189 Nutrition Quotes

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Famous Nutrition Quotes

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine! — Bernard Jensen

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

Good nutrition is not just about what you eat, but also about what you absorb. — Eric Berg

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. — Fran Lebowitz

Life is a tragedy of nutrition — Arnold Ehret

The body needs nutrients in refined, usable forms — Gary Brecka

When in doubt, use nutrition first. - Sayings

When in doubt, use nutrition first. — Sayings

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. — Ann Veneman

First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. — T. Colin Campbell

The key to good health is to focus on nourishing your body with whole, nutrient-dense foods. — Steven Gundry

The key to optimal health is to focus on nourishing your body rather than depriving it. — Eric Berg

The key to vibrant health is to nourish your body with whole, nutrient-dense foods. — Eric Berg

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. — Linus Pauling

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Nutrition is not just about what we eat, it’s about how we eat, when we eat, and how our bodies process the food. — Rhonda Patrick

Short Nutrition Quotes

  • Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
  • Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates
  • 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
  • Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne
  • You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency. — Linus Pauling
  • Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
  • Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task. — Roger Williams
  • Grass-fed beef is a superior choice for optimal nutrition. — Steven Gundry

Nutrition Image Quotes

Nutrition quote Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.
Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.

Child Nutrition Quotes

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents. — Jamie Oliver

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress. — Tom Harkin

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth. — Barney Frank

Nutrition quote Nutrisystem helped me get my life back... I'm even a proud glam-ma!
Nutrisystem helped me get my life back... I'm even a proud glam-ma!

Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger. — Hector Elizondo

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. — Marian Wright Edelman

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible. — Josette Sheeran

Since the conventional belief about human embryology is that genes control the development of the fetus, the mother's role in her child's gestation is deemed to be not much more than providing nutrition, feeding her child. — Bruce H. Lipton

I believe everybody has a mission and my mission was to bring children in - that wanted to be in a body that was nutritionally balanced, meditative, emotionally stable, because I believe it has a lot to do with how the child develops. — James, son of Zebedee

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children? — Stephen Colbert

Diet And Nutrition Quotes

I think happiness is a skill, nutrition is a skill, diet is a skill, investing is a skill, self-awareness is a skill. And skills get built up over decades with feedback loops and you just have to constantly keep working on it. — Naval Ravikant

I can state with full confidence that an alkaline-promoting, whole-food plant-based diet is the most rapid recovery tool available to the athlete, a buffer against weight gain and lifestyle disease, as well as a crucial component in my success. — Rich Roll

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you're working out, you're going to feel good. — Jason Statham

The overarching principle of nutritional biochemistry is you have to be malleable, you have to be empirical, and you have to assume that, if it a diet or nutritional approach doesn't work and you've tried it correctly, that's okay—there's another approach. — Peter Attia

The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that’s all. — Samael Aun Weor

The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle. — Marion Nestle

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future. — Kent Conrad

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health. — William Osler

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach. — Hippocrates

Health And Nutrition Quotes

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison

Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer — Benjamin Spock

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

Optimal health is achieved through a balance of nutrition, exercise, and mindset. — Eric Berg

Our tactics in Medicine 3.0 fall into five broad domains: exercise, nutrition, sleep, emotional health, and exogenous molecules, meaning drugs, hormones, or supplements. — Peter Attia

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. — Benjamin Franklin

Exercise is the single biggest elixir for brain health. And it's amazing how much more powerful it appears to be than nutrition, even sleep. And those things are very important, but exercise is in a league of its own. — Peter Attia

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

When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add. — Naval Ravikant

The best doctor gives the least medicines. — Benjamin Franklin

Healthy Nutrition Quotes

For protein I am pretty simple, I like chicken, steak, and eggs. For carbs I love low fat popcorn. It has a lot of volume for very little calories and is very filling. It also has about 10g of fiber per bag! — Layne Norton

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. — Tom Stoppard

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

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

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. — Ernie J Zelinski

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front. — Tom Vilsack

Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited. — Michael Tierra

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards. — Michelle Obama

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice. — Sasha Cohen

Nutrition And Exercise Quotes

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

Manage distress tolerance and keep the window of well-being wide through exercise, sound sleep, good nutrition, time with family, and deep social connections. — Peter Attia

Those who begin to exercise regularly and replace white flour, sugar and devitalized foods with live, organic natural foods begin to feel better immediately. Exercise is king, nutrition is queen -- put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise. — David Wolfe

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

Exercise and good nutrition helped make me what I am today and are critical in allowing me stay on top of my game. — Chris Paul

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. — John Henry Newman

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. — Eric Thomas

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose. — Julius Erving

Proper Nutrition Quotes

Beauty comes from the inside. — Kathy Ireland

Training is bad for you! Training followed by rest and proper nutrition is good for you and will make you better prepared for the event you are training for. — Graeme Obree

