What the Heck Should I Cook, Dr. Hyman?

If they just got off the crap and started eating real food and literally unplugged from the industrial food system, their health would dramatically improve, we would reverse climate change, we would end social injustice [and] poverty, we'd have money—enough for free education and free healthcare for everybody... just by cooking at home.

Our food system creates chronic disease and kills 11 million people a year from bad food. That's a lot of people—more than any other thing in the world, including smoking. It bankrupts our nations. $95 trillion—that's what it's going to cost our nation, just in America, over the next 35 years to deal with chronic disease.

The smartest doctor in the room is your own body. It will tell you every time what works and what doesn't work.

I think one of the saddest things is that we've lost the family dinner. If we do eat a family dinner, it's usually less than 20 minutes—each person eating a different factory-made science project, made in the microwave from a different factory, all while watching TV or on their phone.

If you were to eat a pound of beef per day, you'd kill 0.7 cows per year. If you were to eat a quarter pound of beef per day, you'd kill 1 cow every 5 years.

When you think of the amount of glyphosate... If it was an ingredient on a Cheerios box, it would be higher in terms of its quantity that all the vitamins in there.

I think gluten and dairy are problematic because of how they're raised and grown. We're not eating the grains that our ancestors ate; we're not eating the dairy that our ancestors ate. It's very inflammatory and creates a lot of gut issues as well as health and disease problems.

Americans spend more time watching cooking on television than actually cooking at home.

Guess what happens if you eat more than 20% of your calories from protein... [A] 400% increase in all-cause mortality ... It creates inflammatory things throughout the body because your amino acids get screwed up—you get too much cysteine & methionine. That's one of the anti-aging things.

I always say 'eat weird food' ... When we eat these modern industrial fruits and vegetables, we're not necessarily getting very nutrient dense foods. So, if it's like a watermelon radish or some funky green or dandelion greens or some weird fruit or some funky thing, I think those are great things to include in your diet because they're far more nutrient-dense and have more phytochemicals.

Fish is probably one of the healthiest foods on the planet, except in 2019 where it's probably one of the worst foods on the planet.

70% of military applicants are rejected because they're too fat or sick to fight.