The sad truth is that the proliferation of wheat products…

Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.

— William Davis

“Consume rarely or never Wheat products—wheat-based breads, pasta, noodles, cookies, cakes, pies, cupcakes, breakfast cereals, pancakes, waffles, pita, couscous; rye, bulgur, triticale, kamut, barley…

— William Davis

“However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted…

— James E. McWilliams

Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease,…

— Sharon Gannon

“There’s a lot more to the Paleo diet than removing food toxins from your diet. That said, if everyone on a standard American diet…

— Chris Kresser

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so…

— Joel Fuhrman

The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the…

— Michael Pollan

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you…

— Jack LaLanne

For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing…

— Don Kardong

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed…

— Joel Fuhrman

“A Standard American Diet (SAD) may eventually kill you.”

— Steven Magee

People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat…

— Jack LaLanne

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

— Tom Brady

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to…

— Mark Bittman

“While Primal eating is low-carb in comparison to the Standard American Diet, it advocates abundant consumption of nutritious carbs such as all vegetables and…

— Mark Sisson