Quotes About Nutrition

I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I am really trying not to eat cheese at night. It's become a real problem and I have now got high cholesterol. I have to do something about it.

I have realised the importance of being fit and healthy.

I realised as I was getting older, I was eating healthier and healthier, and I realised I didn't really need to eat meat.

I have realised the importance of finding the right nutrition for our pets.

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

There are days when I will be like, 'Oh my goodness, I am not happy with the way I look because I cannot fit into any of my clothes.' So I eat quinoa that week, and then I feel good.

I don't have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.

I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic.

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

Mum was ahead of the curve with healthy lunchboxes with grapes in sandwiches. There was always an apricot, raisins and pieces of apple.

You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.

Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

Me personally, I took out bread and I took out grease foods.

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

You need to have a great way of life - you have to eat well, to sleep well.

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

I love berries, greens, and salmon.