quotes to ponder

I have always loved quotes. I have numerous quote books around my house, and I can dwell on quotes for hours. Sometimes a simple quote can set my mind in the right direction and put things in perspective. Here are a few of my favorite food related quotes. Enjoy! ~

“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.”  ~Meryl Streep

“Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise.”  ~Mike Adams

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." -Brillat-Savarin

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. ~St Frances de Sales

“Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”  ~Edward Stanley

One should eat to live, not live to eat" -Benjamin Franklin

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”  ~Thomas Edison

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”  ~John F. Kennedy

“Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy”  ~Author Unknown

“True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington”  ~Anonymous

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”  ~Mark Twain

Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.  ~Unknown

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”  ~William Londen

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”  ~Spanish Proverb

“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.”  ~Jay Leno

“Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food.. stay away from these”  ~Michael Pollan

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”  ~Doug Larson

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”  ~B.K.S. Iyengar

“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it”  ~Common sense

“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”  ~Author Unknown

“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”  ~Josh Billings

“Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”  ~Denis Waitley

“From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.”  ~Catalan Proverb

“Mainstream medicine would be way different if they focused on prevention even half as much as they focused on intervention…”  ~Anonymous

“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.”  ~William Shakespeare

If diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.
If diet is correct, medicine is of no need.~ Ancient Ayurvedic proverb

"It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet."
— Margaret Mead

"Most people work hard and spend their health trying to achieve wealth. Then they retire and spend their wealth trying to get back their health." -Kevin Gianni