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"Jess got so nervous reading it that she made a trip to the kitchen for donuts and coffee before printing it out. She should apply, she knew, but she didn't have the MBA that the announcement called for, and so she wasn't qualified 100 percent. Plus, taking that job would put her in the firing line. She wasn't sure she was up to taking the heat. Did she really want to work that hard? Would she be up to the challenge? For ten days, Jess equivocated, her donut quotient rising to four a day by the end of the application period. She just couldn't seem to get her materials together." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are. WHAT PROTECTS THE MIND PROTECTS THE BODY Bob was stressed out. It was 1969; he had finished his medical residency; and he was just out of the navy, where he debriefed shell-shocked soldiers sent directly from Vietnam to his base in Boston. But work wasn't the problem—he was a young psychoanalyst and he was quite capable." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"I wish they filled donuts with it." The staff at FLAVORx had even performed research to find the best flavors for specific medicines. Prozac, the antidepressant, tasted best when flavored in raspberry, grape, or banana, according to the company's analysis, while Tylenol with codeine went down smoothly when mixed with the artificial essence of citrus punch. At the same time, pharmacies were now selling many drugs that had once been available only by prescription as freely as they sold snacks or cosmetics." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"And adults go off to work without an adequate breakfast, then eat donuts and coffee at ten in the morning and wonder why everything is flashing past them and they're unable to concentrate or complete tasks. The timing of carbohydrates and proteins is very important." Many people, including Peggy Ramundo, have been helped by vegetable chlorophyll green algae, a natural food that appears to stabilize the blood sugar level, provide amino acids in relatively balanced proportion and trace minerals in assimilable form, as well as concentrated sources of beta carotene and vitamin B12." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Fuhrman said, "are potato chips and French fries and donuts and trans-fat-containing sweets and sausages and luncheon meats, pickled, smoked, and barbecued meats. These things that we call 'kid-friendly foods' and put on the kids' menus are in fact the most dangerous foods we can feed children." Dr. Fuhrman wasn't the only doctor I interviewed who commented on these disturbing trends in children's diets. "It's not as if we're finding a 'deficiency' as we'd normally define it, but kids are not eating fresh foods," Dr. Frederica Perera said. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Especially when my boss got cranky, donuts were my salvation. Now once again, I hate to buy clothes, I'm back on medication, my knees ache, and I'm feeling tired and hopeless again." Mary had strong motivation to change, but she depended on food as a source of comfort, and so whenever she encountered problems she overindulged in eating. When the air cleared, she regimented her food intake like a drill sergeant." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Roxy, a forty-five-year-old mother of three, reported that she ate a whole box of donuts after a frustrating afternoon at the mall with her sixteen-year-old daughter. She said to me, "I was so mad at her, what else could I do?" This very intelligent woman couldn't think of even one other option, in spite of my prompting and questioning. Her pattern of stuffing down feelings by stuffing in food was so deeply ingrained in her mind that it short-circuited her common sense." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Does anyone really believe that the body is capable of removing the waste created in a life of eating high-fat fast-food burgers, french fries cooked in beef fat, countless large colas containing 32 teaspoons of sugar, and cream-filled donuts boiled in lard and packed with hydrogenated oil and sugar filling. Then, to top it all off at the end of the day, a half pound of beef jerky and a bag of pork rinds, accompanied by a six pack of beer just to teach the liver a lesson? Okay, so maybe you don't do all that. But remember, what you do do, you do day after day, year after year." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"For the next month, Jess continued to eat donuts daily. She put on 13 pounds by February and alienated the entire management team with her bad attitude. She told herself she should quit before she got fired, but just couldn't muster the energy to start the process of looking for another job. Envy: The Great Informer Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.—Erica Jong As Jess Miller's story illustrates, envy provides a special way to avoid facing challenges. You can use envy to trick yourself into ignoring opportunities." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"I have been off sugar for many years, but I still cannot go into a Dunkin' donuts without vividly recalling the old days when I always had two chocolate doughnuts with my coffee. Plan to keep your other food intake as steady as possible and don't forget to use your food journal. Tell people ahead of time that you are going off sugar and will be going through a detox period. Get their support. Ask them to put away the bowls of candy if they can. This is a big step for you." