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Quotes About Diets

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
I remember when I was a kid rugby players were some big guys that drunk a lot of beer but now they have proper training programs and diets and all that. And the pioneers of all that is bodybuilding.
~ Dorian Yates
Dare I tell them that since I came here to dance I have been giving pieces of my body away To ridiculous diets, To repeated injuries, To Remington? And that maybe I think With each bit of my body I lose a little piece of my soul
~ Stasia Ward Kehoe
Two of the most nutritious plants in the world —lamb's quarters and purslane—are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like the Mediterranean, make frequent use of wild greens.
~ Michael Pollan
I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!
~ Jennifer Ellison
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
~ Nina Fedoroff
Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.
~ Paul McKenna
I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.
~ Dolly Parton
I just think everything in moderation. I've never been into diets and it can become an obsession for some people. At the end of the day, it's food. I really enjoy going out for dinner and everything I do socially revolves around eating.
~ Rochelle Humes
Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet they are about denial and discipline.
~ Kathy Freston
Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.
~ Geneen Roth
Your body, Lilly… don't you see? This is the body that gave birth to the human race." His words ran counter to everything that the world she lived in preached. Diets. Denial. An obsession with female bone instead of female flesh. The culture of youth and thinness. Of stinginess. Of disfigurement. Of fear.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Vaclav Smil has calculated that fertilizer from the Haber-Bosch process was responsible for "the prevailing diets of nearly 45% of the world's population." Roughly speaking, this is equivalent to feeding about 3.25 billion people. More than 3 billion men, women, and children—an incomprehensibly vast cloud of dreams, fears, and explorations—owe their existence to two early-twentieth-century German chemists.
~ Charles C. Mann
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectu-alism and much more, only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good, clean and right.
~ Chick Corea
The next frontier in nutrition will be about reconfiguring diets according to individual specific physiology, lifestyle, and health goals.
~ Denise Morrison
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
~ Michael Moore
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
~ Jean Kerr
The Founding Fathers: A bunch of old white guys who are making it nearly impossible for modern government to pick our doctors, teach our children, correct our diets, and save our money.
~ Mike Gallagher
her autobiography was as devoid of interests as her autopsy would have been. I never saw a healthier woman than she, despite thinning diets.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Diets that don't limit carbs, yet require smaller portions and more exercise, are doomed to fail because they keep you hungry and make you store fat.
~ Grant Petersen
I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
~ Natalie Martinez
I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.
~ Natalie Martinez
Diets play with your mind rather than your body, so if I'm doing a diet, I think about food more than if I'm just eating normally.
~ Caroline Flack
We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces.
~ Pamela Druckerman