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Joel Fuhrman is an American physician, nutritionist, and author. Born on December 2, 1953, he is renowned for his promotion of plant-based diets and nutritional medicine.

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“If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.”

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“In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?”

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“Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.”

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“Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.”

Source: Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

“When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.”

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Book:Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

Source: Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss