Kris Carr Quotes

When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.

If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion.

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Whenever I feel like having some sort of comfort food, I'll have some of it but won't have tons of it.

School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.

Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income - raising minimum wage?

I'm pretty healthy, so I eat a lot of vegetables and fish. But I'm a huge sweets fan. It's really bad. I love ice cream and cookies and cake and all that stuff. So on the weekends, I will definitely indulge.

I'm passionate about cooking. I'm passionate about healthy eating. I'm passionate about inspiring other women.

One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

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

Use spices for flavor in food rather than adding a bunch of oils, fats, or sauces.

I have a healthy relationship with food. My problem is, as a comic, I eat dinner late. But I'll have a smoothie for breakfast every morning, and I keep it pretty low-carb and healthy during the day. At night, I'll have a basic protein, quinoa, and vegetables.

I stick with all anti-inflammatory foods: tons of veggies, eggs, chicken, and fish. I will have some red meat, but only every now and then.

The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

I have the biggest sweet tooth of anybody.

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad.

It would be nice if I had a faster metabolism, because I love food.

I have developed recipes that are diabetes-friendly for my restaurant menus.