Quotes About Nutrition

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.

I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.

The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

Beans SIDEKICKS: All beans are included in this SuperFood category, though we'll discuss the most popular and readily available beans such as pinto, navy, Great Northern, lima, garbanzo (chickpeas), lentils, green beans, sugar snap peas, and green peas TRY TO EAT: at least four ½-cup servings per week Beans contain: Low-fat protein Fiber B vitamins Iron Folate Potassium Magnesium Phytonutrients

Blueberries SIDEKICKS: Purple grapes, cranberries, boysenberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, blackberries, cherries, and all other varieties of fresh, frozen, or dried berries TRY TO EAT: 1 to 2 cups daily

Sprouts = Super Broccoli Researchers estimate that broccoli sprouts provide ten to one hundred times the power of mature broccoli to neutralize carcinogens. A sprinkling of broccoli sprouts in your salad or on your sandwich can do more than even a couple of spears of broccoli. This is especially good news for those few people—particularly children—who refuse to eat broccoli. Check www. broccosprouts.com to learn more about this nutrition-packed veggie and where you can buy it.

Oats SUPER SIDEKICKS: wheat germ and ground flaxseed SIDEKICKS: brown rice, barley, wheat, buckwheat, rye, millet, bulgur wheat, amaranth, quinoa, triticale, kamut, yellow corn, wild rice, spelt, couscous TRY TO EAT: 5 to 7 servings a day

Tomatoes SIDEKICKS: red watermelon, pink grapefruit, Japanese persimmons, red-fleshed papaya, strawberry guava TRY TO EAT: one serving of processed tomatoes or sidekicks per day and multiple servings per week of fresh tomatoes

Oranges SIDEKICKS: lemons, white and pink grapefruit, kumquats, tangerines, limes TRY TO EAT: 1 serving daily

Pumpkin SIDEKICKS: carrots, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, orange bell peppers TRY TO EAT: ½ cup most days

Yogurt YOGURT SIDEKICKS: kefir TRY TO EAT: 2 cups daily

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.

To begin with, your body does not have a lot of sugar to use as energy. Of the approximately 160,000 calories stored in the body, only about 2,500 come from sugar (23,000 are protein; 134,500 are from fat).

trainees would improve their rate of gaining if they would halve their training volume per workout, double the rest days between workouts, get serious about delivering real effort in the reduced training time, and pay more attention to ensuring that sufficient calories and nutrients are consumed each day.