John Mackey Quotes

When I started out, nutrition wasn't a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I'm getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

I really believe that people don't have to eat healthy; they just have to know what they are eating, and then they'll eat better. That is really the movement we are behind.

I mean, I eat really healthily.

I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to pique their interest in nutrition is to involve them more in the cooking process. They not only will learn to cook for themselves, but also develop a lifetime of healthy habits.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

My health is important, so I learn everything I can about nutrition.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

I normally don't eat junk food.

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.

I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.

What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway.

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

I don't know where I got this size. Good nutrition, I guess.

I've always wanted to eat super healthy.