Diets Quotes - Page 33

• Where do you go to get anorexia?

  Shelley Winters

  Inspiring, Food, Anorexia

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• Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation.

  Kim Williams

  Winning, Cake, Two

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• 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.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Science, Vegetables, Roots

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• Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

  Maimonides

  Food, Healing, Health

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• In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.

  Stephen J. Dubner

  Funny, Thoughtful, People

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• I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

  William Banting

  Indulge In, Watches, Add

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Horse, Illustration, Ordinary

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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• The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

  Nathan Pritikin

  Perfect, Fad Diets, Want

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• The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century

  Gary Taubes

  Blood, Water, Pressure

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• My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Years, Track, Competition

  Introduction to "Very Vegetarian" by Jannequin Bennett, 2001.

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• This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

  David Henry Hwang

  Air, Listening, World

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

  Denise Van Outen

  Girl, Thinking, Role Models

  "How Denise van Outen lost weight". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 28, 2008.

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• The fountain of youth for me, let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex — yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!

  Cameron Diaz

  Sex, Laughter, Exercise

  "Cameron Diaz: 'Lots of Sex' Is My 'Fountain of Youth'". U.K Vogue Interview, www.usmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Heart, Men, Oil

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.97, BenBella Books

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• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Numbers, Meat, Looks

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Eating Well, Too Late, Way

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.17, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Healthy, Population, Way

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.61, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, People, Introducing

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• Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Wind, Suffering, Trying

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• Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Style

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• Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Fasting, Alternatives, Disease

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• The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Animal, Oil, Soy

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• All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.

  Michael Klaper

  Heart, Vegetarianism, Numbers

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• You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, Air, Land

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• If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!

  Howard Lyman

  Talking, Healthy, World

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