What to Eat? Motivational Quotes

Struggling through a mountain of nutritional advice to figure out what to eat? The basics are pretty straighforward – here's a few thoughts for starters:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
– Michael Pollan
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
– Robert Hutchison
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
– Annita Manning
Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would.
– V.L. Allineare

Take Care Of Your Body: Motivational Quotes

If you often feel that healthy eating is too much of a chore, think about how you're giving your body what it needs, and how you're improving your long-term health.

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
– Robert C. Peale
The greatest wealth is health.
– Virgil
The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
– John Redman Coxe, 1800

Keep Up Healthy Eating: Motivational Quotes

Sometimes, it's hard to turn down that big slice of cake or to resist cravings for junk food. Turn to these quotes when you need a bit of a will-power boost:

Act as though and it shall be.
The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are.
Your current results are who you were.
– James A. Ray
My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet. – Samuel Hoffenstein

Eat More Fruit & Veg: Motivational Quotes

Yes, you know you should be getting that five-a-day (and ideally more) – but do you manage it? If fruits and veggies feel like a chore, try changing the way you think about them!

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.
– Astrid Alauda
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!
– Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward.
– Jasmine Heiler