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Quotes About Nutrition

soda, or pasta, your body converts the carbs in them to a kind of sugar called glucose,
~ Grant Petersen
Diets that don't limit carbs, yet require smaller portions and more exercise, are doomed to fail because they keep you hungry and make you store fat.
~ Grant Petersen
I believed, as so many people do, that it is possible to exercise more and eat less and keep it up for a lifetime. That's the conventional wisdom, and it's the biggest lie in health.
~ Grant Petersen
The stresses of modern life and exposure to modern pollutants increase the need for certain nutrients that a pure meat and fat diet might not provide, so be prudent. Take an all-purpose supplement, some omega-3s, eat a few leaves, and you're covered.
~ Grant Petersen
Eating small, carb-dense meals will maintain a constant high level of glucose and insulin.
~ Grant Petersen
Lots: Young, fatty, oily fish—herring, wild salmon, sardines, and trout from the coldest waters. Eggs. Mammal meat, especially fatty meats from grass-fed or wild animals. Cheese, cream, butter, macadamia nuts, olive and coconut oils.
~ Grant Petersen
The dangers of eating too few carbs There are none. It
~ Grant Petersen
Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.
~ Greg Peterson
One final word of caution about caffeine: make sure your children don't drink caffeinated beverages in the afternoon. When a child drinks a can of cola, the caffeine intake is comparable to four cups of coffee for an adult.
~ Gregg D. Jacobs
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
~ Gregory David Roberts
With exceptions so rare that it is hard to remember one, textbooks are to books as powdered food supplements are to a good, balanced meal.
~ Gregory Millman
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.
~ Guindon cartoon caption
500 calories a day for the first few days, largely with an energy drink that's supplemented with potassium, phosphates, and thiamine, a B vitamin that the body uses up during starvation.
~ Hector Tobar
Without thiamine, feeding the men could trigger Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a nerve disorder
~ Hector Tobar
If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.
~ James Joyce
He scraped a pork chop and two eggs out of the frying pan and slid them off the spatula onto a plate. "You sure you don't want any?" "You know how much grease is in that stuff?" "That's why I've never had problems with arthritis. The grease in your food oils your joints and your connective tissue. Nobody in my family has ever had arthritis." "Because they didn't live long enough," I replied.
~ James Lee Burke
Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn't forget the basic necessity of eating.
~ James Patterson
Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.
~ James Patterson
Heck, I've even received spam e-mails telling me I can lose all the weight I want in five days
~ James Patterson