Quotes About Diet

Obesity, according to common wisdom, points to a high-fat diet. But fat consumption, whether saturated or unsaturated, causes no release of insulin. There's no possibility of storing fat in fat cells unless insulin opens the receptors, and only eating sugar can make that happen. That's why Type I diabetics who have no insulin die emaciated. Obesity is simply a different symptom of the same syndrome that causes everything else that plagues modern man.

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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Everyone eats all kinds of food in Kerala. Kerala is one of the states where life span is the highest; and lifespan is closely linked to food habits. In Kerala, people are generally non-vegetarians. If it was bad for health, life expectancy would not have been so good.

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

The only specialized diet that I follow is home-cooked food.

I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

I try not to push veganism specifically. If I'm asked for my advice, I say just eat healthy.

Something so simple as breakfast and eating the right things and making sure you eat breakfast was key to us, and it helped me specifically when I got to college to gain weight and get on the right nutritional plan.

We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

I've spent my whole life feeling I should watch what I eat but actually don't.

I can't deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price - I'm on medication for heartburn, so that's how I deal with it.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

Protein helps your insulin levels not spike and helps you not store your food as fat.

I love spinach - I eat it like a crazy woman.

I love greens, like spinach, avocado, broccoli.

I'm big on green veggies: arugula, spinach, and kale.