Diet and Wellness Quotes

"A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease."

"A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases."

"A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet."

"A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products."

"A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses."

"After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researchers found those who consume a plant-based diet were less likely to develop all forms of cancer combined."

"All fats do not behave the same way in your body, and certain fats, including the omega-3 fats in salmon and other fatty fish and the monounsaturated fats in nuts, virgin olive oil, and avocados, are integral to a healthy diet."

"Although many people believe that the primary emphasis of my work is about diet, it's not. What we eat is important, of course, but what comes out of our mouth may be more important than what goes into it."

"An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends."

"An athlete's diet is a complicated thing."

"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."

"Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods."

"As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people want practical information they can use."

"Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator."

"Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache."

"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."

"Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment."

"Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied."

"Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat."

"Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn't require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live."

"Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more."

"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you."

"Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories."

"Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating."

"Eating a natural diet with loads of fresh fruit and veg and little processed food helps me manage the symptoms of my illness."

"Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone."

"Establishing healthy habits - like eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, and participating in regular exercise - can also go a long way to improving how you feel. Similarly, getting rid of destructive mental habits, like engaging in self-pity or ruminating on the past, can also do wonders for your emotional well-being."

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."

"Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk."

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

"For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee."

"For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet."

"Health food makes me sick."

"High-quality food is better for your health."

"I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up refined sugar, gluten, dairy, anything processed or refined, and meat."

"I don't believe in fad diets."

"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."

"I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself."

"I don't want people to see healthy eating as a diet. I want it to be satisfying food that everyone takes pleasure in eating."

"I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed."

"I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can."

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

"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."

"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."

"I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again."

"I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy."

"I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did."