Aisha Tyler Quotes

At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

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

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.

Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

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

Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

I can't get my medicine.

The second you go back to eating right, you're going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!

The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

My cholera's acting up again.

Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.