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"The point of beginning your diary in your Prep & Practice Week is threefold: it will help you find a format that works for you; it will get you in the habit of recording your food choices; and finally, and perhaps most significantly, it will give you an overview of your food choice patterns. You'll be able to learn the answers to some very important questions and these answers will help you personalize your SuperFoodsRx Diet. For example: Do you eat when stressed? Do you "graze" all day? Do you overeat while watching TV? Do you nibble when bored? Are you "starving"' for a snack at 4:00 p." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Habit # 3: Bounce Back If IVe made a poor food choice, I don't use that as an excuse to eat everything in sight. Habit # 4: Keep Your Weight in Mind I keep my weight in mind when I make food choices. Habit # 5: Avoid Junk Food I mostly avoid junk food. Habit # 6: Exercise Enough I exercise enough to stay healthy. Habit # 7: Control Your Portions I know how to properly control the amount of food I eat. Habit # 8: Prevent Binges I know when I'm about to binge and can stop myself. Habit # 9: Savor Your Food I eat good food in a slow way so that I enjoy it." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"While in the last forty years soy has occupied an important place in the transition from an unhealthy meat-based diet to vegetarian and vegan cuisine, it is time for us to upgrade our food choice to one having more benefits, and fewer negative possibilities. In 1986, Stuart Berger, MD, placed soy among the seven top allergens—one of the "sinister seven."21 At the time, most experts listed soy around tenth or eleventh. Bad enough, but way behind peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, shellfish, fin fish, and wheat." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The most amazing thing about human life is that we can discover our form, function, and food choice design and choose to follow it, therefore actualizing the highest potential of our species. That is the purpose of this book. We will discover the specifics of our natural food choice design in Lesson 11: The Secret Revealed. Natural Selection And The Species Boundary Returning back to the discussion of evolution, we find that natural selection (the primary agent of species creation under the evolutionary theory) is a tautology - it can be made to explain anything." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"While it contains all the essential amino acids, omega-3 fatty acids and B Vitamins, its toxic properties make it an undesirable food choice except when fermented and used sparingly as a condiment, which is how the Asians consume it. They generally have only two teaspoons of soy a day. The Gerson Institute puts soy on its forbidden food list. The Vitamin Bi2 analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's need for Bi2. The high levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Cross-domain variety seeking in human food choice. Appetite 16, 57-59. 223. Ledikwe, J. H., Rolls, B. J., Smiciklas-Wright, H., et al. (2007). Reductions in dietary energy density are associated with weight loss in overweight and obese participants in the PREMIER trial. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 85, 1212-1221. 224. Howarth, N. C, Huang, T. T., Roberts, S. B., Lin, B. H., and McCrory, M. A. (2007). Eating patterns and dietary composition in relation to BMI in younger and older adults. Int. J. Obes. (Land.) 31, 675-684. 225. Jackson, M., Walker, S., Forrester, T., Cruickshank, J. K., and Wilks, R." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Although the sensory properties of foods are important determinants of food choice, they also elicit a cascade of physiological responses, termed cephalic phase responses, that are believed to optimize the digestion of foods and the absorption and utilization of their nutrients by activating many, if not all, normal ingestive and postingestive processes [75-77]. Cephalic phase responses are typically small and transient, but by modulating postingestive responses, their impact may be magnified." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"A chocolate bar fortified with probiotics is still a chocolate bar—a sugar-filled, fatty food choice with little nutritional value. Choose your probiotic product wisely and you'll enjoy healthy living. Probiotics in Supplements Walking down the supplement aisle used to frighten me. There were so many choices, species, potencies and marketing messages on the probiotics. However, the information provided in this book has made you an expert. You will surely find the supplement aisle a more pleasant experience now." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"You'll need to prove to yourself, one food choice at a time, that you won't go crazy the way your expectancy pattern predicts. Going crazy is a catastrophe prediction. The image in her mind is that if she doesn't have food immediately at hand, that absence will drive her crazy. That image is entirely at odds with reality. Assuming that she's a well-functioning adult with the ability to go to the grocery store and pay for food, then food is no more than a few minutes away. Her image is a memory of unfulfilled expectancy." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "YouTl have to prove this to yourself—one experience at a time, one food choice at a time—until who you are and how you deal with life are different. It won't happen all at once. Remember that you've reinforced your powerlessness for years every time you chose to eat instead of tackling what was really bothering you. It will take time to unravel, but it can be done. In fact, every person who has achieved lifelong weight loss and given up their obsession with food has learned to do it." