Some excellent quotes here.I especially like Mark Twain's, hence the You Tube clip and additional information.
Some of these quotes are tongue-in-check, while others are deeply
serious. Many of them show a historical view of how we should treat our
body, and how we should eat. I hope you find them as fun and
inspirational as I did. Check out this collection of inspirational quotes on gardening as well.
1. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
2. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates
― Hippocrates
3. “And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered
eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order
of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are
hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your
stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are
suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it
to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your
life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you
eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”
― Portia de Rossi, "Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain"
― Portia de Rossi, "Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain"
4. "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 (an American physician and cardiologist)
5. To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
― Buddha
6. “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
― Norman Cousins, "Anatomy of an Illness"
― Norman Cousins, "Anatomy of an Illness"
7. “1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”
― Mark Bittman, "Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes"
― Mark Bittman, "Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes"
8. “It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
― Margaret Mead
― Margaret Mead
9. “We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a
national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health
shall be removed; that the health of all its citizens deserves the help
of all the nation.”
― Harry S. Truman
― Harry S. Truman
10. “Eating crappy food isn't a reward — it's a punishment.”
― Drew Carey
― Drew Carey
11. “The first wealth is health.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”
― Morgan Spurlock, "Don't Eat This Book"
― Morgan Spurlock, "Don't Eat This Book"
13. “If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.”
― Sandra Byrd, "Bon Appetit"
― Sandra Byrd, "Bon Appetit"
14. “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
― Maimonides
― Maimonides
15. “About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.”
― Larry McCleary, "Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly: Experience Dynamic Weight Loss with the Brain-Belly Connection"
― Larry McCleary, "Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly: Experience Dynamic Weight Loss with the Brain-Belly Connection"
16. “In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and
balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes
here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no
Never.”
― Ellie Krieger, "The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life"
― Ellie Krieger, "The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life"
17. “Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned
with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed
over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.”
― Lynne Rossetto Kasper
― Lynne Rossetto Kasper
18. “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain