Quotes About Nutrition

Im vegetarian, not vegan, but for health reasons I try to avoid dairy.

I'm an omnivore, although I am trying to eat less meat. I went vegetarian for about two years, then I suddenly got a craving one morning and that was it.

Being vegetarian makes me feel healthy.

At a time when you do not know what chemicals are being fed into plants, there's no way you would know how toxic animals are. So, I'd stick to vegetarian fare.

I avoid oily food. I am a vegetarian and it has helped me a lot.

Around six years back, I turned vegetarian for health reasons. This doesn't mean I feel left out. I can try grass if you put some tabasco sauce on it.

I'm a vegetarian, but now, on my doctor's orders, I have begun eating egg white.

The dieting thing, I think you have to approach as intelligently as you can. First I started as a vegetarian. And for a whole year, I gave it a shot. And it kept my weight down. But honestly, my body fat wasn't as low - I got a little bit softer. I was getting injured a lot more. I felt a lack of 'umph.'

It takes the farmer 10 kgs of vegetation to feed the animal in order to produce 1 kg of meat. In other words a meat eater consumes 10 people's food!

There is no food in the world that gives you a better feeling of walking around with veins bulging out, six-pack abs. It's the best feeling in the world.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.

I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.

You eat slower. Healthier. Chopsticks're good for you.

we need an honest approach to poverty, not one that blames the poor and leaves them to their fate. We know that the single most important key to ending the cycle of poverty is to enable today's children growing up in poverty to reach their full human potential. That in turn requires that America as a society invest in the human capital—meaning the health, nutrition, cognitive skill, and education—of every child in the nation, whether born to wealth or poverty.

Eating is natural. Gaining weight is your choice.

The hyperactivity syndrome supposedly caused by white sugar has never, ever, been verified—and not for lack of trying. In the famous New Haven study, it was the presence of the parents, not the presence of white sugar, that was causing the problem; most of the kids calmed down when their parents left the room.*

Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.

The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can't subsist on it.

The more we look at food as fuel and the more we take emotions out of eating, the more likely we are to moderate ourselves.

I ate a specific amount of food at certain times every day. This meant filling out a little form listing what I ate and taking it to my weekly dietary appointment.

Think before you eat, people: Food should be the life of you, not the death of you.

The 1950s saw the introduction of Sugar Smacks, Sugar Smiles, Sugar Rice Krinkles, Sugar Crisp, Sugar Pops, Sugar Jets, Sugar Stars, Sugar Frosted Flakes, and Corn-Fetti, "a new kind of corn flakes with the magic sugar coat!"* Trix, which we all know is for kids, came on the market containing 46 percent sugar. Sugar Smacks clocked in at 55 percent.