Meryl Streep Quotes

So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.

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

I like flavor - I could never stick to any diet that was steamed vegetables and low-fat chicken breast.

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.

Health requires healthy food.

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

I never count calories, but I eat so well.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

High-quality food is better for your health.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

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

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.

There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

There's no reason that we need to be counting things and adding things up in order to sit down and eat a meal. I enjoy eating so much; I don't want to do match every time I eat. I guarantee you, maybe your diet soda has no calories, but it's still poison. We have to think about what are we putting in our mouths.

I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

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

Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

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.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.