407 Quotes About Diet

It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.

It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.

In contrast to all the other things we work on in life that are far less likely to increase our wellbeing - including dieting - it is astonishing how little effort we put into changing our eating preferences for the better.

Avoid ‘distracting’ meals such as TV dinners and computer lunches. replace the biscuit jar with a fruit bowl. Repackage food into smaller containers. Order half-size portions in restaurants. Replace short wide glasses with tall narrow ones. And get smaller plates.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.