Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Think of enzymes in terms of spark plugs in your car and gasoline as the energy substrate the spark plugs work on. The spark plugs don't determine whether or not the gasoline will burn. Instead, they provide the ignition needed to release the energy in the gasoline, creating the explosion of power needed to move the car forward. The amount of gasoline you supply to the spark plugs will, in large part, determine their efficiency. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 You are spraying gasoline on the fire by continuing to eat the very same foods that caused the disease in the first place.
I don't want my patients to pour a single thimbleful of gasoline on the fire. Stopping the gasoline puts out the fire. Reforming the way you eat will end the heart disease.
Here are the rules of my program in their simplest form:
• You may not eat anything with a mother or a face (no meat, poultry, or fish).
• You cannot eat dairy products.
• You must not consume oil of any kind—not a drop. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| The spark plugs don't determine whether or not the gasoline will burn. Instead, they provide the ignition needed to release the energy in the gasoline, creating the explosion of power needed to move the car forward. The amount of gasoline you supply to the spark plugs will, in large part, determine their efficiency. If they are not given enough gas, the spark plugs will still burn what they are given, but the explosion will be inefficient and may not be powerful enough to move the car. The engine will sputter, and, if there is not enough gas to keep it going, it will die. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 In cellular respiration, sugars are literally burned up just as a car burns gasoline. And just as in the car, the burning of glucose is not completely efficient. About 40 percent of the energy and food is converted into ATP. Some of the unburned sugar leaks out and creates free radicals—just as in the car. These cellular pollutants cause a lot of damage.
A car has an engine, and cells have the mitochondria. As gasoline is fuel to the car, protein, fat, and carbohydrates are fuel to the body. But not all fuels are created equal. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Because glucose is fuel for your body, in many ways it is like gasoline for your car. If you run out of glucose, your body will "quit" just like when your car runs out of gas. Likewise, whenever your blood glucose levels are elevated, it creates a toxic mess just as it would if you spilled gasoline when you were filling your car. In optimal health, the body maintains very tight control over blood glucose levels and it works very hard to keep those levels within a narrow range.
When blood glucose levels surge too high, excessive glucose cannot be readily taken up by cells. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| I don't want my patients to pour a single thimbleful of gasoline on the fire. Stopping the gasoline puts out the fire. Reforming the way you eat will end the heart disease.
Here are the rules of my program in their simplest form:
• You may not eat anything with a mother or a face (no meat, poultry, or fish).
• You cannot eat dairy products.
• You must not consume oil of any kind—not a drop. (Yes, you devotees of the Mediterranean Diet, that includes olive oil, as I'll explain in Chapter 10.)
• Generally, you cannot eat nuts or avocados. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| It's your gasoline. The process of breaking down sugar is no different from the process of combustion in the car. In cellular respiration, sugars are literally burned up just as a car burns gasoline. And just as in the car, the burning of glucose is not completely efficient. About 40 percent of the energy and food is converted into ATP. Some of the unburned sugar leaks out and creates free radicals—just as in the car. These cellular pollutants cause a lot of damage.
A car has an engine, and cells have the mitochondria. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| The amount of gasoline you supply to the spark plugs will, in large part, determine their efficiency. If they are not given enough gas, the spark plugs will still burn what they are given, but the explosion will be inefficient and may not be powerful enough to move the car. The engine will sputter, and, if there is not enough gas to keep it going, it will die. The amount of substrate (gasoline) provided to the enzymes (spark plugs) is key to efficient operation.
While your car has a fuel gauge telling you how much energy you have left in the tank, your cells do not. |
| Instead, they provide the ignition needed to release the energy in the gasoline, creating the explosion of power needed to move the car forward. The amount of gasoline you supply to the spark plugs will, in large part, determine their efficiency. If they are not given enough gas, the spark plugs will still burn what they are given, but the explosion will be inefficient and may not be powerful enough to move the car. The engine will sputter, and, if there is not enough gas to keep it going, it will die. |
Ron Garner
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 We wouldn't think of putting diesel fuel in a gasoline engine or dirty oil in the crankcase. Similarly, we try to take care of our household plants and gardens so they will yield good blossoms, fruit, and vegetables. We wouldn't use salted water, soft drinks, or alcoholic beverages on the potted plants in our houses, or feed them grease from cooking. If we want them to be healthy, we cultivate and nourish the soil. We know that they need clean water, air, sunshine, and agreeable temperatures.
