The Pleasure Trap Quotes

“The march of history is that of the human race obeying the mantra of the motivational triad—attempting to attain more pleasure, for less pain, with ever-greater efficiency.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“Keep in mind that getting control of any addictive-type problem nearly always requires multiple efforts. If at first you don't fully succeed, keep trying and keep learning; remember, most cigarette smokers finally quit on the eighth serious attempt.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“Sleep experts now believe that it is in fact sleep debt, and not alcohol use, that is the leading cause of lethal auto accidents in the United States.?”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“The most common complaint heard by primary care physicians today is fatigue, and the most common cause of fatigue is sleep deprivation.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“Our desire for sleep, like our desire for food, obeys a law of satiation. The attempt to circumvent this law will cause impaired mental and physical performance.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“Optimal results are not achievable without optimal behavior.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“The close proximity of large numbers of domesticated animals to humans led to plagues and pestilence. In fact, the most potent killers of humanity since the dawn of civilization have not been warfare, natural disaster, or starvation; they have been epidemics resulting directly from animal husbandry. The desire for meat, fish, fowl, eggs, and dairy products has been one of humanity's most dangerous desires.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“The major killers of humanity since 8500 B.C. have not been starvation, warfare, accidents, or large predators. While these were major threats in our hunter-gatherer days, the dawn of civilization brought about new problems. The major threats to human life since 8500 B.C.—microorganisms and viruses such as smallpox, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, plague, measles, and cholera—have been literally invisible. These infectious agents, which we may refer to as "micropredators," all have something of importance in common: each evolved from a disease in domesticated animals that then adapted to, and infected, human societies.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“The truth is that the overwhelming majority of diseases threatening you and your loved ones are preventable, but not effectively treatable.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“You and your loved ones need to know that your health is largely in your own hands, and no one else's. What needs to be understood is that health is the natural, spontaneous consequence of healthful living. It is rarely the consequence of expensive or complicated medical care.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“As his career blossomed, Campbell became one of the most respected nutritional biochemists in the world. A scientist with a diversity of research interests, Campbell was particularly interested in the connection between toxic chemicals and cancer. As fate would have it, he happened upon an obscure research paper, published in India, reporting on a study in which rats exposed to a Class IA carcinogen (aflatoxin) were fed either a 5 percent protein diet or a 20 percent protein diet. Campbell found himself puzzled by the results, which were completely counterintuitive: Every single rat fed the 20 percent protein diet developed liver cancer or its precursor lesions, whereas not a single animal fed the 5 percent protein diet developed liver cancer or a precursor lesion!”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. —Thomas A. Edison”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“Breaking any had habit is hard to do, but breaking apart a pleasure-trap cycle can he the most difficult challenge of a lifetime. The change of even a single factor, such as removing morning caffeine, will often result in a person temporarily feeling worse, as they experience unwelcome fatigue as well as the headaches, nausea, and anxiety characteristic of drug withdrawal.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“Nearly all weight problems are resolvable through the adoption of a diet derived from fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. If you are currently overweight, it is not necessary to utilize restraint on portion size, only on portion content.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and find that fasting so effectively removes the antigen/antibody complexes from your body's tissues that you may he pain-free, possibly for the first time in”
― Douglas J. Lisle, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

“adding something, and therefore "doing something," seems much more intuitively reasonable than subtracting the "unlikely" causes and letting the body heal itself.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“In the game of chess, an experienced player may take a novice to the brink of defeat in just three moves. The fourth move can be checkmate, and the kingdom is lost.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness

“If we then follow the evidence and the logic, we can assume that the solution is to subtract foods of excess from our daily fare. And, as we subtract meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy products, oil, salt, sugar, and refined carbohydrates from our diet, what remains are foods that promote health. Fresh fruits and vegetables, tubers, whole grains, legumes, and nuts and seeds fill the void after the subtraction has taken place. In response, the previously overburdened body begins to regain its health.”
― Douglas J. Lisle, Pleasure Trap, the: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness