Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Nyad

There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

Norman Finkelstein

Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread?

It's not so much that the foods are bad, it's just a lack of knowledge about how many calories are in the foods we eat.

Chris Johnson

It's not only the calories that are killing us, it's the other stuff that goes with it.

Dennis Quaid

For many years I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had and how much exercise I'd have to do.

People think there is nothing that they can do, that obesity is inevitable. This is not rocket science: It's all about how many calories you're putting in yourself, and how many are getting out. We need to go back to the basics.

Joel Fuhrman

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

Amy Roberts

Especially with kids we find that what's causing their obesity is more what they're drinking than what they're eating. They drink fruit juices because they think it's healthy and then sodas on top of that. I've seen some kids who were drinking up to 1,000 calories a day with just fruit juice, sports drinks and cola.

Susan Mann

You can't control your calories as much when you eat out. Don't super size.

At most, you're looking at 300 calories and that's not really much for lunch, so you can eat it and an hour later you're gnawing the leg off your chair.

There's nothing worse than to be watching your calories and exercising, but the scale just doesn't budge, ... You just feel like, 'My efforts are for naught.' That's when people tend to give up.

too many calories in and too few calories out.

Alicia Silverstone

I never count calories, but I eat so well.

New mothers are extraordinarily busy, but that doesn't necessarily translate into calories burned. And even if you're breast-feeding, you only need about 200 more calories per day than you required during pregnancy.

Four hundred calories at a time every four hours has been very difficult to do at work.

John Ridley

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

Some come back with low numbers and they really have to watch the calories because of a slow metabolism.

Maybe if people think they have this terrific quality, then they'll forget about the calories and the fat,

Donna Shalala

Most of the calories in a healthy diet should come from fruits, vegetables and grain products. That recommendation makes it even more critical for government and industry to work together to ensure that fresh produce is wholesome and safe.

Joel Fuhrman

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

Joel Fuhrman

The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

Tristram Stuart

In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.

Joel Fuhrman

We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.

We've gotten away from preparing foods at home. We are eating foods that are much higher in fat and calories and larger portion sizes. We've gotten away from physical activity.

Martha Beck

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

If you have to cut calories why not start with sugar water?

Calorie-wise, you're not saving anything with these drinks. You could eat a big salad for a lot fewer calories and won't be as hungry as a result.

The calories should come from a variety of different food groups, not just one or two groups.

These foods are high in calories and low in nutrients.

Dean Ornish

If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.

The main purpose of a liquid diet is weight loss. Most liquid diets are low in calories for rapid weight loss but they are not for everyone.

Debi Mazar

Life is just too short to count calories forever!

Jay Wright

We need to get him on his feet and just get calories in him, because he's lost so much weight. I think this week will be really good for him. ... He has a chance of being 100 percent by Sunday.