Yet, when it comes to our bodies, we typically ignore common sense. |
Devra Davis
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 On February 2, 1923, the world's first leaded gasoline was introduced, touted as a salve for engine knocks and pings caused by incomplete combustion. That same year, in a small General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, the two workers responsible for bottling liquid lead died. The production line was shut down in April 1924. Charles Kettering, chief of GM's effort to develop leaded fuels, blamed the workers.
"We could not get this across to the boys," he said. |
| After an explosion of leaded gasoline in 1923, he spent the last forty years of his life locked awav in a psychiatric hospital, unable to speak or communicate with others. To the rest of his family, he had simply died that year. Only his wife and son knew he was alive. His grandchildren and other family members did not learn what had happened to him until historian Bill Kovarik put all the pieces together in 2005.8
As one of the top specialists on how to train workers and set up plants so that men did not die working with this liquid brain poison, Kehoe fit easily into the corporate world. |
| In particular they had developed, at great expense, a large number of methods of testing gasoline for different uses. On the basis of their experiments they had recognized the good antiknock quality of iso-octane long before they had any knowledge of our hydrogenation process. This is proved by the single fact that in America fuels are graded in octane numbers, and iso-octane was entered as the best fuel with the number 100. All this knowledge naturally became ours as a result of the agreement, which saved us much effort and protected us against many errors. |
Ron Garner
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| If we put dirty gasoline into the fuel tank of a car, we know it will not be able to function properly, perform smoothly, and provide trouble-free service for us. However, we regularly do something similar with our bodies. Why?
We do not seem to realize that junk, processed, and chemically-enriched foods are very harmful to our bodies. We have not educated ourselves nor have we been educated about the true nutritional requirements our bodies have. We have been conditioned by our family upbringing, advertising, and busy lifestyles to eat foods that have been prepared in certain ways. |
Devra Davis
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| The War Department's official, unsigned letter on the matter, sent to the heads of Standard Oil, General Motors and Ethyl on December 15, 1934, was clear:
I am writing you this to say that in my opinion under no conditions should you or the Board of Directors of the Ethyl gasoline Corporation disclose any secrets or "know how" in connection with the manufacture of tetraethyl lead to Germany.16
In response to these concerns Ethyl lied to the government. On January 12, 1935, Earl W. |
| EPA, the Court looked at experimental evidence on the hazards of lead poisoning and reached a firm decision: if you want to prevent children's brains from being damaged by microscopic amounts of lead, then get lead out of gasoline.47 With Daubert, judges were granted dominion to insist that the only clear evidence of human harm came from publications that analyzed statistically significant instances of human deformities or death. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Remember, poison ivy and gasoline are both "natural," which doesn't mean I want to eat them.) In the section on meat and poultry, I address the whole issue of "grass fed" and "free range," since this is the category in which these terms apply. But "organic" now is a label used on everything from fruits and vegetables to Captain Hickory's Chocolate Crunchy Cereal. What does it mean, anyway? Should we pay attention? And if so, why? |
Devra Davis
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| During and before World War II, Kehoe served as Medical Director of the Ethyl Corporation; the firm provided the formula for leaded gasoline to the Germans, in violation of War Department orders.
The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
War crimes, the saying goes, are what the losers get charged with. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you think that water magically appears out of your faucets, or food magically appears in the grocery store, or that gasoline just flows out of gas station pumps sort of like water out of a spring in the ground, then this book is going to give you quite a shock. It's going to show you a different side of society, where the interdependence that we take for granted might not remain viable. |
Mark Lynas
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 Already corn-derived ethanol is being blended into gasoline in the United States, ostensibly to reduce C02 emissions, but in reality having more to do with subsidising the politically powerful farming lobby in 'red' Republican states. It is also far from clear whether any carbon is actually displaced, given that the production, milling and transportation of corn uses large amounts of fossil fuel in trucks, tractors and factories. Some green enthusiasts already run their cars on used chip fat, and are strong advocates of biofuels. But again the scale issue is crucial. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a zero-emissions vehicle with no tailpipe or evaporative emissions, no emissions from gasoline refining or sales, and no onboard emission-control systems. Like other electric cars under development, this model can accelerate with great speed, from 0-60 mph in 10 seconds. However, performance electric cars from other companies like Tesla Motors can go from 0-60 mph in a whiplash-inducing 4 seconds.
