Quotes About Nutrition

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

You are what what you eat eats.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

These should be as amino acid chelates; look for the minerals bound to picolinate, citrate-maleate, aspartate, etc.) A typical example might look as follows: Calcium (citrate-maleate) 500 mg

Haven't you heard – fat isn't the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.

There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I'd say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn't have to be like that.

The social food researcher Harry Balzer noted without prompting that Americans are not cooking more, they're simply eating more meals at home.

Humans were never meant to be vegetarian," Hel bubbled, her face and fangs black with fluids.

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.

Crush one medium clove of garlic and let it sit for ten to fifteen minutes, then mix with a tablespoon of honey to make it more palatable. Eat one to two cloves daily.

Approximately 12 grams of lauric acid are provided in 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, 3 tablespoons of creamed coconut, ½ cup of canned whole coconut milk, or ½ cup of dried coconut meat.

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.