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"At home and at school, the children are consuming fried chicken nuggets, French fries, potato chips, cookies, pastries, and donuts as if they were going out of style. If that wasn't bad enough, most of these foods are laden with excitotoxic additives that have been shown to produce gross obesity and the relatively new Metabolic Syndrome (also known as syndrome X or insulin resistance syndrome), which is a cluster of conditions that often occur together including obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high lipids, which can lead to cardiovascular disease." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Cakes, sweet rolls, donuts, pastries 3. Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, meat loaf 4. Pizza 5. Potato chips, corn chips, popcorn 6. Rice 7. Rolls, buns, English muffins, bagels 8. Cheese or cheese spread 9. Beer 10. French fries, fried potatoes These findings, Dr. Block concludes, were simply "shocking." We're appalled, as are nutritionists, by this typical American diet. A number of other recent studies also point to the alarming escalation in our consumption of soft drinks and other processed, sugary foods around the globe." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"When people think of junk food, they usually think of items like donuts, chocolate bars, hot dogs, soft drinks, cheeseburgers, fries and so on. Most folks do not realize that some of the less infamous staples they commonly eat, and often believe to be healthy and nourishing, are every bit as deserving of the 'junk' title as the aforementioned foods. Breads, bagels, soup mixes, 'health' bars, breakfast cereals, 'cholesterol-free' vegetable oils, and 'low-fat' biscuits and crackers are just a few of the many 'pseudo-foods' that fall into this very category." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "The Great Nutrient Swindle OK, so you don't eat a lot of cereal products, wouldn't even think of eating such pap as donuts or candy, rarely venture inside a McDonald's, and have long since banished soda from your diet. That's terrific, but don't breathe easy just yet. Recent research shows that, by choosing the wrong cooking method, using commercially frozen produce and eating canned foods, even the most well-meaning and health-conscious individuals may be unwittingly depriving themselves of many of the beneficial nutrients found in fresh foods." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Sweets or Sugary Foods: All calorically sweetened desserts and snack foods such as chocolates, cookies, candies, cakes, donuts, ice cream, sweet rolls, pancakes, pies, soft drinks, fruit-juice blends, sweetened iced teas, and other sweet drinks, as well as chewing gum and breath mints. Hidden Sugars: Sweeteners (often several kinds in one product) added to thousands of prepared products—including those where you'd never expect them. For instance, you'll find hidden sugars in most salad dressings, packaged meats, catsup, cocktail sauce, tomato sauce, and frozen dinners." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The Great White Hoax White flour is ubiquitous in today's food supply, found not only in breads, burger buns, bagels, pastas, donuts and pastries, but also as an ingredient in confectionery, many packaged foods, burgers, sausages, and even delicatessen meats. One cup (125g) of white flour delivers ninety-five grams of carbohydrate, thirteen grams of protein, one gram of fat, and 455 calories." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "That means ditching sugar, donuts, cakes, confectionery, sodas, fruit juices, flavored milks, biscuits, crackers, crisps, French fries, and all packaged products containing corn syrup, sucrose, fructose, dextrose (glucose), maltose, maltodextrin (glucose polymers), fruit juice concentrate, brown rice syrup, maple syrup, date sugar, cane sugar, corn sugar, beet sugar, succanat and lactose. All of these foods provide an abundance of calories and quickly absorbed carbohydrates that send blood sugar levels soaring, but provide little in the way of protective micronutrients." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Here is a short list of foods that you should avoid: fried foods, fast food, candy, cakes, donuts, pastries, anything that is high in sodium, anything laced with fat or sugar (including high fructose corn syrup) and anything that is loaded with trans fats, also known as partially hydrogenated oil or shortening. As part of my health regimen I started eating moderate amounts of whole grains, vegetables and salads without heavy dressing. My staples were broiled chicken, fish, beef and lamb. I avoided eating after 7:00 p.m. when my metabolism starts to slow down." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"This suggests that simply the pleasurable experience of gobbling cakes, pies, cookies, donuts, and candy is enough to release endorphins in the brain. In fact, a growing number of scientists now believe that any palatable food—the "goodies" that really tickle your taste buds—will lead to that endorphin release. This is what's happening when sensitive individuals crave sugar, believes University of Wales in Swansea psychologist David Benton, Ph.D., who theorizes that it's "more plausible that stress or low mood induces eating . . . palatable foods." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"And then there were the desserts—white sugary pastries, glazed donuts, candy bars of all sorts, ice cream, Popsicles, and sodas galore. The irony was that amid all the sugar, artificial sweeteners in pink and blue packaging, refined salt, additives, and food coloring that took up space in our kitchen cabinets, my mother banned packaged, powdered instant drinks that came in strange colors. "They're not healthy for you," said my mom, biting into a piece of white toast with margarine, powdered artificial sweetener, and jelly. My mother, Violet, was from a poor background like my father's." