Quotes About Diet

The gap in quality between the diet of the poorest and that of the richest is wide and widening. The poorest families in America may not look hungry in the way that Victorian orphans looked hungry, but they eat fewer dark green vegetables, fewer whole grains, and fewer nuts.

Soldiers, like footballers, are famously resistant to new foods.

In the US from 1980 to 2011, it became more than twice as expensive for Americans for purchase fresh fruit and vegetables compared to purchasing sugary carbonated beverages. Tomatoes and broccoli are far more expensive on average than they used to be for American shoppers. Energy-dense foods such as cakes and burgers have become far cheaper now in comparison to fruits and vegetables.

We are all born with echoes of our mother's diet, which means that no one is a totally blank slate when it comes to flavour.

It is curious that we talk so little about the flavour of formula, given that it is the main food many babies taste for that crucial first year.

What is so damaging about our gendered approach to food is that it encourages both boys and girls to feed themselves in ways that go against what their bodies require. We have got things the wrong way round. It is girls more than boys who need the most haemoglobin-boosting foods. And boys more than girls are lacking in salad and vegetables. Girl food and boy food are dangerous nonsense that prevents us from seeing the real problems of feeding boys and girls.

Contrary to the impression given by the health pages of newspapers, the greatest single nutritional shortfall in our diets right now is not our failure to eat enough 'superfoods', whatever those might be. It is the iron deficiency of girls.

When our preferences are in order, nutrition should take care of itself.

What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.

If food is a fuel, we should feel that the tank is emptiest when the longest time has elapsed since it was filled - usually in the morning.

Dietary change comes not from forcing someone to eat what they do not like, but in helping them to discover their own passions.

One of the commonest ways our eating goes wrong is that we consistently choose foods that offer immediate satiation in the belly rather than longer lasting satiety.

It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.

While the form of 'kid food' is more varied than ever, however, the content is far less so. Foods marketed specifically at children tend to be higher than average in salt, sugar and fat.

Large numbers of adults as well as children have now become habituated to eating a version of 'kid food' over a whole lifetime: sweet, salty, undemanding to chew and swallow and heavily processed.

It is genuinely possible to reach the point where you desire broccoli more than fries and wholemeal sourdough more than sliced white bread.

Throughout Brazil there are 'dual burden households' where some family members (usually the children) are underweight and stunted and others (usually the mothers) are obese.51 Many adolescent girls in Brazil are both anaemic and obese, suggesting that their diets, though plentiful, are low in crucial micronutrients, especially iron.52

The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

The cereals marketed for children are consistently the most sugary and highly processed in the whole cereal aisle.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.