Food as Medicine Quotes

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

I believe that 'Food is a giver.' It gives you nutrition, health, and at times can give you recognition, like it did in my case, and you got to treat it with that kind of respect.

As an automobile needs premium fuel to operate well, our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health. Packaged food creates dis-ease. There’s no nourishment in it. The body can only handle it for so long. Then, when you do have a problem, you usually take an over-the-counter or prescription drug. This is another form of poison.

I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

I believe eating is a form of medicine, a reasoned way of giving your body and mind what it needs.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.

I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

I could never just look at a meal as a time to refuel. For me it's an opportunity to accomplish something. To connect, to teach, to share values.

When my mother was dying, I cooked for her. One of the things I realised was that the smell and look of the food was key. I concentrated on how it looked on the plate. Even if the amount was small, it gave her a nourishment of a different kind.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?