Some 690,000 Americans will die this year eating the Standard American Diet. About $1.9 Trillion of our annual $3.7 Trillion healthcare spend is directly attributable to our poor diet. — Dan Buettner
A century ago, most of today's processed foods didn't even exist. Now they are more than half of the American diet. We weren't designed for this. — Will Bulsiewicz
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup. — Henry James
Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! — Prince
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease. — Joel Fuhrman
We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing — David Wolfe
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger
Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. — Fran Lebowitz
Do you know how much of the food you eat is ultra-processed? Here in the UK, UPF makes up 60% of the average diet. — Rangan Chatterjee
The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes. — T. Colin Campbell
A typical adult American male in 1900 had a healthy BMI of about 23, but since then BMI has steadily increased, albeit with a slight dip after World War II. — Daniel Lieberman
Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat. — Caldwell Esselstyn
American Food Quotes
Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war? — Chief Powhatan
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food — Edna Lewis
Thirty-five percent of Americans … are not making enough money to pay for basic human needs, and that means food, transportation and housing. and that means those Americans are sitting on the precipice of a cliff, that they're inches away from, or on top of, becoming homeless. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. — Fredric Jameson
If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don't need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food. — Dmitry Medvedev
"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association. — Charles Bernhard Heyd
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. — Christopher Dodd
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby. — Marion Nestle
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A. J. Liebling
Healthy Diet Quotes
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. — Philip Wollen
Eating a low-carb, high-fat diet can help support healthy blood sugar levels and weight management. — Steven Gundry
The best diet is one you don't realise you're following. — Chris Williamson
Healthy fats are not the enemy, they are an essential part of a balanced diet. — Steven Gundry
A healthy diet is the foundation of good health, but it’s not the only piece of the puzzle. —
Eating a diet rich in whole, nutrient-dense foods can help support healthy aging and longevity. — Steven Gundry
The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels. — Joel Fuhrman
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples. — Rigoberta Menchu
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Clark Gable
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary. — H. Rap Brown
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from. — Romare Bearden
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes
Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans — Ben Shapiro
I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak! — Sophie Kinsella
I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.' — Mazie Hirono
American Way Of Life Quotes
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life. — Eric Hoffer
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. — Pearl S. Buck
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child. — Coretta Scott King
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form. — Chester Himes
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley
It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . . — Lou Dobbs
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. — Ron Paul
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless. — Lydia Lunch
Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way. — Gary North
Unhealthy Food Quotes
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. — Muhammad Yunus
Food is not reward... you do not 'earn.' Training should not be punishment. Both should be enjoyable. If not, you have an unhealthy mindset. — Layne Norton
Healthy gut bacteria create a craving for healthy foods, while pathogenic bacteria create a craving for unhealthy foods. Change your microbes and you change your cravings. Change your cravings and you change your life. — Rich Roll
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. — Joan Dye Gussow
Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die. — Seohyun
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. — Socrates
I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food. — Bryce Dallas Howard
If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. — Subodh Gupta
If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. — Subodh Gupta
Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy. — Subodh Gupta
Balanced Diet Quotes
It's important to keep a balanced diet, but I'm not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I'm going to enjoy that cheeseburger. — Heidi Klum
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. — Dean Ornish
I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self. — Hannah Bronfman
A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands. — Paula Deen
I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that, I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food, but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet. — Genelia D'Souza
Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand — Ian Healy
Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited. — Michael Tierra
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum! — Abraham Lincoln
What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news. — Marion Nestle
Diet Quotes
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. — George Bernard Shaw
Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme. — Caldwell Esselstyn
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet. — Philo Farnsworth
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne
Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it. — Jamie Oliver
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. — Jackie Gleason
This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke? — John Daly
American Education Quotes
The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves. — Nikita Khrushchev
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work. — Jaime Escalante
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams
I went to Yale to earn a law degree. But that first year at Yale taught me most of all that I didn't know how the world of the American elite works. — James David Vance
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? — Diane Ravitch
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers — James Heckman
In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success. — Walter E. Williams
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. — Ruben Hinojosa
It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity. — Bill Maher
American Business Quotes
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. — Ronald Reagan
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. — Clara Barton
The war against Russia has been lost, it has been lost for months. People need to understand there was a deliberate coup. Americans working closely with the CIA systematically installed a new government composed of people that would do business with us. — Douglas Macgregor
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate. — John M. McHugh
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. — Simon Cowell
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. — Bill Rancic
The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. — Paul Gillmor
Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker. — Hal Sparks
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. — Warren Buffett
American Life Quotes
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime. — Angela Davis
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again. — Crazy Horse
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you. — Geronimo
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. — Whitney M. Young
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. — Chief Seattle
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. — Joseph McCarthy
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. — Cat Cora
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. — Lois Capps
The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America. — Mireille Guiliano
The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable. — Nathan Pritikin
Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat. — Mark Bittman
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. — Jack LaLanne
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women. — Tipper Gore
Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot. — Joel Fuhrman
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet. — Jerry Brown
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet. — Michael Pollan
As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again. — Andrew Weil
in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. — Camille Paglia
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men. — Andrew Weil
I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid. — Tom Brady
Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy. — Sharon Gannon
Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural. — Homaro Cantu
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem. — Michael Pollan
Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment. — Bill Maher
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry. — Walden Bello
When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there. — Gwyneth Paltrow
... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer. — Charles H. Percy
Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality. — Bartlett Sher
I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending. — Michele Bachmann
I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country. — Mark Bittman
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like. — Frank Zappa
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