Mark Hyman Quotes

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman

Life, Beauty, Wrong

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.
Mark Hyman

May, Friends, Matter

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
Mark Hyman

Food, Brain, Chemistry

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
Mark Hyman

Health, Power, Far

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
Mark Hyman

Someone, May, Battle

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
Mark Hyman

Thinking, Brain, Getting

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
Mark Hyman

Food, Important, Put

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Mark Hyman

School, Live, Children

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Mark Hyman

Food, Real, Natural

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.
Mark Hyman

Food, Amazing, Simple

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
Mark Hyman

Might, Church, Healthy

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
Mark Hyman

Law, Physics, Argue

Just eat less and exercise more.
Mark Hyman

Less, Exercise, Eat

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.
Mark Hyman

Change, Work, Diet

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
Mark Hyman

Food, Children, Deep

My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.
Mark Hyman

Down, Give, Become

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
Mark Hyman

Happen, Kids, Call

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.
Mark Hyman

Learning, Pain, Heart

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.
Mark Hyman

Meaning, Miss, Either

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
Mark Hyman

Bad, Economics, National

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
Mark Hyman

Nature, Mother, Seems

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
Mark Hyman

Health, Best, Place

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
Mark Hyman

End, Balance, Body

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
Mark Hyman

Best, Food, Diet

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.
Mark Hyman

Working, Practice, Medicine

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