Healthy Food Quotes

• To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fitness, Art, Food

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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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• 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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• 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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  Health is the greatest of human blessings.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Blessing, Illness

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

  Hippocrates

  Food, Yoga, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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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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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

  Mark Halperin

  Sleep, Exercise, Luxury

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• The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's
  about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us.
  It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better
  America.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Wall, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jan 07, 2014

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• If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.

  Subodh Gupta

  Healthy, Weight, Eating

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• I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers.

  Lauren Conrad

  Healthy, Burgers, Eating

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• In terms of kids not liking the food, I am shocked. I know that it's not true. I know that when kids are not educated about healthy food, they have a resistance to it. The resistance comes, again, from the fast-food culture.

  Alice Waters

  Kids, Healthy, Culture

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity.

  Lori Silverbush

  Unhealthy Food, Obesity, Lows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

  Tim Matheson

  Art, Opportunity, Cooking

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

  Jared Polis

  Priorities, Unhealthy Food, Selling

  "Rep. Polis gets crusty about pizza" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 15, 202.

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• I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!

  Billy Gardell

  Vegas, Healthy, Trying

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• I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Healthy, Shapes, Clean

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• I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

  Boris Johnson

  Sweet, School, Healthy

  "Boris in row over Jamie remarks". news.bbc.co.uk. October 3, 2006.

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