Quotes About Diet

To benefit your metabolism, your appetite, and your waistline, snacks need to have protein and fiber.

I try to have five meals per day, with a few healthy snacks in between.

Whatever your meals are, they must fill you up, do not skip breakfast or lunch because you're going to get hungry and then you're going to be reaching for snacks that are sugary, salty, fatty, that won't fill you up, and then you'll be reaching for them again.

I don't eat huge amounts, I'm just very lazy. But then this story appeared about me being on a diet and several weeks later I was snapped on holiday with my ''new physique'' on display, which was basically my old physique under a baggy T-shirt. I hadn't been on any diet. But I felt I had to live up to it.

Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.

I actually avoid talking about my diet and exercise regime because I have interviewed so many people affected by eating disorders and I know that some people in chat rooms can really fixate on other people's diets. I just can't contribute to that.

For me, my nutrition routine is a way of life, and I have so much energy when I exercise and eat a healthy balanced diet.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food.

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.

The problem starts with the nutrient. Most nutritional science involves studying one nutrient at a time, a seemingly unavoidable approach that even nutritionists who do it will tell you is deeply flawed. "The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science," points out Marion Nestle, a New York University nutritionist, "is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.

What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs.

YOU ARE WHAT WHAT YOU EAT EATS TOO.

AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING INGREDIENTS THAT ARE A) UNFAMILIAR, B) UNPRONOUNCEABLE, C) MORE THAN FIVE IN NUMBER, OR THAT INCLUDE D) HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP.

AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS.

EAT MOSTLY PLANTS, ESPECIALLY LEAVES.

People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.

REGARD NONTRADITIONAL FOODS WITH SKEPTICISM

DON'T LOOK FOR THE MAGIC BULLET IN THE TRADITIONAL DIET.

DON'T GET YOUR FUEL FROM THE SAME PLACE YOUR CAR DOES.

Foods that lie to our senses are one of the most challenging features of the Western diet.

Indeed, the surest way to escape the Western diet is simply to depart the realms it rules: the supermarket, the convenience store, and the fast-food outlet.

The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead." This

For us, the first big change came ten thousand years ago with the advent of agriculture. (And it devastated our health, leading to a panoply of deficiencies and infectious diseases that we've only managed to get under control in the last century or so.) The biggest change in our food environment since then? The advent of the modern diet.