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Quotes About Nutrition

I always have bananas with me for energy.
~ Samantha Bond
If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.
~ Vaclav Smil
I think I'll be around as long as there is a market for simple, basic, non-intimidating food.
~ Jack Monroe
The things that are going to actually help you or me stay healthy are not necessarily the things that happen inside a doctor's office. They're the things that allow us to choose healthy lifestyles on a day-by-day basis.
~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.
~ Prince Fielder
Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think.
~ Roz Chast
Her body looked to be only a healthy diet and some regular exercise away from greatness
~ Jonathan Franzen
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Given that eating animals is in absolutely no way necessary for my family — unlike some in the world, we have easy access to a wide variety of other foods — should we ear animals?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Regarding US government recommendations that tend to encourage dairy consumption in the name of preventing osteoporosis, Nestle notes that in parts of the world where milk is not a staple of the diet, people often have less osteoporosis and fewer bone fractures than Americans do. The highest rates of osteoporosis are seen in countries where people consume the most dairy foods.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of broilers increased by 65%, while their time-to-market dropped 60% and their feed requirements dropped 57%. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be 300 pounds in 10 years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Americans eat 150 times as many chickens as we did only eighty years ago.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Food matters and animals matter and eating animals matters even more. The question of eating animals is ultimately driven by our intuitions about what it means to reach an ideal we have named, perhaps incorrectly, "being human.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Un jeune américain de ma connaissance, homme très-entendu, m'a certifié à Londres qu'un jeune enfant bien sain, bien nourri, est, à l'âge d'un an, un aliment délicieux, très-nourrissant et très-sain, bouilli, rôti, à l'étuvée ou au four, et je ne mets pas en doute qu'il ne puisse également servir en fricassée ou en ragoût.
~ Jonathan Swift
Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.
~ Joseph Campbell
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
~ A. Whitney Brown
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
~ A.J. Jacobs
My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
~ A.J. Jacobs
Some purebred puppies suffer from hip dysplasia, an indication of canine scurvy.
~ Abram Hoffer
The treatment of pandeficiency syndrome includes restoration of nutritious diet, attention to the intestinal flora, and the following few nutrients: vitamin B3, both niacin and niacinamide, ascorbic acid, a strong B-complex preparation like 50 mg or 100 mg B-complex, selenium, zinc, calcium, magnesium, and omega-3 essential fatty acids. The doses depend on the symptomatology.
~ Abram Hoffer
I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
~ Adam Carolla
Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.
~ Adam Rex