139 Junk Food Quotes

Following is our list of junk food quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about eating junk food.

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Famous Junk Food Quotes

There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body. — Jeanette Jenkins

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

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. — Eric Schlosser

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise. — Dharma Mittra

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu. — Eric Schlosser

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

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them. — Jocko Willink

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that. — Gordon Ramsay

Food makes my mind sluggish. — Miles Davis

One piece of food while hungry equals a big box of food while full. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup. — Henry James

Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers. — Prince

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. — Neal Barnard

My idea of fast food is a mallard. - Ted Nugent

My idea of fast food is a mallard. — Ted Nugent

Short Junk Food Quotes

  • The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial. — Mike Birbiglia
  • To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. — George Carlin
  • Food is an important part of a balanced diet. — Fran Lebowitz
  • Hamburger bad fries bad, coca-cola bad….There I said it. Drink your water people. — Tony Horton
  • Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. — Kate Moss
  • Food has become entertainment and a status symbol. — Rangan Chatterjee
  • We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing — David Wolfe
  • Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. — Robert Orben
  • Food simply isn't important to me. — Alice Paul
  • A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands. — Paula Deen

Junk Food Image Quotes

Junk food quote Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.

Don't Eat Junk Food Quotes

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do. — Besse Cooper

There are so many health nuts out there who eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible. Then there are other people who exercise like a son-of-a-gun but eat a lot of junk... Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. — Peace Pilgrim

Junk food quote Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for your, and the things they claim are junk.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for your, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that. — Marion Nestle

I normally don't eat junk food. — Martin Yan

I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices. — Michelle Obama

Junk food quote You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.
You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food. — Marianne Williamson

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of. — Peace Pilgrim

I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food. — Besse Cooper

Eating Junk Food Quotes

Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as processed carbs. They’re loaded with sugar and other additives. The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive we feel. The more dead foods we eat...well, you get the idea. — Tony Horton

BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods. — Marion Nestle

Eat for nutrition and food value. Emphasize natural foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate junk entirely. — Vince Gironda

Junk food quote The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.

American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth? — Gerald Celente

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated. — Avril Lavigne

Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods. — Marion Nestle

If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things. — Mark Bittman

I eat whatever I want, junk food included. — Vanessa Marcil

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV. — Anita Baker

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. — Michael Pollan

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

Fast Food Quotes

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken - Colonel Sanders

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken — Colonel Sanders

Man shall not live by bread alone. - Matthew McConaughey

Man shall not live by bread alone. — Matthew McConaughey

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. — Eric Schlosser

Hell is other people at breakfast. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people at breakfast. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish — Jamie Oliver

If it’s work, do it fast. If it’s food, eat it little by little. — Filipino Proverbs

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. — Nigella Lawson

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. — Andrew Weil

Eating Fast Food Quotes

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. — Joel Salatin

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is. — Sayings

Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion. — Demetri Martin

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food. — Willie Aames

I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it? — Sayings

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. — Ray Kroc

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine. — Carol Leifer

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. — Michael Pollan

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. — Lloyd Kaufman

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn. — Morgan Spurlock

Bad Food Quotes

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad. — Vasily Chuikov

Diets that are high in sugar and processed foods are bad for our microbes, and by extension for our health, and diets that are high in vegetables and fruits are good for both. — Tim Spector

Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two. — Alain Ducasse

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals — Chrissie Hynde

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you. — Jack LaLanne

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. — Craig Claiborne

Don’t spurn cold rice; hunger helps you eat even food that has gone bad. — Vietnamese Proverbs

The physical and mental impairments caused by one night of bad sleep dwarf those caused by an equivalent absence of food or exercise. — Matthew Walker

Healthy Food Quotes

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. - Maimonides

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides

Health is the greatest of human blessings. — Hippocrates

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin

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

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. — Johnny Carson

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. — Leo Tolstoy

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison — Ann Wigmore

People Writing About Junk Food

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Read quotes by Eric Schlosser

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More Junk Food Quotes

Remember, this is not all or nothing. But it is about crowding out the junk with healthy food that nourishes your body and helps you to thrive. — Will Bulsiewicz

Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health. — Rodney A. Smolla

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas. — Toni Morrison

I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I have to die at fifty? My Dad ate all the junk food, he wouldn't exercise - how can you tell your Dad anything? We know about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape - it's ridiculous! — Jack LaLanne

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food. — Jim Rohn

Staying away from junk food and the pops-it's something that, for me, is harder than doing the actual workouts. It's so easy to get off-track. Like when you're out with your buddies and they're stopping at McDonald's. You can't have a Big Mac with them. — Steven Stamkos

The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are healthier ways that you can put this into your life. And the three big ones are intimacy ... physical activity ... and the third thing is music. — Neal Barnard

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams. — Robert J. Shiller

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles. — Peter J. Carroll

The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health. — Bill Walton

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. — Jamie Oliver

Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill. — Don Williams

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food. — Sue Grafton

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life. — Dallin H. Oaks

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food. — William H. Macy

As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists." — Bobby Jindal

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

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. — Henry Rollins

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food. — Raj Patel

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago. — Mark Bittman

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