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41 " Wait until you’re really sick,” could be the motto of doctors and hospitals in the current system. “We can do nothing for you until your symptoms surpass the subclinical and reveal themselves in pain, loss of function, or a particularly worrisome test result. Until then, keep calm and keep eating the Standard American Diet. "
― T. Colin Campbell , Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
42 " The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who’s going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy. "
43 " research into the nutritional effects of whole plant foods doesn’t really have market potential. You can’t patent a recommendation to eat lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. "
44 " started to see that none of the accepted “causes” of cancer, in the absence of a high-animal-protein diet, mattered that much. Not genetics, not chemical carcinogens like AF, "
45 " The foods you consume can heal you faster and more profoundly than the most expensive prescription drugs, and more dramatically than the most extreme surgical interventions, with only positive side effects. "
46 " in studying parts out of context, we blind ourselves to wholistic interpretations as well as the real-life solutions to human health those interpretations would provide. "
47 " When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system. "
48 " Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. —ALBERT EINSTEIN "
49 " In brief, the relationship between amount consumed and amount used for virtually all nutrients is not a linear relationship. "
50 " we need to make nutrition the central element of our health-care system. Furthermore, "
51 " sometimes you have to cross the line to find out where it is. "
52 " de una a cuatro horas después de consumir una comida rica en grasas de McDonald’s (un Egg McMuffin, una salchicha McMuffin, dos medallones de carne con patatas, una bebida sin cafeína...), los triglicéridos en el suero sanguíneo se disparan (aumentando el riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca y diabetes, así como de muchos otros trastornos) y las arterias se endurecen (incrementándose la presión arterial). La recuperación a niveles normales de fluidez necesita varias horas. "