The Obesity Fix Quotes

“Throwing nutrients into junk food does not produce good food. It produces nutrient-fortified junk.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Obesity Fix: How to Beat Food Cravings, Lose Weight and Gain Energy

“Over the past 100 years we’ve started to consume a higher intake of omega-6 fat from seed oils, which can lead to inflammation and cardiovascular disease.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Obesity Fix: How to Beat Food Cravings, Lose Weight and Gain Energy

“Notably, the French, who consume a lot more flour per capita annually than Americans, have always banned enrichments in their traditional French bread. They also show much lower rates of obesity than the three countries who do use intensive fortification,”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Obesity Fix: How to Beat Food Cravings, Lose Weight and Gain Energy

“A single slice of enriched white bread now has as much appetite-stimulating B vitamins as a medium sweet potato and more riboflavin and niacin than a cup of beans. These enrichments are specifically designed to enable people to eat refined foods as staples, which are rapidly digested and lack the satiating fiber and phytonutrients that are found in whole grains and complex carbohydrates. Moreover, a diet that lacks fermentable fiber promotes diet-induced adiposity.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Obesity Fix: How to Beat Food Cravings, Lose Weight and Gain Energy

“It’s estimated that the average person consumes 400-800 calories worth of added sugars per day, which on a 2000 calorie diet equates to 20-40% of empty calories with no nutritional benefit[843],”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Obesity Fix: How to Beat Food Cravings, Lose Weight and Gain Energy

“From 1850 to the year 2000, global sugar consumption increased by over 100-fold[804]. Nowadays, sugar has been isolated and refined to such a degree that it is added into almost all packaged foods in unnaturally high amounts[805]”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Obesity Fix: How to Beat Food Cravings, Lose Weight and Gain Energy