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. — Paula Creamer

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. — Tom Vilsack

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience. — Daphne Oz

Always remember this...there is only ONE recipe for strength. A secret recipe that was handed down from Sandow to John Grimek to Paul Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to Bill Kazmaier to me. Now I'm giving you that magical recipe...hard work plus proper nutrition plus time equals strong. — Steve Pulcinella

Seventy percent of the kids that I see who are labeled learning disabled would not have been had they had proper prenatal nutrition. — Stephen Ritz

I have been dealing with those types of complicated things and my scholastic background, so I think that helps me - my nutrition and my understanding of the human body, and the processes for recovery and proper dietary restrictions. — Chris Algieri

The usage of proper salt is really just a small piece of education. However, I want people to really get the proper nutrition from food for them and their family. — Wolfgang Puck

Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique. — Jillian Michaels

Good Nutrition Quotes

It is incontrovertible that skipping meals while maintaining adequate nutrition is not only good for you but will make you live longer. — David Sinclair

We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food. — Marcus Samuelsson

If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back. — Shawn Ray

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition. — Jacob Moleschott

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. — Marvin Harris

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. — Joseph Addison

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature. — Richard Louv

Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition. — Fredrick Hatfield

To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise. — DeBarra Mayo

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness. — Kina Grannis

Healthy Food Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Healthy Diet Quotes

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. —

When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit. — Quentin Bryce

Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. — Mary Berry

Eating well and staying active is the necessary base to a clear complexion and a healthy body and mind. — Hannah Bronfman

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. — Julie Bishop

Eating Healthy Quotes

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. — David Steindl-Rast

We didn’t evolve to be healthy, but instead we were selected to have as many offspring as possible under diverse, challenging conditions. As a consequence, we never evolved to make rational choices about what to eat or how to exercise in conditions of abundance and comfort. — Daniel Lieberman

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula. — Richard Simmons

Eating healthy fats is essential for optimal brain function. — Steven Gundry

There’s rich people who wake up really early, and there are rich people who wake up really late. There’s rich people who eat really healthy, and there are rich people who eat unhealthy. So there’s no one-size fits all approach to success. — Alex Hormozi

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene. — Umar

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. - Joan Walsh Anglund

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett

Eating Well Quotes

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

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are. — Jaggi Vasudev

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. — Fernand Point

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. — Samuel Johnson

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. — Marie Antoinette

Eat well, laugh often, love a lot. — French Proverbs

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. — Martin Yan

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning. — Shaquille O'Neal

When eating chew well, think before speaking. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. - Althea Gibson

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. — Althea Gibson

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

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. — Barbara Johnson

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

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

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever. — Wallace Stegner

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More Nutrition Quotes

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece. — Kai Greene

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. — Amartya Sen

There’s a whole set of things we don’t even bother trying to teach. We don’t teach nutrition. We don’t teach cooking. We don’t teach how to be in happy, positive relationships. We don’t teach how to keep your body healthy and fit. We just say sports. We don’t teach happiness. We don’t teach meditation. — Naval Ravikant

Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite: Vigorous exercise actually is stimulating. It boosts your energy levels, invigorates your mind, and just feels good afterward. The hardest part, of course, is getting started. — Jack LaLanne

When the topic of food comes up in conversation with family, friends or casual acquaintances, it’s fascinating to hear the litany of rationalizations, knee-jerk defense mechanisms, self-limiting belief statements and general confusion or ignorance from otherwise intelligent folks when it comes to eating healthfully. But then again, Conventional Wisdom has often led even the best and brightest minds in nutritional science astray. — Mark Sisson

Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system. — Maya Tiwari

If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant

Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym. — Christie Brinkley

When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health and school attendance. Every woman and girl has the right to live in safety in her home and community. — Helen Clark

If I’m running a grade school curriculum for children, I would probably optimize happiness, nutrition, diet, exercise, How do you build good habits?, How do you break bad habits?, How do you have good relationships?, How do you find your spouse?, meditation, How do you build basic skills, not memorize lots of facts?, What kinds of books should you read? — Naval Ravikant

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. — Martial

They're called supplements for a reason--to be used sparingly, and never as a substitute for real food. My focus is always on meeting my protein needs through whole foods, and yours should be too. — Rich Roll

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

Paleo is bullshit, fasted cardio isn't superior to fed cardio, keto isn't superior for fat burning, & fasting isn't anabolic. You're welcome. — Layne Norton

My framework around nutrition is that there are three big levers you can always be pulling with food: dietary restriction, time restriction, and caloric restriction. — Peter Attia

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well. — Michael Pollan

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition, we all have unique needs and should listen to our bodies. — Steven Gundry

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