Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
Interpretation
Chronic disease often stems from poor diet, and improving our food choices can help restore health.
This quote emphasizes the significant role that diet plays in our health and the development of chronic diseases. It suggests that the choices we make about what we eat contribute to our health problems, but we also have the power to change our diet to improve our health outcomes.
In practice
In a health workshop discussing lifestyle changes, this quote highlights the importance of nutrition in preventing disease.
It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.
Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
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