Quotes About Nutrition

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

Exercise is an important component, as is cutting back on processed meats, such as bacon, sausage and cold cuts, and limiting your intake of hard cheese.

Be food aware—remember that fresh meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, nuts, seeds and occasional fruits and starches are the foods nature intended you to eat.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

A full stomach at midday made for a dull head in the afternoon

Following the darkened, hushed corridor toward his mother's room, Dagou imagines a future menu for the night nurses. Winnie always said, A little food never hurts. These nurses might like the basics: chicken and broccoli, shrimp with pea pods, garlic eggplant, and house special lo mein. (But for his mother he will concoct a special bone soup with a beaten egg white, seaweed for iron, and black wood ears for lowering the blood pressure.)

I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.

Cuando se habla de comer, hecho por demás importante, sólo los necios o los enfermos no le dan el interés que merece.

Many dinners emerging from the scientific kitchen were entirely white…

Compounds like wedding cake, suet plum-puddings, and rich turtle soup, are masses of indigestible material, which should never find their way to any Christian table (Shapiro citing Mary Peabody Mann, Christianity in the Kitchen).

You enjoying your rabbit food?" I asked. "That was low, Anita," he said, and he stirred his salad with his fork, not really eating it. Maybe that was how you lost weight on salads; you just didn't want to eat them, so you didn't eat, and voilà, you lost weight.

Now, I'm sure you are thinking, were they really children, or were they adults who hadn't eaten protein or calcium in so many years that their bone structure was actually in an advanced state of atrophy and they appeared much smaller than people who eat food?

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure

Health is wealth but being wealthy does not mean one is healthy.

Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile.