Andrew Weil Quotes

United States, Author
June 8, 1942

Andrew Thomas Weil (/waɪl/, born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity doctor who is a physician, author, spokesperson, and broadly described "guru" of the alternative medical brands: holistic health and integrative medicine, whose name also constitutes an emerging brand of healthcare services and products in these fields.

Also known as Physician, Celebrity

I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.

Andrew Weil
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Andrew Weil
- America
- Culture
- Food

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

Andrew Weil
- People
- Up
- Exercise
The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

Andrew Weil
- Stop