Quotes About Nutrition

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

In our house, we do everything whole: whole milk and full-fat cheeses. And I use ghee and coconut oil for cooking.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

Look at bread, and see it as a Dairy Milk Cadbury's chocolate bar, and say to yourself, 'OK, you don't need that.' Bread is bad.

The best thing about running is that you can eat a lot and still feel OK.

As you get older, you start trying to eat a little bit better, and just do a little better.

Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

While the olive is high in fat, it's monounsaturated fat, which, in a balanced diet, can help control heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels.

I make sure to eat dishes made in olive oil, whether virgin or extra virgin; the dish has to be made in olive oil. I believe it's the healthiest oil that you can consume to stay fit.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

After the Olympics I was going to a lot of functions and found that if I was eating badly my energy levels dropped.

I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy.

People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

I have an ongoing fight with fast food.

I love liver and onions or a roast dinner.

The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

I've worked with a lot of beauty companies over the years, but I really have to say that my own routine is very natural; like, I really try to be careful about the stuff I'm putting into my body, onto my body. I do believe in beauty foods - like, a lot of blueberries, salmon, kale, quinoa, avocado.

My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete. It's a whole other level that I'm elevating to.

There's all kinds of research that shows children operate best if they start the day with some proper food inside them - it's a no-brainer.

My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.