Browse 296 quotes about Diet.
“We can also, more than any other species, protect ourselves from being poisoned by learning about how to avoid it. Only we can read about the dangerous plants in our gardens and woodlands, and we are the the species whose diets are most shaped by social learning. A food our mothers fed us can usually be accepted as safe and nourishing. What our friends eat without apparent harm is at least worth a try. What they avoid we would be wise to treat cautiously.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“95 percent of us are not even getting the minimum recommended amount of fiber in our diets...We are the mot fiber-deprived society of the modern era, and there are no signs of that letting up.”
Source: The Fiber Fueled Cookbook: Inspiring Plant-Based Recipes to Turbocharge Your Health
“Or how cornmeal was better than flour because it had weight, and having weight is how you know your worth, so don't let anyone tell you different.”
Source: Other Birds
“The doctors ignored me when I was telling them I was food intolerant!”
“Human dietary variation, including our ability to intensify carbohydrate-rich resources, is known to be a key evolutionary strenght. Diet and environment are key drivers of our evolutionay past, and a transition to agriculture among many populations worldwide has had far-reaching implications for our foodways and health.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Diet has played a role in the evolutionary success of our species and the diversity of local diets exploited may be a key to a health strategy in adapting to local environments.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“What we eat today creates the blueprints for our health later in life.”
“Oh, Mr Pillbug, I think I'll probably never forget you, maybe.
I eat him, of course. As usual, it's repulsive.”
Source: So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1
“Today we may be living in high-rise apartments with over-stuffed refrigerators, but our DNA still thinks we are in the Savannah. That’s what makes us spoon down an entire tub of Ben & Jerry when we find one in the freezer and wash it down with a jumbo Coke.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”
“With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“There is a deep resistance to the idea of dietary change, at both a cultural and an individual level. And yet, you accept the premise that eating is a learned behaviour, it follows that changing eating habits must be - if not likely and certainly not easy - at least possible.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“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.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Dietary change comes not from forcing someone to eat what they do not like, but in helping them to discover their own passions.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“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.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It may not feel like it, but you never lost your potential to change how you eat. The wonderful secret of being an omnivore is that we can adjust our desires, even late in the game. It won’t happen on the first bite.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“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.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Just as calories differ according to how they affect the body, so too do carbohydrates. All carbohydrates break down into sugar, but the rate at which this occurs in the digestive tract varies tremendously from food to food. This difference forms the basis for the glycemic index (GI).
The GI ranks carbohydrate-containing foods according to how they affect blood glucose, from 0 (no affect at all) to 100 (equal to glucose). Gram for gram, most starchy foods raise blood glucose to very high levels and therefore have high GI values. In fact, highly processed grain products – like white bread, white rice, and prepared breakfast cereals – and the modern white potato digest so quickly that their GI ratings are even greater than table sugar (sucrose). So for breakfast, you could have a bowl of cornflakes with no added sugar, or a bowl of sugar with no added cornflakes. They would taste different but, below the neck, act more or less the same.
A related concept is the glycemic load (GL), which accounts for the different carbohydrate content of foods typically consumed. Watermelon has a high GI, but relatively little carbohydrate in a standard serving, producing a moderate GL. In contrast, white potato has a high GI and lots of carbohydrate in a serving, producing a high GL. If this sounds a bit complicated, think of GI as describing how foods rank in a laboratory setting, whereas GL as applying more directly to a real-life setting. Research has shown that the GL reliably predicts, to within about 90 percent, how blood glucose will change after an actual meal – much better than simply counting carbohydrates as people with diabetes have been taught to do.”
Source: Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
“There’s also some indication that replacing carbohydrate with plant rather than animal foods has special health benefits. Among approximately eighty thousand women in the Nurses’ Health Study consuming lower-carbohydrate diets, high consumption of vegetable protein and fat was associated with a 30 percent lower risk for heart disease over twenty years, whereas high consumption of animal protein and fat appear to provide no such protection.
One explanation for this finding is that the relative amounts of amino acids in animal protein stimulate more insulin and less glucagon release than those in plant protein – a hormone combination that has detrimental effects on serum cholesterol and fat-cell metabolism. Other possible downsides of a modern, animal-based diet include a less healthful profile of dietary fats, excessive iron absorption (especially for men), and chronic exposure to hormones, preservatives, and environmental pollutants.”
