Laurie David Quotes

I used to love eating canned fruit. Once I learned how to read a food label, I learned that canned fruit is arguably the least healthy form of fruit consumption.

Just because it says 'zero calories' or 'sugar free' or 'fat free' doesn't mean it actually is good for you. It's a way to get you. Just make sure that you know. We think that we can put stuff in our body. Just know how it affects you.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

For the most part, I try to stay away from high fructose corn syrup and citric acid.

You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.

Processed sugar - there's nothing good about it. It's a huge, huge industry, and it's poison.

It's one thing to have ice cream once in a while with your family, and quite another to eat foods on a regular basis that you don't even know are full of sugar.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Sugar is the new tobacco.

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

Honey isn't really that good for you.

It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps - and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.

Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products.

Junk food was never allowed at home, and personally too, there is no love for aerated drinks.

We should all know what we are putting into our body.

Cutting sugar made the most difference to my body. It's the devil. It's addictive, and it's in so many things you wouldn't even think of. Sugar is put in sauces, breads, and yoghurts. It's not always obvious, but so many things are packed in sugar.