Quotes About Nutrition

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

My experience with short rations in many places has convinced me that we would all be healthier and better nourished if we ate half as much food and chewed it twice as long.

College Psychology 101 explained that children cannot learn when they are hungry, smelly or teased.

To the best of our knowledge, there's no evidence that GMOs (genetically modified organisms that have been designed or manipulated to produce certain characteristics) can affect your child's microbiome in any way.

This research raises the possibility that regular consumption of artificial sweeteners may induce a shift in levels of the hormones that control insulin production

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

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In accordance with this difference in the productions of the different regions of the earth, there seems to be a difference in the constitutions of the races of men formed to inhabit them. The tribes that inhabit Greenland and Kamtschatka can not preserve their accustomed health and vigor on any other than animal food. If put upon a diet of vegetables they soon begin to pine away. The reverse is true of the vegetable-eaters of the tropics.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

Everyone has a doctor in him; we just have to help him in his work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. . . . To eat when you are sick is to feed your sickness. —Hippocrates

A ketogenic diet is one in which glucogenic (glucose-producing) substrates (non-fiber carbohydrates and glucogenic amino acids) are low enough to force the body to rely primarily on fat as fuel and increase the production of ketone bodies.

physiology of diet-induced ketosis involves the lowering of blood glucose, stored glycogen, and insulin levels. The result is an enhanced release and reliance on fat as fuel.

One thing that does appear certain is that consuming less than 1.0 to 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight results in declines in both lean mass and endurance performance (Phinney et al., 2004).

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

I still love canned sardines, served simply on top of salad with finely sliced onion and a sprinkling of red wine vinegar.