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Ice cream and donuts, which are high in the sugar required to produce the subconsciously desired serotonin hit, are common comfort foods. Giving in to these cravings will satisfy the brain, but this satisfaction is short-lived. And so you eat more serotonin-releasing foods, which eventually leads to more stress, since these refined carbohydrates offer very few nutrients—not having enough nutrients in our diet is a form of nutritional stress and therefore produces a stress response. Simply by having lower levels of Cortisol (meaning less stress), the body will naturally produce more serotonin." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"Well, the amazing thing about fruit is it is perfectly designed for your body and will not upset your blood sugar the way refined sucrose (the sugar in soda, cakes, donuts, candy, etc.) does. In most warm countries such as South Africa, Australia, and many parts of the U.S., where we have an abundance of fruit available all year round at very reasonable prices, it is surprising that so little fruit is actually consumed." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) "I loved to eat donuts, cheese, cookies, junk food, coffee, tea, milk, sugar... sugar... sugar—in fact, anything and everything that was sweet. My mom thinks that your way of eating is the healthy way, so she has your books on our bookshelf at home. I began to read The Natural Way and felt that this was something I could do. I began to eat fruit and vegetables daily, drank lots of water, and ran for fifteen minutes every morning. It was difficult to do this at first but I guess I really needed to see a change in my situation." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"I stopped eating sugars and junk foods, (processed cookies, cakes, donuts, chips, etc). 10. I stopped eating fried foods, processed foods, and fast foods. 11. I stopped holding on to anger and grudges I had. I let them go and now feel a difference in my health. 12. I do something good for myself and my family every day. 13. I tell someone I care about, every day, that I love them, and mean it. 14. I am now much more of a happy and positive-thinking person. This alone has a big impact on your health. 15. I stopped eating and cooking with the wrong types of oils." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"He also desires other things—such as Krispy Kreme donuts and Aunt Jemima's pancakes. The two desires, he knows as well as you do, are incompatible. It is his preferences you see in his waist size, not his desire for weight loss. So is it with matters of money. Assuming you are employed, on welfare, or make your living picking pockets, you too could easily have more money, simply by inaction. Do nothing and let your earnings accumulate. Do not spend them. Instead, let your money go forth and multiply. God commanded Adam to do it. Money and rabbits do it naturally." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"You could be a New York police officer gulping coffee and donuts or living a California back-to-nature lifestyle eating organic vegetables. But if you don't eat correctly, and by this I mean, according to the principles of the Digestive Awareness Diet, you will find yourself suffering the same symptoms and chronic digestive problems regardless of dietary intake. You may be amazed at the variety of body and mind problems that you can resolve when you begin eating correctly. The Digestive Awareness Diet is going to heighten your dietary awareness by showing you how to eat." - John K. Pollard, The Digestive Awareness Diet: You Are HOW You Eat (Get the book.)

"You will have lots of choices for garbage foods: McDonald's, Burger King, KFC,Wendy's, Denny's,Taco Bell, Dunkin' donuts, and more, but you will be hard put to find a restaurant that will serve you fresh vegetables or fish, or free-range chicken. Today when you take a trip, you have to take real food with you. It's not your fault that you can't find real food in the average American town. The food industry conspires to keep real food off the shelves. Why? It's simply not as profitable to sell vegetables, fruits, and nuts as it is to sell Twinkies, candy bars, and chips." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"I ate donuts and pizza and breakfast cereals like Frosted Flakes. I lived on cow's milk, red meat and snack foods made with monosodium glutamate, artificial colors, hydrogenated oils and all sorts of other toxic ingredients. So, if you find yourself being shocked by learning the truth about this, join the club! We're all shocked once we learn the truth about our foods! But now that you know about it, you can do something about it. You can change your future health outcome by choosing foods that actually have their nutritional content intact." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"So the "coffee break" tradition is an insidious factor promoting high-fat, empty-calorie foods such as donuts and sweet rolls. Switching to tea can make fruit and vegetables more palatable and convert this "break" into a preventive opportunity. So drink tea, not coffee, to reduce risk. SKIP FAST-FOOD LUNCHES Just ten years ago, most burgers had a single patty. Now many people eat larger, double burgers, fries, and a soft drink for lunch because it's inexpensive, fast, and easy to eat on the run." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

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