Quotes About Diet

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are perserving your fat cells with diet soda

Whenever you see the words "fat free" or "low-fat," think of the words "chemical shit storm.

Milk = fat. Butter = fat. Cheese = fat. People who think these products can be low fat or fat free = fucking morons.

You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.

People in other cultures consume half the amount of protein that we do, yet they live longer, healthier lives.

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were—that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made—on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

of those in food to have optimal health. Most enzymes are destroyed in foods that are processed, refined, or cooked at temperatures above 118 degrees. Raw or lightly steamed foods, on the other hand, are rich in enzymes.

The United States is a nation addicted to sugar. In 1890, the average American ate 10 pounds of sugar a year. Today, that figure is between 170 and 200 pounds. Unfortunately, in our society sugar is not just something that tastes good. It has also become an emotional pacifier. Refined sugar may satisfy your psychological needs for a moment, but ultimately it will destroy your body.

what is a healthy diet? It's one that consists of 60 percent organic vegetables; 20 percent meat and fish that are antibiotic- and hormone-free (meat from grass-fed animals); 15 percent gluten-free whole grains; and 5 percent organic fruits, nuts, seeds, beans/legumes (once or twice a week), and unrefined oils.

Clearly this wasn't the kind of household where they ate steak every night. And so Tibby chewed the meat with as much vigor as was possible for a girl who had been a vegetarian since she was nine.

Want to increase your CLA to rev up metabolic rate? 1. Eat CLA-rich grass-fed beef and pastured butter and cream. Also be on the lookout for grass-fed, non-denatured whey. 2. Consider CLA supplements from conjugated safflower or sunflower oil. I recommend 3,000 mg daily. But, just be careful. With many of my clients, you lose weight so quickly you will go down a pants size or two in no time!

Tofu and sprouts just taste better to me than potato chips and cupcakes.

Diabetes is a disease which affects your blood sugar level. I have to give myself injections of something called insulin twice a day and stick to a strict diet, which means NO SUGAR, NO SWEETS. If I don't, I could get really sick.

The healthy man is the thin man. But you don't need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that's all.

Cacao has great nutritional value, a lot of protein, which strengthens a person, and without sugar it is not fattening.

APERITIVE  (APE'RITIVE)   adj.[from aperio, Lat. to open.]That which has the quality of opening the excrementious passages of the body.

Saltines and sardines. Staples of his diet. Add a chunk of rat cheese and a Kosher dill spear and you had yourself the four basic food groups. There simply wasn't any finer fare.

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

people, who "dig their grave with their teeth.

Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise.

If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower.

one of the primary factors in determining your energy level, and therefore your mood, is what you've eaten recently.*

Por ejemplo, si un estudio indica que no comer otra cosa que tarta de chocolate es una manera estupenda de perder peso, pero tiene un amigo que prueba esa dieta y no hace más que engordar, tiene dos dimensiones que no encajan. (Y si cuenta el sentido común, tres.) Eso es una falta de coherencia.