Nutrition Sayings and Quotes

A healthy lifestyle has become a major priority in the quest for meaningful living and, as all the experts tell us, nutrition is its anchor. Whether it's good food, health food, or diet food, what we eat has inspired some wise, funny, and informative quotes that are perfect for sharing with your next nutritious (or totally unhealthy!) meal.

Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make yourself whole again. Farnoosh Brock
Training is bad for you! Training followed by rest and proper nutrition is good for you and will make you better prepared for the event you are training for. Graeme Obree
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't. Ina May Gaskin
The future of nutrition is found in the ocean. Jacques Yves Cousteau
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. Jesse Owens
Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life. Joel Fuhrman
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
A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It’s the most important solution. John Mackey
You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition. John Robbins
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet, but one of the most vital. Julia Child
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces—just good food from fresh ingredients. Julia Child
You can't eat, that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. Kenneth Oppel
The groundwork of all happiness is health. Leigh Hunt
Let nothing that can be treated by diet be treated by any other means. Maimonides
Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience. Marc David
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
Life is not living, but living in health. Martial
It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician. Meryl Streep
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 (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer? Stay away from these. Michael Pollan
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all of those things when we eat well. Michael Pollan
Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited. Michael Tierra
The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, Which means vegetables and fruits. Misty May-Treanor
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment. Paul D. Boyer
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. Richard Leakey
Success is the sum of small efforts—repeated day-in and day-out. Robert Collier
A healthy outside starts from the inside. Robert Urich
The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task. Roger Williams
Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and the right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever. Subodh Gupta
First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. T. Colin Campbell
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