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"Nature cures and the
doctor sends the bill"
"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food"
-Hippocrates
Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a
misprint
-Mark Twain
"You can't have a fat free body unless you get rid
of your brain and central nervous system" -Robert
Crayhon
“Boys, life is a relentless progression towards death,
disease, and decay, the physicians job is to slow the rate
of decline." -1950's reductionist college professor
People are attracted by those whose traits they lack and
repelled by those who have traits they deny in themselves.
I've tried caution, I have tried forethought, for now on,
I've made myself mad" -Rumi
"There are a few good people among those who speak
well"
"You don't have a disease, you are just starved, toxic
and stressed."
"Your body
in the future is a consequence of your food in the present"
If you were
going to spend your whole life informing people that were
misinformed, you would spend your whole life informing people
who were misinformed".-John Erickson
If you read the American Heart Association Cookbook with
a modern biochemistry and paleolithic perspective, the American
Heart Association actually cause heart disease. -John
Erickson
“There are major differences between USA Diet Plans®
and the way the average American thinks about nutrition:
it’s like comparing two different religions. If you're
Christian its Jesus, if your Jewish it's Moses, and if Islamic
it's Mohammed. How you eat is also a religion. People who
follow the Weight Watchers orthodoxy typically think fat
is the devil, the Atkins faith fears carbohydrates, the
Food Guide Pyramid worships vitamins and minerals. I put
my faith in the balanced approach.” -John
Erickson
“Calorie counting philosphies like Weight Watchers
and the Food Guide Pyramid visualize protein, carbohydrate
and fat being shoveled into the fire pit of the body. USA
Diet Plans® can predict what goes into the shovel.”
-John Erickson
“You better hope the calorie model is wrong. If the
calories in/calories out theory was correct, you would have
to walk 90 minutes to burn off the amount of ‘calories’
found in one ounce of cheese! Intuitively it doesn’t
make sense.” -John Erickson
"The other day I saw an on-foot mailman with a huge
pot belly -so much for the calories in/calories out theory"
-John Erickson
"The human body has no organ dedicated to counting
calories.” -John Erickson
"I know more about nutritional theory and practice
than every customer service representative of Weight Watchers,
South Beach, Jenny Craig, Zone diet, Nutra-system, and Atkins
combined" -John
Erickson
