Julia Sawalha Quotes

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

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.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.

I'm not a greasy food guy. I don't eat like that.

I've seen so many kids walking to school with these massive high energy drinks, and they are nine or 10. I'm like, 'What?' It was a treat for me. It is still a treat for my family.

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

I normally don't eat junk food.

I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

I go to McDonald's every day. But I don't eat much.

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

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.

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.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

I'm not into fad diets; I'm not into depriving. I like fast food, and I like chocolate.

Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that!

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.