Quotes About Diet

Renzo was the same kind of vegetarian as me, which meant he set out each morning to eat only raw foods and, as the day progressed, grew more and more corrupt—never degenerating into anything truly fatal like French fries or actual meat, but still . . .

The moment you banish a food, it paradoxically builds up a "craving life" of its own that gets stronger with each diet, and builds more momentum as the deprivation deepens.

Every diet violation, every eating situation that feels out of control lays the foundation for the "diet mentality," brick by brick and diet by diet.

When underfed—whether from a self-imposed diet or starvation—you will obsess about food.

honor your hunger, respect your fullness, cope with feelings with kindness, reject the diet mentality).

Quality fats—fat is also a nutrient, required by the body. Notably, when the essentiality of fats was first discovered, they were called "vitamin F" (Evans et al. 1928). Too bad this nomenclature didn't stick—if it had, it would help remind people that we do need some fat in our diet.

We have become a nation riddled with guilt based on how we eat.

Eat more beans to produce more gas.

we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth...

Or, worse, excess fat.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals.

A couple of days of this powdered cuisine and my uncle actually lost a few pounds. Things were going well until he decided that adding a couple of scoops of Baskin-Robbins improved the flavor substantially. Following

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

He may leave a prescription of herbs and drugs, and recommend diet—perhaps chicken broth, the milk of pulverized almonds, or barley water mixed with figs, honey, and licorice.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

within half an hour of training. Fruits