The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet Quotes

“J. Morris Hicks, who wrote Healthy Eating, Healthy World, has this to say about our obsession with protein: Because of the mistaken, yet almost ubiquitous, belief that we humans actually “need” to eat animal protein to be healthy, incredibly powerful solutions to our sustainability crisis don’t even make it to the table for consideration. For this reason, I consider that “protein myth” to be the most serious obstacle in the history of humanity. For if we cannot take the “animal out of the equation” when it comes to feeding humans… the future of our civilization (and even our species) is in peril.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” It’s a catchy maxim. It’s simple. On first glance it makes sense. The phrase was coined by Michael Pollan, renowned professor, journalist, and best-selling author of In Defense of Food, who was instructing his readers on how to navigate the “incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“If the milligrams of sodium are more than the calories per serving, leave it on the shelf. In other words, the ratio of sodium to calories should be no more than 1: 1.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“And not only do plants offer plenty of calcium, they offer better calcium: the calcium in plants is absorbed twice as well as the calcium from milk.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“Meat, fish, dairy, poultry, and eggs almost universally have high levels of sulfur-containing amino acids, which are metabolized by the body into sulfuric acid. The”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“Pop quiz: Which has more protein per calorie, beef or broccoli? Yup. Broccoli. This green bodybuilding machine has 15.5 percent more protein per calorie than beef.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“A study published in the Nutrition Journal ranked hibiscus tea number one in total antioxidant content of all 280 beverages examined. In addition to anticancer effects, hibiscus tea has been found to be extremely effective against high blood pressure.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“And how about India? The country that eats more grains than any other country has the world’s lowest rate of Alzheimer’s.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

“The sad reality is that every forty-three seconds someone has a heart attack; and every minute and twenty-three seconds someone in America dies from a massive heart attack.”
― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health