Greg Rutherford Quotes

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

Processed sugar - there's nothing good about it. It's a huge, huge industry, and it's poison.

Cutting sugar made the most difference to my body. It's the devil. It's addictive, and it's in so many things you wouldn't even think of. Sugar is put in sauces, breads, and yoghurts. It's not always obvious, but so many things are packed in sugar.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about.

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

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.

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

Sugar is the new tobacco.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

I think dieting is bad for you.

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