Processed Food Quotes

• Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

  Andrew Weil

  Food, Health, People

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• Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

  Marilu Henner

  Swings, Brain, Balance

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• I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

  Jamie Oliver

  School, Home, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a body is in an alkaline state, it avoids disease, but when it's in an acidic state - where you're eating a lot of processed foods, meat, dairy - you're not going to have that hydration in your body, and you're not going to have that ability to fight off disease, and it's going to impact your immune system and the inflammation in your body too.

  Vani Hari

  Fighting, Impact, Hydration

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• Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

  Deepak Chopra

  Earth, Ingredients, Organic Food

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• Eat for nutrition and food value. Emphasize natural foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate junk entirely.

  Vince Gironda

  Junk, Nutrition, Natural

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• The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

  Joel Salatin

  Integrity, Notion, Expensive

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

  Kris Carr

  Stress, Causes, Illness

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• I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

  Theo Rossi

  Trying, Want, Labs

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• When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

  Michael Pollan

  Sugar, Stores, Groceries

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• Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food.

  Tosca Reno

  Vegetables, Fruit, Eating

  "What is 'clean eating?' Tips from expert Tosca Reno" By Stephanie Hasbrouck, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2012.

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• The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Vegetables, Nuts

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

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• GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Gmos, United States, Soybeans

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• As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.

  Michael Moss

  Powerful, Drawing, Brain

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• There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.

  Wolfgang Puck

  America, Sick, Tourists

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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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• I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Animal, Thinking, Vegetarian Diet

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• My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

  Jessica Biel

  Mom, Mother, Hippie

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.

  Michael Moss

  Past, Government, Average

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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• I try to eliminate processed food completely out of my diet. That's bad for you.

  Teri Hatcher

  Trying, Diets

  "Teri Hatcher Talks PLANES, Why Her Character Is a Role Model for Girls, Her Hopes for PLANES 2". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Sweet, Chocolate, Too Much

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• All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn't eat processed food, she's very conscious of the quality of the things she eats but she has treats - she loves cupcakes.

  Tracy Anderson

  Cupcakes, Healthy, Quality

  "Madonna's personal trainer Tracy Anderson says she'll never let her get fat". www.mirror.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

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• It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Years, Important, Tribes

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