Whole foods Quote by Charles Nguyen

Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I…

— Cynthia Kenyon

“Most processed foods will be refined, meaning that they are heavy in one particular nutrient, sugar, or fat. Your body actually needs a whole…

— Live Nutritive

“Steer clear of sugars in any form (including starchy carbohydrates) because they can be disruptive to the way you process and metabolize foods.”

— Eric Westman MD

“Though you can boil, extract, and refine living tissue to isolate the protein, carb, or fat, you do so only at the cost of…

— Catherine Shanahan

Protein helps your insulin levels not spike and helps you not store your food as fat.

— Gunnar Peterson

We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.

— Ron Rosedale

“The food advice I got at diagnosis was unquestionably the biggest problem, and in retrospect, a true travesty: “You can eat what you want,…

— Adam Brown

“What’s more, as we consume carbohydrates we stimulate an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase that tends to drive fat into the cell; the insulin secreted…

— David Perlmutter

The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you're talking about breakfast, lunch…

— Jay Cutler

“Wolever and Jenkins tested sixty-two foods and recorded the blood-sugar response in the two hours after consumption. Different individuals responded differently, and the variation…

— Gary Taubes

“In short, carbohydrates, especially those such as wheat products that increase blood sugar and insulin most dramatically, initiate a series of metabolic phenomena that…

— William Davis

“Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars. This has important implications for body…

— William Davis