Quotes About Nutrition

I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I'm not someone who obsesses about what they eat, but I do try to eat consciously and towards it being something that is super enjoyable. I love good food.

I hate diets and I love eating.

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

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

I love Kashi. I eat cereal like a little kid. I carry it in my purse.

I would love to make @BarackObama vegan.

I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

Since plants pull minerals from the soils—micronutrients essential for human health—they serve as a conduit, taking the soil—the environment—putting it into a digestible form, and passing it on to us. Each time we take a bite of food, part of the environment literally becomes part of our biological fabric, our bodies. At the risk of sounding like a hippy, the Earth is part of us.

Stressed people do not burn body fat as fuel as efficiently as do those who are not stressed.

The Thrive Diet is not about perfection or idealism, it's about progress.

Minimize saturated fat and avoid trans fats. If you see the word hydrogenated in the ingredient list, don't buy it.

6 cups Grape-Nuts Flakes 5 cups whole-wheat flour 5 teaspoons baking soda 3 cups Splenda 4 large eggs 1 quart low-fat buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup unsweetened applesauce 6 large bananas, mashed

Hey, lay off the dairy. And uh, no more happiness.

In other words, volume trumps calories. We eat the volume we want, not the calories we want.

the idea of eating better is do-able. While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today.

Is It Baby Fat or Real Fat? The answer partly depends on the parents. A study of 854 Washington State children under three years old showed that a child is nearly three times as likely to grow up obese if one of his parents is obese. If you're overweight, your child has a 65–75 percent chance of growing up to be overweight. So, is that little paunch on your fourth grader baby fat? Not if you're sporting the same paunch.

Even though I was appointed by the White House to be executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's agency in charge of the 2010 United States Dietary Guidelines, and even though I am a past president of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, I still don't think most nutrition education is very effective. People know that an apple is better for them than a Snickers bar, but . . . they eat the Snickers bar anyway.

Beware of the health halo. The better the food, the worse the extras. People eating 'low-fat' granola ate 21 percent more calories, and those eating 'healthy' at Subway rewarded themselves by ordering cheese, mayo, chips, and cookies. Who really overeats—the guy who knows he's eating 710 calories at McDonald's, or the woman who thinks she's eating a 350-calorie Subway meal that actually contains 500 calories?

Serving sizes start to make sense only when foods are individually packaged.

Yet the heavier a person was—American or French—the more they relied on external cues to tell them when to stop eating and the less they relied on whether they felt full.13