It Starts with Food Quotes

“The food you eat either makes you more healthy or less healthy. Those are your options.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“You cannot “out-exercise” poor food choices and the resulting hormonal disruption.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Genetics loads the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“There is no food neutral; there is no food Switzerland—every single thing you put in your mouth is either making you more healthy or less healthy.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“You cannot “out-exercise” poor food choices ad the resulting hormonal disruption.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Stress affects the activation of reward pathways and impairs your attempts to control your eating habits. Did you catch that? Stress makes it even harder for us to resist our cravings.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“The calcium in vegetable sources may prove more bioavailable (useful to the body) than the stuff you get from milk. One study compared the absorption of calcium from kale and from milk and found kale the clear winner. (Yeah, kale!) Recent studies have shown that plant-sourced calcium in particular increases bone-mineral density and reduces the risk of osteoporosis. This is probably not just due to the calcium content of the plant—the complement of other vitamins (such as vitamin K), minerals, and phytonutrients work synergistically to provide additional benefits to bones. Yet another reason to eat your greens.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“If we were hunting and foraging our food in nature,”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Being chronically underslept, constantly over-exercising, or experiencing chronic psychological stress—a hallmark of modern life—can all trigger unhealthy levels of cortisol in the body. But so can prolonged periods of not eating (extended fasting), or eating too little (excessive calorie restriction).”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Despite what you may believe, habit research shows that dramatic changes are actually easier for us to manage, both physically and psychologically.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“We believe you should consume only foods (and drinks) that support normal, healthy digestive function; eating anything that impairs the integrity of your gut impairs the integrity of your health.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Bring a large pot of salted water to a rolling boil over high heat. Add the green beans and cook until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Drain the beans in a colander, then rinse under cold running water until cool to the touch to stop the cooking process and set”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“My seven-year-old was diagnosed with PDD (similar to autism) at the age of four. He has always had behavior issues (screaming, tantrums, hitting his siblings, hurting himself), and I’ve tried everything I could to change this—including taking parenting classes, because I thought I was doing something wrong. In December 2011, my husband and I were introduced to the Whole30. Within just a few days, he was like a brand-new child! He woke up one morning with a smile on his face, was very compliant, and would even sit down and do his homework without whining and crying about it. We are so happy with the results of our whole family that we have continued to eat clean foods, and we rave about this program to anyone who will listen.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Some are derived from nature, but after chemical processing, Splenda has more in common with pesticides than table sugar.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“troublesome”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“confined to a specific area of the body.   “Full body,” characterized by a highly activated immune system circulating in your bloodstream and”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“even years, which impairs the rebuilding of normal tissues”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Apple, with skin 1 large 3.3 Banana 1 3.1 Blackberries 1 cup 7.6 Orange”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Chronic     Your body’s initial, short-term response to damage. Think of acute inflammation as the cleanup before the rebuilding. It decreases quickly as your body begins the healing process. Acute inflammation is a good thing, and you wouldn’t want to lose that function.     Chronic”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“body’s initial, short-term response to damage. Think of acute inflammation as the cleanup before the rebuilding. It decreases”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Chronic systemic inflammation plays a key role in more than just age-related diseases. Inflammation contributes to a long list of conditions that you may be dealing with right now. Like asthma, allergies, acne, eczema and other skin conditions, depression, ADHD, and mood swings. Do”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Protein     g     146  ”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Calories     kcal     2,318     2,901     (20%)     Protein     g     146     115  ”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“folks. Chronic systemic inflammation plays a key role in more than just age-related diseases. Inflammation contributes to a long list of conditions that you may be dealing with right now. Like asthma, allergies, acne, eczema and other skin conditions, depression, ADHD, and mood swings. Do we have your attention now? EXERCISE AND RECOVERY Chronic systemic inflammation affects your physical fitness, whether you play a sport, are”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Artificial sweeteners may be even more problematic because they are designed to deliver a sweetness hit that is far beyond what you could ever find in nature. Aspartame (Equal) and stevia are 200 to 300 times sweeter than table sugar. Sucralose (Splenda) is 600 times sweeter than table sugar. Saccharin (Sweet’N Low) is up to 700 times sweeter than table sugar.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“The food you eat either makes you more healthy or less healthy. Those are your options.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“the National Institutes of Health estimates that soybeans, usually in the form of oil, now account for an astonishing 10 percent of total calories in the United States. Ten percent of total calories is a lot. These seed oils are ubiquitous because they’re cheap—but they are not healthy.”
― Dallas Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Bread”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Good Sources of Monounsaturated Fats   Avocado     Macadamia nuts     Avocado Oil     Olive Oil     Hazelnuts     Olives  ”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

“Epigenetics is the study of gene expression—whether genes turn on or turn off and how loudly their information is expressed. While we are all born with a certain code, we are also born with switches that tell that code what to do. Our environmental input (diet, exercise, air quality, etc.) activates those switches. Think about it this way: Genetics loads the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.”
― Melissa Hartwig, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways