Jim Cantalupo Quotes

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

The things that are going to actually help you or me stay healthy are not necessarily the things that happen inside a doctor's office. They're the things that allow us to choose healthy lifestyles on a day-by-day basis.

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time.

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years.

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body.

I believe that you should move and eat right.