Ella Woodward Quotes

I've never been on a fad diet.

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

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

The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

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.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

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

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

I can live without fast food.

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 eat whatever I want, junk food included.

I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

Unhealthy meals don't just cause internal damage decades down the road, but right here and now, within hours of going into your mouth.

In order to reduce the consumption of unhealthy foods, we should impose large snack taxes -- in the range of 5 to 10 percent

I truly believe that everything I need to flourish nutritionally is found in nature and that some stuff just shouldn't be messed with, especially the food I'm putting in my body.

Anything out of a packet is off-limits. Copyright that: the No Packet Diet. I just prefer fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and fresh protein.

I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.

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.

There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.

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

There's not a single diet I haven't been on.