Quotes About Nutrition

Skeletal remains show that plant-fed humans were a head shorter than meat-eating hunters, prone to anemia, infectious diseases, rotten teeth, and bone disorders.

She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.

Sperm is high in fat and protein, which takes time for the digestive system to process.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

If man makes it, I don't eat it!

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.