Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

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

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.

When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

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.

Snoop Dogg eats terrible. That's another reason I had to leave him. I would have been dead of a heart attack. He literally eats at 7-11. That's where he does his grocery shopping or it's Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles, or it's Denny's delivery. There's not a piece of salad or vegetable within two miles of this dude.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

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.

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food.

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

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.

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

The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!

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.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.