

Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.

Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.

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

We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.

Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are associated with lower risk of cancers, and substances contained in these foods display anti-cancer or immune-boosting properties.

Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.

Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

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

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

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

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.

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

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.

Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.