Food Pyramid Quotes

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

Try telling people in the Seventies that butter was healthier for you than margarine, and they would force feed you with Stork.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.

Our food pyramid, the kind of diet that is constantly promoted, is completely warped. It's not based around anything to do with healing your body.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that's not the way our food system in America is set up. It's very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

I do not follow a charted diet plan. I eat everything.

I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.