Harley Pasternak Quotes

Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.

I watch my wheat intake.

After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.

The term "whole grain" is not largely meaningless.

Even superfine flower can be called "whole grain".

When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein, it's like putting a log on the fire.

I notice a difference in my body, in my energy, and physically in how I look. When I do have the white bread, the white flour, I just feel puffier and doughier. So I do try to be mindful of having protein and vegetables and a clean diet, really for my energy.

One piece of white bread has the same calories as three egg whites scrambled with peppers and onion. Which option do you think is better for you? If all calories were created equal, these two options would have to be nutritionally equivalent.

Carbs get a bad press, but they're pretty important.

"The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead" because white bread lacks vitamin E and lecithin.

Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.

Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.

I like pasta; it's pretty good. I'll even substitute wheat pasta in there and make it more healthy.

We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

For me, I just like to cut out bread. I like to keep the good carbs in my diet - I love pasta and Italian food - but I try to eat just that on the weekends and cut out carbs during the week.

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

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.