Marilu Henner Quotes

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

That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

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.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

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

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

I think it's good to eat a bit of everything, but when you eat too much junk food, it's bad for you and for your brain. You don't understand why, but you feel sad. It's because of the junk food!

What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.

We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

I get snappy if I don't eat.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.