Mark Hyman Quotes

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the people who grow it.

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health.

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating.

We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.

When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my children, I am not sure if what I am giving them is safe. Politics and pesticides are destroying our food culture.

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.