Quotes About Diet

Green vegetables are the highest in overall nutrient density, meaning that they contain the most micronutrients per calorie, and of course they are the foods richest in alpha-carotene.

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

If you put shampoo into a car engine, you're not going to scratch your head when the thing conks out,' [Dale Pinnock] said. Yet every day, all over the Western world, we are putting into our bodies substances 'which are so far removed from what was intended for human fuel.

Trying to lose weight in the environment we've built is like trying to run up an escalator that is constantly carrying you down. A few people might heroically sprint to the top - but most of us will find ourselves back at the bottom, feeling like its our fault.

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I am hoping that real aliens are vegetarian only.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely an illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.

If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.

I am a nutritional overachiever.

Vegetarians taste better.