Quotes About Diet

whereas a high-carbohydrate diet increases the concentration of unhealthy small LDL particles, as observed by P.W. Siri-Tarino, F.B. Hu, Q. Sun and R.M. Krauss in their paper 'Saturated fat, carbohydrate and cardiovascular disease'.

cancer was essentially unheard of in populations eating their traditional diets. Even the mid-Victorian English did not suffer greatly from cancer (Figure 16.7 on page 324). That is why cancer is considered to be a disease of 'civilization'.

you can't out-exercise a bad diet.

Dental remains show that farmers suffered from tooth decay, unheard of in hunter-gatherers, because the carbohydrates in the farmers' cereal-heavy diets were reduced to sugars by enzymes in their saliva as they chewed.

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.

Elle complimented me on my weight loss and asked me which diet I was on. Acid stomach, I wanted to say. You should try it. I can introduce your husband to Emmanuelle if you want.

Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.

No. You just had breakfast, you piggy," Lexie said, bending to pat the tan fluffy dog on the head. "You're on a diet." Her sister tended to overfeed him

If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.

Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!

Not only does a developing brain need plenty of calories; a lot of those calories should come from fats, particularly the polyunsaturated omaga-3 fatty acid docosahexanoic acid, better known as DHA. Fats

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that are more elusive to pinpoint as they are so deeply embedded within our culture. My

Vegetarians, despite the variety of ways in which to argue their perspective, always appear to be saying "Don't eat meat." Meat eaters cannot make sense of this because a part of their definition of what makes sense is eating meat.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it.

Go get us some burgers and coffee. I'll get on the horn to Mark Hopewell. I'll ask him for a list." "Cheese or plain?" "I'm on a diet." "Plain then. And no fries?" "I said I'm on a diet, not a death march.

Man does not live by bread alone, but he might be healthier if he did.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.