Quotes About Diet

I want to know what my food has been eating.

I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.

No one eats pretty.

Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.

I wish I knew in terms of more educated in food when I was younger. Because the importance of it not just in sport but in life too has helped me and I think it'll continue.

I thought I was healthy... well, my eggs were a little powdered.

I don't eat eggs.

If you cut the fat out of your diet you feel more energetic, for sure.

You need to take care of yourself, have a good diet, rest sufficiently and have a lot of enthusiasm.

I put on weight easily and lose it equally fast.

What you eat is important and what is eating you is equally important.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.

And that is the same problem that researchers would run into if they tried to test the cognitive effects of a diet full of junk food, say, or fast food: it's very, very difficult to get people to agree to change their diet at the request of a scientist and then to follow that diet for weeks or months, let alone years.

Most cats do not like regular milk. They cannot digest it.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."—MICHAEL POLLAN

And eggs are the most bioavailable source of protein per calorie known to man.)

If you ever feel bloated after a meal, it's a sign that your body is reacting to the foods you ate. It's not necessarily a "food allergy," but it may be that your body is reacting to the foods in a way that can cause inflammation and, eventually, weight gain. Try eliminating wheat from your diet entirely for two weeks and see if you feel better. Then do the same with dairy. You'll be amazed how effective this is—

It's all about eating real food! Sweet potatoes come from the ground, maple syrup comes out of a tree, carrots grow in the dirt, bees make honey, and hopefully we can all find more and more pasture-raised, grain-free, cruelty-free animals for protein. Because what our animals eat becomes what we eat, too. I don't see ever getting too far from these principles. Real food is medicine, and I like to put the highest-quality food into the only body I will ever have.

a 2011 study found that gluten causes gastrointestinal symptoms in people even if they don't have celiac disease.