Marc David > Quotes

“We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then we’ll get the results we’ve been looking for—and sooner than we expect.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“Consider, for example, the tomato. If the soil it grows in is depleted, then the tomato has measurably low mineral content, less natural sugar, and more acids, which means it will be tough, tasteless, and nutritionally inferior. If it is sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, it will carry instructional messages to your body that are carcinogenic,”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“As we get older the brain actually gets smarter.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“researchers have observed a significantly greater flow of neural traffic from the ENS to the head-brain than from the head-brain to the ENS.6”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“mutagenic, and neurotoxic. If it is grown on an impersonal factory farm, the tomato will be lifeless and have no charm. If it is picked by an underpaid migrant worker who’s given no benefits and few worker’s rights, then the tomato is hypocritical and lacks integrity. If it is chopped by machine along with thousands of other tomatoes, delivered to a fast-food joint, and slapped together with a bun and meat from a cow who suffered even worse traumas, then our tomato is now suicidal, or even murderous, because it has lost its soul and has no reason to live. I think you get the picture.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“using skincare products that you can almost eat.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“chronic sinus complaints, nasal or lung congestion, postnasal drip, digestive sensitivity, headaches, multiple allergies, and dry skin, you are a great candidate to experiment with a diet free of all milk and dairy-containing products”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“Eating with awareness is the most important and powerful tool to transform your relationship to food and the body. Once you begin to practice it, it becomes a lifelong habit. There is no goal or ideal to strive for. All there is to do is eat, observe, and accept. No matter what kind of food you eat or nutritional system you follow, eating with awareness is”
― Marc David, Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being

“They also have less xenotoxins—humanmade substances such as pesticides and herbicides that function as antinutrients and disease agents. Organic simply means “real.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“crafty that it convinces the brain that it’s real sugar, so the body releases insulin to help metabolize the artificial sugar. Since there is no real sugar present, the excess insulin, with nothing to do, performs its other evolutionary task, which is to signal the body to store fat. As well, there is firmly mounting evidence that aspartame is a significant neurotoxin. So my professional advice to you is this: If you have any synthetically sweetened foods in your home, step on them to ensure you kill them, then toss them out.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“Sacred chemistry is a meta-chemistry.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss

“That’s why about nine out of ten people I speak to who say they have an overeating problem don’t. Their problem is that they don’t eat when they eat.”
― Marc David, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss