Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.

I won't eat anything green.

To keep my son healthy, I throw secret veggies into his favorite dishes.

All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat porridge. With fussy kids, the best thing to do is use what they do like and work around it.

It takes several doses of any veg before children like it, but once they do they'll like it for life. You wouldn't give up on a child who didn't want to learn to read. Learning to eat is every bit as important.

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

I always did the cooking at home, and we always tried for balance. We've been vigilant about how and what our kids eat. For example, my son would just as soon go for the grapes as he would the chips... and the chips are baked.

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

I think health is the outcome of eating well.