Quotes About Nutrition

the first thing a doctor does when you tell him you are going to a house where there's a French cook is to put you on a diet.

the more brutal or austere the diet, the harder it is to keep.

Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.

But eating carbohydrates is like eating hungry pills.

I've gotten to the point where I'm not even a little apologetic about this business of not eating stuff that's bad for me. No one else has to live with my fat, work through my energy and mood swings, pay my doctor bills, fight my cravings, for face my family history of diabetes and cancer. If people insist, I can get a little testy.

recommend peanut, sunflower, or canola oil. These are the oils I mean when I simply specify "oil" in a recipe. Avoid highly polyunsaturated oils such as safflower; they deteriorate quickly both from heat and from contact with oxygen, and they've been associated with an increased risk of cancer.

we baked all our own bread;

beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones can act like slow poison in our bodies.

I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Until the mid-1700s, newborn babies were often fed, or "dry-nursed," with bread, cake or biscuit mixed with cow's milk, butter and sugar—known as "pap"—supplemented by brandy, rum or wine

Herodotus has preserved for us an inscription that he found on one pyramid, recording the quantity of radishes, garlic and onions consumed by the workmen who built it;

Si los conocimientos agrícolas existentes se aplicasen en todas partes, el planeta podría alimentar al doble de su población actual.