Lauren Alaina Quotes

Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.

It's not like you have two sets of vocal cords. You only have one, and if you exhaust it from talking, then you're also affecting your singing.

While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat... I just can't do it.

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

No fruit. No veggie.

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

I eat next to nothing.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

I never starved myself.

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

Overeating is the source of all disease.

The misery of the people here is very great, the beggars innumerable and increasing everyday…One half of the people in Ireland eat neither bread nor flesh for one half of the year, nor wear Shoes or Stockings; your Hogs in England and Essex Calves lie and live better than they.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

I get really mean or emotional if I don't have food in my system.

The consequences of poor nutrition and a lack of exercise are serious.