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Quotes About Diet

I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already.
~ Tommy Cooper
Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you
~ Tommy Smothers
I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.
~ Tori Spelling
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.
~ Totie Fields
I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
~ Travis Barker
Rice provides a full one-fifth of calories consumed worldwide, more than wheat or corn, and is the essential staple in the daily diet of 3 billion people, many of them poor and food insecure.
~ Paul Hawken
As Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has said, making the transition to a plant-based diet may well be the most effective way an individual can stop climate change. Recent research suggests he is right: Few climate solutions of this magnitude lie in the hands of individuals or are as close as the dinner plate.
~ Paul Hawken
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
~ Grace Slick
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
~ Tom Jaine
And everything was back to normal when he cooked dinner that night. Salima had requested homemade pizza, and the ones he made were delicious, with a huge salad. He had baked apple crumble for dessert, made with sugar substitutes for Salima's diet. He served it with homemade dietetic vanilla ice cream. He was a genius at making the foods she could eat and making them taste great. And as they chatted and joked after dinner
~ Danielle Steel
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
~ Dave Barry
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.
~ Dave Barry
The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in calories, which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that mankind would have a way to get onion dip into his mouth at parties, has none.
~ Dave Barry
Well, I may not have a framed Latin diploma, but I know crazy talk when I hear it. Alcohol has been an important part of the human diet for thousands of years. The Bible is filled with references to people drinking alcohol, such as this quotation from the Book of Effusions, Chapter Eight, Verse Six, Row 7:
~ Dave Barry
Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.
~ David Deida
I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.
~ Winston Graham
Desde el punto de vista epistemológico, hacer dieta es discutible. Si todo lo que existe está sólo en mi cabeza, no sólo puedo pedir cualquier cosa en un restaurante, sino que también puedo exigir que el servicio sea impecable. El hombre es el único ser capaz de no dejar propina al camarero.
~ Woody Allen
In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone.
~ Christopher McDougall
Even your breakfast burrito plays a role; Lieberman's investigations had revealed that as our diet shifted over the centuries from chewy stuff like raw roots and wild game and gave way to mushy cooked staples like spaghetti and ground beef, our faces began to shrink. Ben Franklin's face was chunkier than yours; Caesar's was bigger than his.
~ Christopher McDougall
Everyone knew that at some point in history, early humans got access to a big supply of protein, which allowed their brains to expand like a thirsty sponge in a bucket of water. Our brains kept growing until they were seven times larger than the brains of any comparable mammal. They also sucked up an ungodly number of calories; even though our brains account for only 2 percent of our body weight, they demand 20 percent of our energy, compared with just 9 percent for chimps.
~ Christopher McDougall
You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.
~ Christopher McDougall
Skillful marketing has made carbohydrate consumption a religion among athletes," he'd fume. "They believe that you cannot get energy from anywhere but carbs." The same foods Noakes had assured people would make them stronger and faster were a slow-acting poison making them fatter, weaker, and more prone to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and dementia.
~ Christopher McDougall
need two hundred calories an hour. The trick is learning how to take in a little at a time, so you've got a steady drip of fuel without overwhelming your stomach. This'll be good practice.
~ Christopher McDougall
The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.
~ Christopher McDougall