Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You are feeding people, but you are not really feeding people.

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

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.

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

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.

Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.

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

I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

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

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

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.

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.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

Eating well gives me a lot of my energy.

I eat like a child! Oh my God. It's terrible. My child eats way healthier than me! She loves the veggies. She doesn't like packaged sweets.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

You cannot out-train bad nutrition. It's impossible.

just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.

I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.

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

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.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables.

I don't have a very good diet.