Prodigy Quotes

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

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.

When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right.

I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.

I hate junk food. It depresses me.

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.

I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.