Eric Schlosser Quotes

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

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

As we confront the child obesity crisis, advergames that promote unhealthy foods to kids are a real cause for concern.

Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

Kids will eat anything, won't they?

It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.

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.

Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.

You know why kids don't eat fruits? Because fruits don't have any mascots. Every sugary cereal has a bear or a rabbit going, 'Kid! Eat it! Eat it, eat it, eat it!' You're a kid, you're like, 'I got to get that cereal.'

As a kid, I was never into sweets, and I never really drank.

When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids.

Very few parents give out healthy lunchboxes due to pressure from their children.

It's an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions - particularly when they are too often presented with an a la carte lunch room choice of french fries or yogurt.

I love that when I give my 4-year-old a cupcake, she takes a few licks of the frosting and takes a bite, but she has yet to finish a whole cupcake. She gets so excited about cake, but she never eats all of it. She would rather have a plate of fruit. I hope that sticks.

I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.

I don't really eat fried food. It's definitely a no go for me.

I was a very fat baby.

You don't want to eat haute cuisine all the time; it's not healthy.

I try to be semi-healthy, but I've got into a really bad routine of never food shopping. My fridge is always bare!

When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.

I'm a healthy eater, but I don't consider Chick-fil-A fast food.