According to the website for Phoenix Motorcars, the company "manufactures zero-emission, freeway-speed fleet vehicles. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Indeed, the ongoing liaison between antiknock additives and gasoline has proven to be an especially dangerous partnership.
The prime concern in the case of fuel additives is an emerging toxin that causes neither cancel nor damage to any of the body's intetnal organs, such as the heart, lungs, or liver. The vulnerable target in this case is the brain. The impairments that result can touch many of the central nervous system's key functions of physical control and can compromise consciousness itself. The syndrome in question is Parkinson's disease. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 By the way, the company claims that the jojoba oil helps unclog pores, a notion that is completely false (like thinking gasoline will extinguish a fire). Jojoba oil is excellent for dry skin, but its molecular makeup is similar to our own oil (sebum), and that oil, while helpful for dry skin, is a causative, not combative, factor where blemishes are concerned.
© Clear Complexion Seboregulator ($55for3.3 ounces) is supposed to inhibit the inflammatory process that leads to acne while controlling "the synthesis of comedoes-inducing skin lipids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rather, I think the future of human civilization will involve mass starvation, mass sickness, a failed health care system and dwindling natural resources like fresh water and hydrocarbon fuels (oil and gasoline). If we don't make changes right now in the way we treat our seeds, foods, children and environment, then we are all inconvenient passengers on a ship that has set course for a future far more bleak than the one portrayed in I Am Legend. |
Michael Pollan
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 American gas stations now make more money selling food (and cigarettes) than gasoline, but consider what kind of food this is: except perhaps for the milk and water, it's all highly processed nonperishable snack foods and extravagantly sweetened soft drinks in hefty twenty-ounce bottles. Gas stations have become processed-corn stations: ethanol outside for your car and high-fructose corn syrup inside for you.
« TRY NOT TO EAT ALONE. Americans are increasingly eating in solitude. |
| Not just animal protein, but sugar and gasoline were also strictly rationed during the war. Americans generally ate less of everything, including, notably, refined carbohydrates; they did, however, eat more fish. And got more exercise because they couldn't drive as freely thanks to gas rationing.
But the lipid hypothesis would not be deterred. Researchers in the 1950s and 1960s had studied populations in other countries that had substantially lower rates of heart disease, which could be explained by their lower consumption of saturated fat. |
Jack Challem
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 A calorie is a unit of energy, and your body burns calories for fuel much the way a car burns gasoline.
Many dieters, however, know that the calorie-is-a-calorie idea just isn't true. Their personal experiences tell them that they can gain several pounds of weight after eating a small quantity of, let's say, chocolate or pizza. But the average dieter doesn't have the scientific background to argue with the calorie-is-a-calorie experts.
The calorie-is-a-calorie approach is based, scientifically, on the first law of thermodynamics, which is an underpinning of chemistry and physics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If oil were priced like most prescription drugs, gasoline would cost you over $28,000 per gallon. But somehow, we're all told the drug companies need this money to "invest in more cures" which, of course, will be sold to us at even higher monopolistic prices.
To end this profiteering, disease-mongering madness, all you have to do is end patent protection for genes, seeds and medicines. By what madness were there ever patents issued on these things anyway? Why should medicine be owned by corporations and not the people? |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| For every pound of beef you eat, factory farmers must use 2,500 gallons of water and a gallon of gasoline to run machinery, and 35 pounds of topsoil is lost due to erosion.21 As long as we continue to eat meat, we contribute to the loss of our environment.
• Over 1 million animals are slaughtered for human consumption every hour.22
• A large portion of U.S. commercial milk cows receive a protein hormone such as bovine growth hormone (rBGH) to increase their milk supply, which has been artificially increased by a factor of 25 in some instances! |
| In many ways, UC is like a fire that constantly pours gasoline on itself.
What are the symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis?
Abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea are the most commonly experienced symptoms of UC. Sufferers of this condition have also reported fatigue, weight loss, and a change in appetite, skin lesions, and fever. Seemingly unrelated afflictions such as osteoporosis, arthritis, liver disease, and eye inflammation have been reported, but medical doctors still aren't sure exactly why. Drugs are usually prescribed to help control the symptoms of Colitis for as long as possible. |
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