Quotes About Diet

A key difference between plant-based nutrition and more traditional approaches to weight loss is that people are encouraged to eat ad libitum, which is, as I've noted, Latin for at one's pleasure. In other words, people on a healthy enough plant-based diet can eat as much as they want.

Millions of years before we learned how to sharpen spears, mill grains, or boil sugarcane, our entire physiology is presumed to have evolved in the context of eating what the rest of our great ape cousins eat—leaves, stems, and shoots (in other words, vegetables), fruits, seeds, and nuts.

The four largest calorie contributors in the American diet are (1) refined grains, (2) added fats, (3) meat, and (4) added sugars.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — THOMAS EDISON

red meat that has been processed into bacon, bologna, hot dogs, sandwich meats, and other products with added salt is best avoided altogether.

the biggest deliverers of saturated fat—the type of fat doctors worry about—are cheese and red meat

As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.

Noting that people were getting on average 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day, the association urged Americans to cut back. Moderately active women should get no more than 5 teaspoons of sugar—

On average, we consume 71 pounds of caloric sweeteners each year. That's 22 teaspoons of sugar, per person, per day.

proponent of the view that the processed food industry should be seen as a public health menace: "As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.

If you mapped categories of food advertising, especially advertising to kids, against the Food Guide Pyramid, it would turn the pyramid on its head," he

This is not some big corporate plot to fatten up kids. This is what kids want. There are very few kids out there who will eat rice cakes and tofu.

cheese and pizza contributed more than 14 percent of the saturated fat being consumed.

Purina. If you give her table scraps you're going to have a

Parents just don't realize what they are doing to their children when they provide a diet that makes their children overweight. The harm is permanent.

High-quality food is better for your health.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

You are what what you eat eats.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

Haven't you heard – fat isn't the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.

Humans were never meant to be vegetarian," Hel bubbled, her face and fangs black with fluids.