Quotes About Nutrition

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

Feeling good, the workout, building your muscles, let your blood flow right and eating the right type of food. That's what I care about.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

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

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.

Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.