Steven Gundry Quotes

Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.

You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!

They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.

If you can eat five fruits and vegetables a day, that alone can totally change your diet.

Nobody ever got fat eating vegetables.

For me, I don't need to juice to make weight for my fights. I just do it for the health benefits - to keep my body healthy and to get my greens in me.

The more fruit I removed from an individual's diet, the healthier he or she became and the more his or her cholesterol numbers and markers for kidney function improved.

I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew becoming a vegetarian was the quickest way to lose it. I just wasn't sure if I could do it.

I eat a lot of peanut butter and drink a lot of whole milk.

I like some vegetables.

Freak diets I don't think work. It's control.

I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.

I always knew I was going to lose weight.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; this is where most people will make their first big mistake if they're trying to lose weight.

I have never been on a fad diet. I have always worked out and I know my balance.

I just eat half portions, do cardio every day.

My diet consists of a lot of salads - I liberally include a lot of fruits and vegetables in every meal.

I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.

Lentils, beans, and other legumes, such as chickpeas, are all excellent sources of fiber.