Quotes About Nutrition

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food

Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

All disease begins in the gut.

When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.

Una dieta que consista principalmente en alimentos derivados de animales, como carne, leche y otros productos lácteos, genera grandes cantidades de proteína defectuosa o basura.

Creo que es necesario para nosotros como seres humanos aprender más de la naturaleza y, con gran humildad, regresar a los fundamentos básicos de los alimentos.

debes haber terminado de cenar como muy tarde a las nueve de la noche, idealmente a las seis o a las siete de la tarde.

La principal razón por la que la ingestión de carne daña nuestros intestinos es porque la carne no contiene fibra, sino una gran cantidad de grasa y colesterol.

Lo que necesitamos en el futuro es medicina preventiva. Y para instituir una medicina preventiva correcta es indispensable un conocimiento adecuado sobre las dietas.

Los medicamentos no pueden fundamentalmente curar enfermedades. El único camino esencial para curar cualquier enfermedad estriba en nuestro estilo de vida diario.

La leche que contiene grasa oxidada entonces se pasteuriza a altas temperaturas, superiores a los 100 ºC. Las enzimas son sensibles al calor y comienzan a destruirse a los 93 ºC. Es decir, la leche que se vende en las tiendas no sólo carece de las preciadas enzimas, sino que la grasa está oxidada y la calidad de las proteínas cambia debido a las altas temperaturas. En cierto sentido, la leche es el peor tipo de alimento.

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

Once, when Nick, Alice, and Elisabeth went away for a weekend together, Elisabeth spent ages at the breakfast table studying the "nutritional information" panel on the side of a container of yogurt, warning them darkly, "You have to be really careful with yogurt." Whenever Nick and Alice ate yogurt after that, one of them would always shout, "Careful!

You will eat slowly and mindfully and only what your body needs.

God, I'm hungry. Have you tried the 5:2 diet? This is my fast day. I am dying of starvation.

Every time she managed to get him to eat something healthy she found herself deeply satisfied, her mouth virtually chewing along with his, as if some innate, biological need was being met.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.

I don't understand why doctors don't advise everybody to lay on twenty extra pounds while they've got the chance. I might not advocate outright obesity, but there's a reason for fat - it's a resource.

Whenever I see fat people, they're eating," I ruminated safely out of the diner's earshot. "Don't give me this it's glands or genes or a slow metabolism rubbish. It's food. They're fat because they eat the wrong food, too much of it, and all the time.

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.