Quotes

Quotes That Say it All

These quotes have been very carefully selected. Behind the wisdom of each quote is a
tremendous amount of research that makes each of these thought-provoking and profound.

Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food. - Hippocrates
Do not regret getting older. It is a privilege denied to many.
It's the road to failure trying to eat less exercise more. - Dr. Joel Fuhrman
You wouldn't think of watering a plant with soda. - Michelle Obama
It's unfortunate that your longevity may be influenced more by your ZIP code than genetic code. - Thomas Frieden, Director of the CDC
Health is our greatest wealth. - Virgil
We don't have a healthcare system in this country. We have a disease management system. - Dr. Andrew Weil
If you want to know what health is worth, ask the person who has lost it. - John Robbins
Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffett
The idea of preventative medicine is faintly un‐American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us. - Chicago Tribune, 1975
There's no money in prevention. - Otis Brawley (Chief Medical Officer American Cancer Society)
No one profits from lifestyle medicine, so it is not part of medical education or practice. It should be the foundation of our healthcare system. - Dr. Michael Greger
Doctors tend to confuse what they believe with what they know. - Dr. Otis Brawley
Most Americans can't run as far as they like to eat. - Dr. William Castelli (former director of the Framingham Cardiovascular Institute)
Statins should be reserved for very sick people, and a healthy diet is for everyone. - Dr. John McDougall
It's a complete myth that pills make you healthy. - Dr. Terry Shintani
Our children have earned the titles Generation Rx and Generation XL. They are 30% of our population and 100% of our future. Protect them. - Robyn O'Brien
Walking: a million years to learn and one generation to forget.
Stop eating crap and exercise six days a week. - Chris Crowley (author Younger Next Year)
Food is the most powerful clinical intervention against chronic disease doctors have. We should be able to write recipes on prescription slips, just like prescription medication. And every doctor should know how. - Dr. John La Puma
The one topic that never comes up is taste. Taste is so fundamental to food that I cannot imagine any meaningful vision of our food system that does not take taste into account. - Mitchell Davis (Executive VP of the James Beard Foundation)
The ubiquitious presence of food, large portion sizes, incessant marketing, and the cultural assumption that it's acceptable to eat anywhere, at any time, have combined to put more and more people at risk. - Dr. David Kessler

It's solely and exclusively about calories in and calories out. - Dr. David Katz
We don't do a very good job of educating our population on how to go about changing health behaviors. - Dr. Steven Blair

People kill themselves with their knives and their forks. - Jack LaLane

Food marketers have done to the potato and the ear of corn what British Petroleum did to the gulf: They took a great source of natural food, and covered it in oil. - Eat This, Not That
The things we eat are not recognized by our body as food. – Jonathan Bailor
If you let people in white lab coats design your food, you'll see people in white coats to treat your disease. - Joe Cross

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. - Meryl Streep
Whole foods and industrial foods (processed) are the only two food groups I'd consider including in any food pyramid. - Gyorgy Scrinis
Our bodies have a remarkable ability to begin healing themselves if we simply stop doing what's causing the problem. - Dr. Dean OrnIsh

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars. - Food Matters

Obesity is the single greatest threat to public health in this century. - Advisory Committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

For Americans today, healthy eating is like swimming upstream. It's not that you can't do it, it's just it's so hard. - Margo Wootan

Given school cafeteria menus, it's no wonder that our nation's children are developing poor eating habits. As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition. - Lynda Resnick

What’s with the small plate? Such a tiny plate? It’s what my grandmother used to eat from. - Larry David

Imagine a vast national experiment to encourage weight gain. We put fast food on every corner, we put junk food in schools, we got rid of P.E., we put candy and soda at the checkout stand of every retail outlet you can think of.The results are in. It worked. - Harold Goldstein
Tragically, most people are totally unaware that they are only a few weeks of discipline away from being able to comfortably maintain healthful dietary habits, and to keep away from the products that can result in the destruction of their health. Instead, most people think that if they were to eat more healthfully, they would be condemned to a life of greatly reduced gustatory pleasure. This is an extraordinarily deceptive and problematic situation that I describe as a pleasure trap. - Dr. Doug Lisle

As a population, we cut dietary fat in a rather dysfunctional way, and we grew even fatter. - Dr. David L. Katz

Some have compared the effort of trying to eat healthy in modern society with trying to be a recovered alcoholic in a town with a bar on every block. - Duke Diet Center

Americans enjoy one of the most luxurious lifestyles on Earth: Our food is plentiful. Our work is automated. Our leisure is effortless. And it’s killing us. – National Geographic

Nothing fundamental in human physiology, and certainly nothing fundamental in the human genome, has changed over just the past few decades during which epidemic obesity has emerged. Human physiology is substantially the same as it ever was. - Dr. David L. Katz

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. - Thomas Edison
Protein is nature's diet pill. - Dr. Ann Kulze

Fiber is your best friend. - Dr. Neal Barnard
Every diet that works is low sugar and high fiber. Because every diet that works is real food. – Dr. Robert Lustig
Eating a bagel and eating a cup of sugar may taste different, but metabolically they are no different. - Dr. David Ludwig

You can leave the Western diet without leaving civilization. - Michael Pollan
No need to cleanse or detox your body, but your cupboards, fridge and freezer are another story. - General Healthy

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. - Albert Einstein

The cultural norm around food has changed. Children think that they should be getting candy, cookies, chips, and soda all the time. - Margo Wootan
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water to children, or do you want a chance to change the world? - Steve Jobs to John Sculley (CEO of PepsiCo)

We live in an environment in which the default is to eat very badly. It's to eat too much, too often, and too large portions of not very good food. We need to change the default. - Marion Nestle

There is not one single mechanism in a plant-based diet that is responsible for its health promoting effects. It's not about individual nutrients. It's the 100,000 chemicals from plant foods that work together synergistically that bring about good health. Good nutrition supported by exercise, water, and sunshine is greater than the sum of its parts. It's a biological symphony. - Dr. T. Colin Campbell
The truth is: If you are on medication, by definition you are unhealthy. - Dr. Terry Shintani

It’s much easier to do prevention than treatment. - Dr. Michael Roizen