Nutrient Deficiency Quotes

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

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

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

There are at least 1 billion people who struggle for basic caloric protein sufficiency; probably another 2 billion people … who have serious micronutrient deficiency… We don’t have a healthy food supply for the world, nor is it assured for the future.

There’s a difference between fasting for a week and starving for a week.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Evolutionary biologists have long pondered the phenomenon of the changing colours of autumn leaves. It's possible that the red pigments are manufactured in the leaf as a side-effect of something else that's happening at this time.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.

I became allergic to virtually all fruits and vegetables, and my weight tumbled. I am 5ft. 10in. but dropped to just 8 st. 7lbs.

I definitely stay on top of my Vitamin C.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

The only meal I have is dinner.

Hunger steals the memory

I put my son's nutritional needs first, and existed on pasta and thin air more times than I would dare to admit.

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

All soils are not fertile.

Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.

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

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue