237 Quotes About Nutrition

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.

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.

foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

Life is too short not to eat raw and it's even shorter if you don't.

Honor yourself enough to take time to prepare something nourishing with love. Sit down without distractions, give thanks to your food, and enjoy it.

We realize that food is not just food in its physical expression. It becomes the essence of what it was and what it will become, carrying with it—into our cells, into our sense of selves—the energy that it has been imbued with throughout its journey.

When our preferences are in order, nutrition should take care of itself.