Quotes About Nutrition

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

Knowledge does not change behavior," he said. "We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors." He knew that telling the mothers about nutrition wouldn't change their behavior. They'd have to practice it.

The U.S. government has a 5 A Day campaign that's designed to encourage kids to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. McDonald's alone outspends this campaign by a ratio of 350 to 1.

McDonald's alone outspends the 5 A Day campaign by 350 to 1.

If a child sees a McDonald's commercial every single day, it would take them almost a year to see just one commercial about 5 A Day.

Mindless Eating, by Brian Wansink [Dieting

Our median customer is 32 years old, married, with kids; and 93% of our customers work a full-time job. Our typical customer has 1.7 children (with 1.3 under the age of five). Her top 3 reasons for buying our product are 1) convenience, 2) familiar flavor, and 3) "not as bad" nutritionally as many of our competitors.

A single M&M has 4 calories. In order to burn off the calories in a single M&M, you'd have to walk 2 flights of stairs.

A pyramid signifies hierarchy, yet no hierarchy is evident in the Food Pyramid.

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the Possession Diet. It's fast. It works. It introduces you to new, healthier foods. And it's almost never fatal.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

Good digestion is for the bovine.

A study of nearly four thousand children4 in the UK (where kids are susceptible to similar food temptations as our own) found that eating a fat, sugar, or processed-food diet at age three was directly linked to lower IQ at age eight.

The Simple Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me About Why Children Need Real Food,

we wouldn't offer our child just one kind of book if we wanted him to become an avid reader: we can learn how to do the same with food.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.

When you are faced with food that has been sterilized, fumigated, hydrogenated, hydrolyzed, homogenized, colored, bleached, puffed, exploded, defatted, degermed, texturized, or if you don't know what has been done to it, the safest rule is not to eat it.