nutrition quotes

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

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

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it’s going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it’s 6. Done!

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.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

I eat next to nothing.

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

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.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

An army marches on its stomach.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

I won’t eat anything green.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Real food, I’ve found, is actually better than dieting.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.