Quotes About Diet

If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.

I don't eat food, I eat fat.

How is it that food STILL contains calories that make you gain weight in the 21st CENTURY?! It's like scientists aren't even trying!

The effect is so powerful that what you eat during the last stages of pregnancy can influence the food preferences of your baby.

He believed that vigorous exercise was good for his health, trusting more in that (and a moderate diet) than in the ministrations of his doctors, except on the rare occasions when he was seriously ill.

When diet and lifestyle—often the underlying causes of poor health—are adjusted, the body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, much more quickly than we had once thought possible.

Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.

When you decide to go on a diet, it's never because you feel great and want to reward yourself by reducing your food intake and exercising more.

David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!

It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. If the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress, and inability to put forth mental effort.

We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.

Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists.

Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!

Encourage your loved one to eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, maintain a reasonable weight, stop smoking, and consume alcohol in moderation. If you can't get your fire fighter to cooperate, model a healthy lifestyle yourself. A new study of 4,700 couples showed that there is a strong association between the health of husbands and the health of wives. Married people tend to follow the same kinds of diets, for better or worse, or to smoke if their spouse does.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Ultimately, no yoga teacher can tell you what you need--not in a pose, not in a diet, not in a lifestyle. They can give you the principles, but it is up to you to use your intuition to find what is right for you. You have to practice your own naturalness, and that is what Baptiste Power Yoga is all about.

That's why the recent popularity of juicing (the removal of fiber from fruits to make easy-to-drink juices) has been a disaster. Juicing simply removes a primary control rod (i.e., fiber) from the carbohydrate, meaning that the carbohydrate enters the bloodstream too fast.

To be genetically correct, man needs a modern version of a Neo-Paleolithic diet, a diet that's based on his current genetic makeup. That's exactly what a Zone-favorable diet is: a diet that is synergistic with mankind's genetic structure, which has changed very little in the last 100,000 years.

Maintain a beneficial ratio of protein to carbohydrate every time you eat. This one simple rule is the foundation for constructing a Zone-favorable diet. And what is that beneficial ratio of protein to carbohydrate? The ideal is about 0.75—that's three grams of protein to every four grams of carbohydrate. That's the ideal. But there's a range of beneficial protein-to-carbohydrate ratios that are still Zone-favorable—between about 0.6 and 1.0 (see

Surprisingly, the second group of individuals who tend to be protein malnourished are elite athletes—especially women. Their protein demands are often exceedingly high because of their greater amounts of lean body mass and higher levels of physical activity. These hard-working athletes tend to consume more than enough calories, but they rarely eat adequate levels of protein.