Steven Lin > Quotes

“We are a species with amnesia, who effectively forgot how to feed itself.”
― Steven Lin, The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health

“Dental disease—as we know it today—appeared only after the Industrial Revolution, when processed foods became prevalent in modernized society. Our mouths were healthy for thousands and thousands of years, but this changed remarkably once the industrialized food system was introduced.”
― Steven Lin, The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health

“Take fresh garlic, for instance. If we put it in hot oil or hot foods right away, we destroy its ability to produce allicin, an important cancer-fighting compound. But if you simply chop it and set it aside for 10 minutes, during the time that it’s resting, the garlic makes copious amounts of allicin. And once it forms, it is not destroyed by later cooking.”
― Steven Lin, The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health

“I am entirely serious when I suggest that it is a very myopic medical science which works backward from the morgue rather than forward from the cradle.”
― Steven Lin, The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health