We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they’re called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
Joel Fuhrman
The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.
Joel Fuhrman
Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health… you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.
Joel Fuhrman
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
Joel Fuhrman
Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients – they are among the best foods you can eat.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
We can reduce these cancer rates – breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer – by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.
Joel Fuhrman
Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.
Joel Fuhrman
Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.
Joel Fuhrman
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
Joel Fuhrman
Dieting by portion control doesn’t work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
Joel Fuhrman
Chemicals are not currently tested for their endocrine disruption potential before they are approved for use and enter our environment, and there are endocrine disruptors in a vast array of products we come into contact with every day, including organochlorine pesticides, plastics, fuels, and other industrial chemicals.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.
Joel Fuhrman
It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
Don’t forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!
Joel Fuhrman
Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body – however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
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?
Joel Fuhrman
The right raw materials can… double or triple the protective power of the immune system.
Joel Fuhrman
We’re not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We’ve got to prevent it.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it’s quite likely you will develop heart disease.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.
Joel Fuhrman
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.
Joel Fuhrman
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect – food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
Joel Fuhrman
When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure – so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.
Joel Fuhrman
If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
Joel Fuhrman
If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.
Joel Fuhrman
The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.
Joel Fuhrman
The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.
Joel Fuhrman
Meeting the body’s micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
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.
Joel Fuhrman
I have appeared on ‘The Dr. Oz show’ and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.
Joel Fuhrman
Doctors’ positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.
Joel Fuhrman
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
Joel Fuhrman