Jack LaLanne Quotes

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

I was raised on pork... steak, chicken, everything... And everyone in my family pretty much of the older generation has diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer.

I think you need a little fat in your diet.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.

I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too.

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry.