Mark Hyman, M.D. quotes

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. (Mark Hyman, M.D.)
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Just eat less and exercise more.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it's caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry. (Mark Hyman, M.D.)
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
Mark Hyman, M.D.
The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food. (Mark Hyman, M.D.)
The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.
Mark Hyman, M.D.