Undoctored Quotes

“Conversely, smart choices in food empower health and avert hundreds of health conditions. Food is more powerful than any nutritional supplement, any form of exercise, any prescription drug—nothing matches the power of the choices you make in food.”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“It doesn’t mean that the system is evil or out to screw you; it means that its goals are not aligned with yours, despite the public face it provides. You”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Eat carbohydrates and blood sugar rises. Every first-year medical student knows this, every nurse or diabetes educator knows this, every person with diabetes who performs finger-stick blood sugars before and after meals knows this. Eat any food with more than just a few grams of carbohydrates and blood sugar will rise; the more carbohydrates you eat, the higher blood sugar will rise. Everyone also knows that foods like butter do not raise blood sugar, nor will a fatty cut of meat, olives, green bell peppers, broccoli, or chicken liver. And since the 1980s, when the sharp upward climb in type 2 diabetes (and obesity) began, the only component of diet that has increased is carbohydrates, not fat or proteins.4”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“former grain-eaters can require weeks, months, and occasionally years to recover from the range of disruptive health effects of former grain consumption.”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“White flour products lead to not only diabetes but also colon cancer, heart disease, and weight gain; whole grains also lead to colon cancer, heart disease, and weight gain—just not to the degree that white flour does.”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Health care is the system created to deliver the greatest revenue-generating products and procedures to”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Even without the immediate rise in blood sugar, fructation—glycation by fructose—is eight- to tenfold worse than glycation by glucose.”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Yes, we live in a free-market democracy, but the drug and medical device industries operate more like kleptocracies. Though most of it is legal, it is not ethical and is, in effect, a form of legal extortion. Likewise,”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Spiraling healthcare costs are the expected result because greater revenues are built into the basic principles that drive the system. The”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Health care is the system created to deliver the greatest revenue-generating products and procedures to address illness, but not provide health.”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

“Abrupt cessation of grain consumption, and thereby cessation of gliadin-derived opiates (exorphins), especially from modern wheat, yields an opiate withdrawal syndrome: nausea, headache, fatigue, and depression that typically lasts a week.”
― William Davis, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor