Quotes about Diet

Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. If the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress, and inability to put forth mental effort.

We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.

Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!

All diets are wholesome. Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. Whether the food be fine or coarse it will taste good and it will nourish if a watch be kept upon the appetite and a little starvation introduced every time it weakens.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

Especially as pro athletes, at the highest level, what we put into our bodies plays a huge part in our performance.

So I try to follow the Paleo diet, no processed foods - a lot of lean meats, veggies and fruits.