Diet quotes

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◆ The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

- Mark Twain100

◆ This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

- Tom Colicchio100

◆ I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

- Cat Cora99

◆ Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

- Jim Davis99

◆ I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

- Lara Stone99

◆ If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

- Jack LaLanne99

◆ The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

- Paula Deen99

◆ I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

- Alanis Morissette99

◆ I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

- Adele99

◆ Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

- Tony Robbins99

◆ Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

- Jennifer Aniston99

◆ The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

- Jackie Gleason99

◆ The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

- Mark Hyman99

◆ In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

- Maimonides99