Quotes About Diet

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.

Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.

When I was fifteen and trying to show my independence by getting careless with my diet, my parents took me to a Duryea-Gode disease ward. They wanted me to see, they said, where I was headed if I wasn't careful. In fact, it was where I was headed no matter what. It was only a matter of when: now or later. My parents were putting in their vote for later.

food is eaten for health, not to taste

dig your grave with your knife and fork.

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

About 60 percent of the calories in ground beef come from fat. This is a huge load of calories that do nothing good for the body and do a lot of harm, from promoting heart disease to increasing cancer risk, and, of course, fattening you up.

Exercise is beneficial, and I strongly recommend it. But a lack of exercise is not the primary reason for weight problems, and exercise can never take the place of a healthful diet.

So, if people in Asia or Africa who eat lots of carbohydrates have very little diabetes, and if the disease becomes more and more common as carbohydrates are excluded from the diet, researchers have had to conclude that a high-carbohydrate diet is not the cause of the disease. In fact, the culprit seems to be lurking in our Western diets.

We do need some fat in the diet. But we need only a fraction of what most of us typically get. A small amount of fat is inherent in grains, legumes, and vegetables. This is all the body needs.

When you follow a vegan diet, there is much less need for surgeons to clean out your arteries or intestinal tract!

GOING VEGAN IS EASY. IT'S EASIER THAN GOING LOW-CARB or gluten-free. And it's much easier than quitting smoking or breaking other habits. Because you can eat as much as you want.

The first "rule" guides you to replace animal products with the four healthful food groups that are nutrition powerhouses: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes.

The road to diabetes is in fact a two-way street.

Algunos alimentos engordan. Otros son adictivos. El queso es ambas cosas: engorda y es adictivo. Y ese es el problema.

While many of us grew up being taught to make sure we got enough protein, the fact is we have gotten too much.

For millions of years, humans and other primates have plucked fruits from trees and roots from the ground and have taken advantage of carbohydrate's capacity to nourish us. What is remarkable is that these foods provide energy with relatively little tendency to cause overweight. In many Asian countries, for example, where rice is still the center of the diet and huge amounts of rice are consumed, people tend to remain slim.

Now, I know that people with diabetes have heard over and over that they must limit rice, pasta, and other starchy foods. But keep in mind that diabetes—and overweight—has been rare in countries that have made these foods their staples. The plan does have rules about carbohydrates, but they relate mainly to which ones you choose, not how much. In our studies, we have found that people who include plenty of healthy carbohydrates in their diets do better, not worse.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.