David Kirsch Quotes

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

Junk food drags you down.

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

I eat crap.

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.

I eat a lot of pizza and really unhealthy food.

I am a junk food eater.

I literally never ate fruit or vegetables before. My diet instead revolved around ice cream, chocolate, peanut butter and jelly eaten with a spoon, pick-n-mix, and lots of cereal and pasta - I was a sugar monster.

I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.