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"BEYOND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY One of the repeated themes of this book is that the way food is situated in today's society discourages healthful food choices, and that food company marketing strategies have much to do with the social environment of food choice. Food company executives bristle when I say things like this, and you might feel some sympathy for them when they are forced to defend themselves against such complaints. After all, food companies are not deliberately trying to make people gain weight or become sick. They are only trying to stay in business and please their stockholders." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"In that pause, you might be able to let your feelings tell you what they're really longing for and not eat at all, or at the very least you might be able to make a better food choice. Reconfirming That You're an Emotional Eater In part one, we defined emotional eating, and you saw to some degree how it functions in your life. However, it's very easy to backpedal and begin denying that: you personally are struggling with emotional eating. Fortunately, there's a very easy way to decide whether you really are an emotional eater—we'll look at your symptoms." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Willingly or not you participate in the environment of food choice. The choices you make about food are as much about the kind of world you want to live in as they are about what to have for dinner." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"This is one of the biggest labeling scams out there," charges Michele Simon, author of Appetite for Profit and founder/director of the Center for Informed food choice (CIFC). "The federal government said to eat more whole grains but these processed-food companies are just adding a little whole grain and then slapping big labels on the box. And they're spinning these new cereals ... as healthier when they're not." Indeed, many cereals contain lots of added sugars and processed carbs despite the whole-grain claim." - 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.)

"As such, it is a highly questionable food choice for premenopausal women, a group that is often troubled by sub-optimal iron status(55). Soy foods are also unusually high in aluminum, a metal that has been implicated in promoting Alzheimer's disease(56). Individuals who are susceptible to kidney stones have been warned against consuming soy foods due to their high concentrations of oxalate, a compound that can bind with calcium in the kidney to form kidney stones(57)." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"To make informed decisions about food choice, you need truth in advertising, the whole truth and nothing but. Supermarkets could do more to help you make better dietary choices if they made it convenient for you to make those choices. By this time, you know what that would take: put healthier foods where it is easier to get to them, advertise them, price them attractively, and give healthier foods the same kind of marketing attention that gets paid to junk foods." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The diet will also help you get into the healthful food choice habit. Once you do, you will find that the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome tend to disappear. Therefore, CFS is one of those conditions where you're not actually treating the symptoms of the disease itself, but rather focusing on holistic health transformation. Once you are able to achieve that holistic health transformation, the Syndrome itself will automatically disappear." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "It all comes back to food choice and nutrition. My advice is stay away from dairy products and avoid excess sodium, because that can deplete your body of water. Make sure you hydrate fully, then begin a program of nutritional recovery that includes plant-based foods and re-mineralization. Also, be sure to avoid overusing commercial laxatives as a stop-gap measure. The goal is to keep your bowels naturally functioning like a well-oiled machine, rather than making them dependent on medications to run properly." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "When it comes to food choice, aim for the alkaline end of the spectrum: fresh vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, unprocessed foods, and so on. The second step is to get excellent nutrition. The key mineral here is calcium—yet most people, even though they're taking calcium for their bones, cannot effectively absorb that calcium because they lack vitamin D due to the fact that they are afraid of sunlight exposure. With most Americans being chronically deficient in vitamin D, they simply cannot absorb calcium and use it in their skeletal system." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The current environment of food choice is not inevitable. Many of the ways in which it encourages eating more —ubiquitous advertising, food available everywhere, larger and larger portions, unchecked marketing to children, weak government regula- I I nrealistic as these ideas may appear, Hon - have evolved in response to the vJ they suggest ways in which the food demands of big business. Many of environment could be changed for the these "eat more" changes have oc- better. The current environment of food curred just since the early 1980s. They cnoi?is not inevitable, can be reversed." