Bruce Ames Quotes

• Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Coffee, Science

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• Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation.

  Bruce Ames

  Doe, Radiation, Acid

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• For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and
  only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries,
  or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage
  that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the
  diseases of aging.

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Long, Example

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• The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define
  worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating
  empty calories.

  Bruce Ames

  Country, Essentials, Ratios

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• If I don't eat veggies with a meal, I feel deprived.

  Bruce Ames

  Meals, Feels, Ifs

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• I think we all should try and eat a good diet. It's actually a
  wonderful to eat a good diet, because you're eating all of these different
  kinds of foods... and they all taste good, and when you get used to it, you
  feel better!

  Bruce Ames

  Feel Better, Thinking, Trying

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• What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do
  those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no
  one's been really doing them.

  Bruce Ames

  Doe, Want, Kind

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• The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Believe, Science

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