Here’s a selection of my favourite nutrition quotes to keep you on the path to optimal health. It’s far too easy to get seduced by the latest diet and supplements but real food and solid nutrition principles will always provide the clearest route.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are our gardeners. – William Shakespeare
Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. – Joseph Raynauld Raymond
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – Jim Rohn
If it weren’t here 10, 000 years ago don’t put it in your mouth. – Paul Chek
If it doesn’t swim, run, or fly, or isn’t green and grow in the ground, don’t eat it. – Charles Poliquin
Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident. – Charles Poliquin
Life is a tragedy of nutrition. – Arnold Ehret
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
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
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. – Astrid Alauda
Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health. – Jack Weatherford
One should eat to live; not live to eat. – Socrates
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom. – Jack Lalanne
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. – Ann Wigmore
When in doubt, use nutrition first. – Roger Williams
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. – Adelle Davis
Today more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies, and lack of physical exercise. – Mike Adams
Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food. – John H. Tobe
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. – Robert C. Peale
Fake food—I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut—is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. – Julia Child
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. – Doug Larson
I’m a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I’m an old guy. – Warren Cuccurullo
When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less. – Richard Armour
One man’s poison ivy is another man’s spinach. – George Ade
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have the safest way to health. – Hippocrates
Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy. – Subodh Gupta
Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you’re working out, you’re going to feel good. – Jason Statham
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fuelling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. – Tom Vilsack
Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough. – Dwayne Johnson
The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high. – Anne M. Mulcahy
To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients. – John M. Poothullil
There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition. – Pierre Dukan
I’m really into nutrition from the inside out. – Nicole Ari Parker
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. – Josh Billings
If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don’t need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful. – Subodh Gupta
Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well. – Karen Sessions
The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it; remove the flours, starches and sugars; that’s all. – Samael Aun Weor
It breathes reassurance, it offers consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability…There is nothing like a bowl of hot soup. – Louis Degouy
I’m always on the look out for inspiring nutrition quotes to add to my list so please share this post and drop your favourite in the comments.