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"We will discover the specifics of our natural food choice design in Lesson 11: The Secret Revealed. Natural Selection And The Species Boundary Returning back to the discussion of evolution, we find that natural selection (the primary agent of species creation under the evolutionary theory) is a tautology - it can be made to explain anything. For example, evolutionists claim plant-mimicry among insects is beneficial and will be selected for, but they also claim that warning-warrior colorations, such as insect stripes, are beneficial and will be selected for." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Marion Nestle, professor and former chair of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, sums up the changes that are necessary in our food and nutrition policy quite well: "Existing food policies could be tweaked to improve the environment of food choice through small taxes on junk foods and soft drinks (to raise funds for anti-obesity campaigns); restrictions on food marketing to children, especially in schools and on television; calorie labels on fast foods; and changes in farm subsidies to promote the consumption of fruits and vegetables." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Unrefined carbohydrates, with their full complement of minerals, vitamins, enzymes, and fiber can be a healthy food choice. Unrefined carbohydrates contain naturally occurring sugars found in many food products such as fruits and vegetables. Refined carbohydrates, on the other hand, contain little or no nutrients and are not healthy for the body. Avoid refined carbohydrates in the forms of white sugar, soft drinks, and candies that give you plenty of calories but little or no nutrients. A diet of excess refined carbohydrates (e.g." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"Take a moment now to close your eyes and think of a food choice that you know you are having too much of and is causing you problems. Now think of the symptoms or dis-eases that it is causing in your body. Feel those conditions in your body, pain, bloating, headache, high blood pressure, post-nasal drip or If you don't whatever it is. Really feel how these things feel in your body and give your body how mucri yOU dislike having them, while continuing to visualize To^canT^5' *^at *°OC* c mat is causinS or contributing to them. Make that , association." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"The alternate food choice box on page 250 may help you identify food products that contain some of the more common food allergens, particularly cow's milk. • Maintain adequate nutrient intake. The alternate food choice box offers a list of many alternate complex carbohydrates to replace wheat or whatever other carbohydrates you have listed in step 1, and many sources of animal protein to replace beef or chicken or whatever animal proteins you listed. Alternate sources of milk products are also listed." - Ralph Golan, M.D., Optimal Wellness (Get the book.)

"Post Shredded Wheat 'N Bran is another excellent food choice. It's high in fiber and nutrients and low in salt and simple sugars—a great breakfast choice. My patients have told me that they find my specific food recommendations particularly helpful. I'm sure you will, too. THE SUPERFOOD RX RECIPES Chef Michel Stroot is the world-famous chef at one of the best-known spas in the world—the Golden Door in Escondido, California. He knows how challenging it can be to satisfy and delight demanding patrons who are used to dining in the finest five-star restaurants." - Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews, SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"In fact, this is one of the major hindrances people face today when it comes to knowing what is a healthy food choice and what is not. It seems that as soon as the implications of the latest dietary study starts to sink in, whether legitimate or manipulated, another one comes along to contradict it. Some prime examples include: eggs are bad for you, eggs are good for you; margarine is better than butter, margarine is worse than butter; fiber is good, fiber doesn't matter, etc." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "You just need to know what a wise food choice is, how to prepare it, and then eat it. It's really very simple. easy as A, B, C The business of Eating for Health may at first appear complex because much of the information will be new to you. For reassurance, remember when you were first learning the 26 letters of the alphabet, with their different sounds, long vowels, short vowels, consonants, etc. That all seemed complex and a little overwhelming in the beginning as well." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"But you'll never see conventional medicine talk about a diabetes cure, unless of course it happens to be promoting one of Big Pharma's new diabetes drugs. The diabetes industry, meanwhile, claims to be searching for a cure for the disease. That's sort of like spending millions of dollars searching for a cure for "lawn discoloration disease" when all you need to do is water the grass. But talk of such simple cures isn't tolerated in conventional medicine today. The origins of fictitious disease There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Next time you are faced with this food choice and give you what , . , . , , . . „ you need? start thinking it is so hard to resist, once again, STOP! Remember how it makes you feel and ask yourself, is it any easier to have Debbie Sarfati _ / fill in the blank with the symptoms or dis-eases you experience associated with this food. Then make your decision. You may decide to eat it anyway. We all do from time to time. But at least you have made a conscious decision. That's the most important thing to start." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

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