Source: Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
“Food prepared more than three hours before being eaten, food that is tasteless, decomposed and putrid, and food consisting of remnants and untouchable things is dear to those in the mode of darkness.”
Source: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
“Some people do not really hate junk food. They merely love themselves a lot.”
“I don't mean it unfavorably. I myself have a problem pushing away from the table. Some of us are simply hungrier than others, and what is there to be done about it? Are we meant to starve?”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“A wonderful organic cook as a partner makes for good health.”
“You don’t need to be on a diet.
Feed yourself with what it’s needed to fulfill your mental and physical demands.
There is no perfect or permanent diet.
Self-knowledge is the key to health.”
Source: Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You
“The idea that foods and diets will “just mix” when they come into contact is clearly a vast oversimplification.”
Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“One thing consumed drugs all have in common, is our initial natural aversion toward them. The first mouthful of alcohol we drink is generally followed by an involuntary grimace. The first puff on a chemical-laden cigarette is followed often by a cough and splutter as the body tries to repel the alien pollution thrust upon it. Our first coffee and tea are generally also greeted somewhat similarly. Of course, it is frequently the case that despite these initial reactions, we push on past them until addiction is formed. Cooked food, although noticeably less recognised as addictive, evokes no less an initial reaction. Think of all those babies whose faces screw up in displeasure vainly attempting rejection of the denatured slop thrust upon them, and the hours spent crying from stomach pains. By the time they are advanced enough to linguistically voice their lack of desire for such foods, they are, alas, already well hooked.”
Source: Destination Eden - Eden Fruitarianism Explained
“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea food were the principal foods. Animal flesh was not used commonly due to the inconvenience of storing. Turf was the common fuel.”
“Bread, however, is their chief food. It is cheap; they like it; it comes into the house ready cooked, it is always at hand, and needs no plate and spoon. Spread with a scraping of butter, jam, or margarine, according to the length of purse of the mother, they never, tire of it as long as they are in their ordinary state of health. They receive it into their hands, and can please themselves as to where and how they eat it. It makes the sole article in the menu for two meals in the day. Dinner may consist of anything from the joint on Sunday to boiled rice on Friday. Potatoes will play a great part as a rule, at dinner, but breakfast and tea will be bread.”
Source: Round About a Pound a Week
“Twenty years ago, the vast majority of persons, as we then wrote, had never tasted a really new-laid egg, and did not know what it was like: now many thousands do, and are willing to pay for it.”
Source: The Book Of Poultry: With Practical Schedules For Judging, Constructed From Actual Analysis Of The Best Modern Decisions
“This is how I lose weight:
Time to raid the stores and buy as much junk food as I can!
OOPS! Oh, well, I will start on my diet next week.”
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
“Our genes still expect us to eat a higher fat diet; they still see agricultural foods (and modern foods such as sugar), as poisonous; they still see lack of sunlight and exercise as problematic. We haven't genetically adapted to modern life because there is no selection pressure in the civilised world.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Your original 'factory setting' is to be an efficient fat-burning beast!”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Our ancestors went for days without anything to eat, and carbohydrates were extremely scarce for two million years. The truth is, fat is the preferred fuel for human metabolism.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Oily, cold-water fish from remote, pollution-free waters (anchovies, herring, mackerel, salmon, sardines) are some of the most nutrient-rich foods on the planet: no other food comes close to their omega-3 levels.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Adjust your mentality to make veggies a centrepiece of your meals and snacks. Get comfortable with occasionally consuming larger quantities than typical Western diet traditions call for.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are truly hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.”
Source: Become a Better You
“Your Primal efforts must be fun, energising and easy to maintain at all times, otherwise, you are destined to fail.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Regardless of your starting point, past failures or bad luck with familial genes, you can turn things around quickly – starting with your next mail and next workout. Your genes expect you to be lean, strong, energetic and healthy.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Our ancestors, who were able to survive and reproduce under unimaginably harsh environmental circumstances, refined and perfected the human genetic recipe.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Food is part of God's creating. A right relationship with food points us toward Him.... The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us.”
“Eating a can be the weight that pulls you under or the life raft. It's your choice.”
Source: EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!
“We live in a world where it is completely the norm to worry about what we put in our bodies but worry very little about what we throw in our minds. We think a hamburger is bad but a celebrity gossip magazine is completely harmless. As children you never hear “don’t put that garbage in your mind,” but for our body counterpart it is common thread. There is something very wrong with this scenario.”
Source: Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed”