#nutrition

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#better #better job #child #dads #districts

In a review of 206 human-population studies raw vegetable consumption showed the strongest protective effect against cancer of any beneficial food. However, fewer than one in a hundred Americans consumes enough calories from vegetation to ensure this defense. ↗

— Joel Fuhrman

#greens #nutrition #raw #salad #food

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#best #best way #carbon #cut #emissions

A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#healthily #helps #home #me #nutritionist

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#effectiveness #i #i am #nutritional #skeptical

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #food-science #nutrition #social-sciences #diet

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits. ↗

— T. Colin Campbell

#habits #health #nutrition #diet

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. ↗

— Ann Wigmore

#life #medicine #nutrition #food

Food, like your money, should be working for you! ↗

— Rita Deattrea Beckford M.D.

#health #nutrition #weight-loss #diet

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#adequate #basic #condition #countries #developing