Quotes About Diet

The people who are scared of going on a diet are the people who could benefit the most from one.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Violence begins with the fork.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

The way you eat defines how you look to yourself, but the way you speak defines how you look to others.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

That body of his, which had been fed more on stimulants than on food...

Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

It was partly for this reason that Musonius advocated a simple diet. More precisely, he thought it best to eat foods that needed little preparation, including fruits, green vegetables, milk, and cheese. He tried to avoid meat since it was, he thought, a food more appropriate for wild animals.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an r in their name to eat an oyster.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

The obvious thing is to think about what we could remove from our diet. But I took a completely opposite approach and began asking: What could we be adding to our diet that could boost the body's defense system? In other words, can we eat to starve cancer?

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

We may never know, with any certainty, what will produce the longest and healthiest life. But there are a few things we can all agree on… maybe. Processed foods are the single biggest offender in terms of burglarizing our health. And as such, they should be put on the list of known predators and violent offenders.