Quotes About Nutrition

If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.

I used to love eating canned fruit. Once I learned how to read a food label, I learned that canned fruit is arguably the least healthy form of fruit consumption.

You can train like a Royal Marine every day of your life, but if your diet isn't right, you won't ever see the fruits of your labour.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

quinoa + bell peppers + carrots + parsley + rice vinegar + sesame oil/seeds

Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but if the doctor is cute, forget the fruit

dairy foods are fine to eat if you like them, but they are not a nutritional requirement. Think of cows: they do not drink milk after weaning, but their bones support bodies weighing 800 pounds or more. Cows feed on grass, and grass contains calcium in small amounts—but those amounts add up. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, you can have healthy bones without having to consume dairy foods.

Americans consume nearly a quarter of all their food in their cars, for crying out loud. Americans graze through the kitchen, popping precooked, heat-and-eat, bar-coded packages into the microwave for eating-on-the-run.

Currently, forty-four percent of the milk ordered by schools is high in fat—either two percent or whole milk.21 Ninety-seven percent of schools offer low-fat or fat-free milk. However, thirty-one percent still offer whole milk.22

Populations that do not typically consume dairy products appear to exhibit lower rates of bone fracture despite consuming far less calcium than recommended.

We work with nutrition and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of energy we possess—our emotions.

Around 13% of people worldwide are malnourished. How much food would it take to meet their caloric needs? Just 3% of the global food supply. To put that in context, 30%–50% of the world's food gets lost post-harvest, wasted in global supply chains, or scraped off dinner plates and into kitchen bins.44 Hunger could, in effect, be ended with just 10% of the food that never gets eaten.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

Dietary patterns are set at a very early age—somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.

Research shows that what works and is healthy for adults also works well for children, if adjusted to be age-appropriate. Children, like adults, do not suffer from a deficiency of white sugar, white flour, junk food, or processed foods. A growing child as well as an adult is hurt by junk foods and benefited by healthy foods.

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

The most basic thing was to eat food in its most unadulterated form, eat as much as you want, whenever you want, because with real food the body will tell you when it's had enough.