Quotes About Nutrition

Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.

I think the most important thing is in life, it's all about balance. It's balance between foods you like and nutrition.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

In 2012 a landmark German study found that vegetarians are considerably more likely to have mental disorders than people who eat meat.

vegetarianism perpetuates (or even exacerbates) mental disorders.

Believe it or not, countless generations of children finished their supper before the advent of Kraft Mac & Cheese and ice-cream sandwiches.

running an entire marathon burns only about 2,600 calories, the equivalent of a day's worth of food. Even worse, body fat is a remarkably good way to store energy: a pound of body fat contains roughly 4,000 calories. That means losing a mere ten pounds is the caloric equivalent of running 13.5 marathons.

the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise animals the right way, and pay for ethically raised meat. That role falls to us.

Shifting to a low-sugar, lower carbohydrate diet is particularly important for people looking to lose weight or repair their metabolism, and it seems prudent for everyone.

Liver is one of the most famously healthy foods in the world: according to a Chinese proverb, "Eat liver, fortify your own liver";

Grass-fed butter is a rich source of vitamin A, a healthy fat called CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), and vitamin K2. Many grocery stores now carry Kerrygold, an authentic Irish grass-fed butter.

Excessive consumption of fructose contributes to the development of fatty liver disease, kidney stones, and gout.

In theory, vegetarianism is a lifestyle that anyone might adopt. In practice, vegetarianism is popular among a very specific slice of the general population in the Western world: young urban women. Studies of vegetarians generally find that 65 to 75% of vegetarians are female—in other words, two to three times as many women as men.

It's also probably not a good idea to cook meat at extremely high heat, as charred meat has many toxins.

as scientifically sound health advice, "Everything in moderation" is as nourishing as white bread. The very people who need to eat more moderately are also the ones who seem to have the most difficulty actually doing so.

Listening to vegetarians talk about the benefits of a plant-based diet, it can be hard to separate health claims from ideological, ethical, or environmental claims. At various times it has been claimed that vegetarianism can end world hunger; end food cravings; reverse global warming; reverse heart disease; reduce violent crime; reduce cholesterol; improve the sex drive; reduce the sex drive; end sexism; cure cancer, and usher in the Age of Aquarius. Apparently soybeans grow best in bullshit.

This does not mean that eating potassium chloride in place of sodium chloride, in a low-salt formulation, is risky—it isn't. We need much more potassium chloride in our diet than sodium chloride, but normally we get all we need in the food we eat.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill; others, that it is a fermenting vat; others, again that it is a stew-pan; but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan, but a stomach gentlemen, a stomach.