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 Food
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. -Joel Fuhrman Diet
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 Diet
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 Diet
To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based. -Joel Fuhrman Diet
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 Diet
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 Best
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 Diet
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. -Joel Fuhrman Environmental
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 Health
The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds. -Joel Fuhrman Diet
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 Diet
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 Diet
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 Diet
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. -Joel Fuhrman Diet
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 Diet
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 Medical
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 Diet
A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach. -Joel Fuhrman Diet
