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Quotes About Nutrition

Blueberries, blackberries, and dark-blue grapes contain anthocyanins, which give them their dark-blue
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Polyphenols—micronutrients found in most every plant—have a variety of health benefits. You can find them in
~ Gerald M. Lemole
We Eat the Wrong Kinds of Fats: A typical American diet averages 34 to 40 percent fat. Even as far back as 1988, the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health attributed 35 percent of cancer deaths to diet, saying
~ Gerald M. Lemole
beans, berries, veggies, and more. The reason we love them: They're known lymphagogues—meaning they promote the production of lymph.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
dietary fat was linked to them. The American diet is full of the so-called "bad" fats, saturated fats derived from animal and dairy sources and fried foods (oxidized, also known as "rancid" fats). Studies have shown that even fats once thought to be healthy, such as margarines and other trans fats, actually promote degenerative disease. The American Heart Association and National Cancer Institute recommend that the
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Consider supplementation. The standard American diet (SAD) that most Americans follow has way too many simple carbohydrates like sugar and starch, as well as unhealthy oils that lead to inflammatory
~ Gerald M. Lemole
We Don't Get Enough Fiber: We know that the word "fiber" is something you may associate with old age, constipation, or both. But the fact is that Americans don't get enough of this colon-cleansing form of carbohydrates. This low-fiber diet is directly related to our high incidence of hemorrhoids
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Magnesium Fish oil D-ribose Polyphenols
~ Gerald M. Lemole
recommend these two approaches to start: Concentrate on whole foods, not processed ones. The number one thing you can do to help control your weight is concentrate on whole foods—that is, foods that appear as they come from the earth. So, yes, that means fish, beans, veggies. That doesn't mean things
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Try fasting. "Intermittent fasting" is defined in medicine as taking only water for 16 hours, coupled with eating normally for 8 hours (or other schedules such as 18 and 6, 20 and 4, 22 and 2, etc.). For example, you could simply not eat after eight p.m., then skip breakfast the next day, followed by eating a normal lunch and dinner.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
~ English proverb
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
~ A. Whitney Brown
Oats, n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.
~ Francis C. Benedict
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
~ Anonymous
Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat — at least not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I suggest that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.
~ Mark Twain
Vending Machine: This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day. Eve: Up yours.
~ J.D. Robb
She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that's exactly what she got.
~ J.D. Robb
You gonna eat, you should eat good." From
~ J.D. Robb
True. This gluten-is-the-enemy thing is total bullshit. And don't get me started on kombucha tea, kale, anything with antioxidants in it, and the fallacy that high-fructose corn syrup is the root of all evil.
~ J.R. Ward
I find it really hard to believe you've taken an interest in nutrition." "True. This gluten-is-the-enemy thing is total bullshit. And don't get me started on kombucha tea, kale, anything with antioxidants in it, and the fallacy that high-fructose corn syrup is the root of all evil." "Did you hear that Kraft Macaroni & Cheese took out all its preservatives months ago?" "Yeah, and the bastards didn't tell anyone up front, either—
~ J.R. Ward
and remember what Somerset Maugham said. 'To dine well in England it's necessary to have breakfast three times a day.
~ Jack Higgins
I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.
~ Jack Kerouac