dietary impact Quotes

What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?

Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.

I ended up gaining a bunch of weight on a vegetarian diet.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

What you eat is everything. What you eat is what you are.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

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.

I am stronger as a vegan than I ever was with meat and dairy.

I just look at a bagel and my ass gets bigger!

Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.

When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?