Diet - Quotes & Sayings

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Bethenny Frankel

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

Lara Stone

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

Drew Carey

I see the most change in my body through exercise. They say diet determines your weight, and exercise determines your shape - I find that to be a pretty true statement. When I'm doing a lot of boxing, my hamstrings are really strong and my biceps. When I'm doing a lot of Pilates, I find that my core is really lean and my inner thighs.

Hannah Bronfman

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

Jack LaLanne

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels... try it!

Ariana Grande

I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

Victoria Pendleton

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

Bobby Flay

If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

Misty May-Treanor

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

George Wallace

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Cameron Diaz

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

Bill Murray

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.

Penelope Cruz

My diet is high on protein, which keeps me energised and fresh.

Karan Patel

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

Henry Cavill

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

Matt Cartwright

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

John Mackey

I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.

Sullivan Stapleton

I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

Valerie Bertinelli

The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.

John Gokongwei

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

Thandie Newton

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

Adrian Peterson

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Dolly Parton

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

Tom Colicchio

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Mireille Guiliano

I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.

Kelly Clarkson

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

Louis C. K.

Pasta is my superfood! Balance and moderation are the basis for my diet, though, so I also make sure to incorporate plenty of protein, fruits, and veggies throughout the day.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My life is not about deprivation; I don't diet or slave away in a gym. What I do is eat clean, nutritious, real food. I enjoy delicious meals with healthy fats, I eat until I am full and satisfied, and I remain thin.

Suzanne Somers

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Maimonides

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

Frederick Banting

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

Jim Harrison

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

Chuck Norris

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Kristen Bell

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

Katie Taylor

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

Gael Garcia Bernal

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Robert Atkins

In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a whole-foods, plant-based diet low in refined carbohydrates.

Dean Ornish

I went on a Hot Pocket diet where I ate two Hot Pockets every four hours. I only had the pepperoni pizza flavour. I didn't go anywhere near the cheeseburger macaroni.

Jason Segel

I've always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there's bound to be a report that comes out that says, 'Broccoli actually... ' So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.

Christie Brinkley

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Jerry Brown

If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

Laila Ali

I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

Stephen Furst

Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice.

Kim Shaw

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

Henry Rollins

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Miranda Lambert

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Michael Greger