American Diet Quotes

• Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Ice Cream, Average

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• It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

  Jerry Brown

  Looks, World, Obvious

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• The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Way, Fats

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

  Bruce Barton

  Cereal, Healthy, Eating

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• If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Bigs, Bigger

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  Cameron Diaz

  Sweet, Food, People

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• I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

  Carre Otis

  Drug, Fasting, Pills

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• I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

  Naomi Campbell

  Work Out, Drink, Now And Then

  "Naomi Campbell reveals extreme beauty regime on Oprah Winfrey slot" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, Good Morning, Dog

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• We can all put weight on or lose weight.

  Keith Emerson

  Weight, Diets, Loses

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• 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.

  Michelle Obama

  Healthy, Marketing, Limits

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• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  Barbara Cartland

  Food, Energy, Matter

  The Observer Newspaper, January 11, 1981.

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• 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.

  Fran Drescher

  Years, Weight, Allergies

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• People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  Jack LaLanne

  Dog, Morning, Coffee

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• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

  Maimonides

  Inspiring, Food, Mean

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• So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

  Mike Ditka

  Baby Boy, Thinking, Years

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• Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

  Mike Ditka

  Stay Strong, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

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• 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.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Holiday

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• The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.

  Lee Haney

  Healthy, Training, Way

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• Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

  Andrew Weil

  Men, Bones, Enough

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Sadness, Heart

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Faces, Problem

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.

  Michael Pollan

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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