American - Scientist | December 2, 1953 -
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
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The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.
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Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.
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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.
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Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.
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A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.
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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.
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The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.
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The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.
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Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.
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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.
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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.
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