These Nutrition quotes will inspire you. Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It includes ingestion, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism, and excretion.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging nutrition quotes, nutrition sayings, and nutrition proverbs.
Inspirational Nutrition Quotes
- “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” ~ Jack LaLanne
- “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.” ~ Roger Williams
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“Eat for nutrition and food value. Emphasize natural foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate junk entirely.” ~ Vince Gironda
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.” ~ Jack LaLanne, Nutrition quotes exercise
- “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” ~ Hippocrates
- “Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.” ~ Michael Pollan
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“Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.” ~ Linus Pauling
- “Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!” ~ Bernard Jensen
- “Rule of thumb: Eat for what you’re going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don’t take in more than you’re willing to burn off.” ~ Lee Haney
- “Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited.” ~ Michael Tierra
- “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
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“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow’s udder.” ~ Ingrid Newkirk
- “The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison” ~ Ann Wigmore
- “Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.” ~ Narayan
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“The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.” ~ Aristotle
- “The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.” ~ Theodor Schwann
- “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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, Nutrition quotes likings
- “Remember that nutrition is 90%; exercise is 10%.” ~ Vince Gironda
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“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.” ~ Maimonides
- “I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.” ~ Cat Cora
- “When in doubt, use nutrition first.” ~ Roger Williams
- “You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” ~ Linus Pauling
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“Bodybuilding is 80% nutrition!” ~ Vince Gironda
- “The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.” ~ Wendell Berry
- “Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.” ~ Joel Fuhrman, Nutrition quotes medicines
- “[Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It’s not just about working hard and being physical. It’s about being smart and mindful of what’s going in and out of our bodies.” ~ Kerri Walsh
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“First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition–isn’t.” ~ T. Colin Campbell
- “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
- “For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.” ~ Carl Pfeiffer
- “It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.” ~ Meryl Streep
- “These small things – nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness – are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.” ~ T. Colin Campbell
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“The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.” ~ Peter Thiel
- “If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.” ~ Abram Hoffer
- “The best doctor gives the least medicines.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” ~ Tom Stoppard
- “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.” ~ Catherine Bertini
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“My nutrition choices are for my health, not to lose weight.” ~ Suzanne Whang
- “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Nutrition trumps genes.” ~ T. Colin Campbell
- “True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise.” ~ David Wolfe
- “Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system.” ~ Maya Tiwari
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“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.” ~ Larry Wall
- “Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “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
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“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do. I start every day with a protein shake, with my vanilla Almond Breeze, and my kids start their day the same way as well. [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It’s not just about working hard and being physical. It’s about being smart and mindful of what’s going in and out of our bodies. And also taking the time to enjoy things, and to appreciate the process.” ~ Kerri Walsh
- “I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Life is a tragedy of nutrition” ~ Arnold Ehret
- “I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich that, far from strengthening the constitution, it disturbs and enfeebles it. Stage beginners are similar to those children totally spoiled by the blind affection of their parents.” ~ Jean-Georges Noverre
- “The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.” ~ Alexis Carrel
- “A balanced life is like a three-legged stool. Each leg – nutrition, fitness and wellness- is necessary and supports the other.” ~ Ellie Krieger, Nutrition quotes wellness
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“The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer.” ~ Suzanne Somers
- “Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.” ~ Craig Johnston
