Health Food Quotes

• Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

  Hippocrates

  Fitness, Medicine, Fasting

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.

  Ann Wigmore

  Food, Creativity, Health

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• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

  Socrates

  Food, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

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• The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

  Hippocrates

  Wise, Food, Health

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• Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

  Hippocrates

  Food, Yoga, Health

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

  Sally Edwards

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

  Robert Redford

  Food, Cooking, Healthy

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Dieting

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• Just because you take gluten out of something doesn't make it a health food.

  Chris Mohr

  Gluten

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• There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

  Mark Twain

  Food, People, Gone

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3582, GENERAL PRESS

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  The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Attributed in "Einstein: The Life and Times" by Ronald W. Clark, (p. 737), 1971.

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Fitness

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