Quotes About Nutrition

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

The real food is not being advertised.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs.

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

I agree that zinc is one of the important micro-nutrients but people require a balanced blend of food for our biological engines.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

I swear it's so easy. You don't have to have a diet mentality at all if you eat healthily, plant-based food.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

Your body considers alcohol a toxin and will basically stop trying to digest food you ate to get rid of the alcohol and this can cause the food you ate throughout the day to be stored as fat.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.