Quotes About Nutrition

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

Focusing on food and exercise changed my life.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

I tend to stay healthy because Ive been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when youre healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes. It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.

I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.

pure air, sunshine, properly prepared food, nonpoisonous herbs, water treatments, pure water to drink, abstemiousness (moderation), foods not robbed of their life-giving properties during manufacture, and cleanliness of body and premises.

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices.

If it didn't come from the ground or the ocean or have a mother—don't eat it. Think about it. Twinkies and Cheetos—what the hell are these? There's no Twinkie tree, and I'm pretty positive that nothing ever gave birth to a Cheeto.

I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don't exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren't giving yourself a fighting chance.

Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.

In an effort to increase sales, food manufacturers engineer processed foods that are sweet, salty, and fatty, all flavors the body naturally craves.

Cancer cells cannot survive in an oxygenated alkaline system. Furthermore

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

DAY 6: Pineapple Spinach 2 cups fresh spinach, packed 1 cup pineapple chunks 2 cups frozen peaches 2 bananas, peeled 1½ packets stevia 2 cups water 2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds

Most native plants are also higher in protein and fiber and much lower in sugar than the ones we've devised. The ancestor of our modern corn is a grass plant called teosinte that is native to central Mexico. Its kernels are about 30 percent protein and 2 percent sugar. Old-fashioned sweet corn is 4 percent protein and 10 percent sugar. Some of the newest varieties of supersweet corn are as high as 40 percent sugar.

Now it is known that we cannot absorb some of the most important nutrients in salad greens unless the dressing or the meal it's eaten with contains some type of fat. Olive oil, according to a 2012 Purdue University study, does the best job of making those compounds more bioavailable. It takes almost seven times more soybean oil, by contrast, to get the same results. Soybean oil is the most common oil in commercial salad dressings.