Why Are You Listening To Me?

It's a good question. In my ongoing efforts to help you all see food as nutrients first and pleasure second I brought in the "Big Guns." Here are some great minds and what they wrote about food and health.


"Nutrition... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly... "

Adelle Davis (1904-1974)

“We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.”

Steve Elbert

…“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” -Thomas Edison

...“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” – Hippocrates

…“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” -La Rochefoucauld

…“He that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skills of the physician.” – Chinese proverb

…“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

“Those who think they have no time for healthy eating, will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” ~ Spanish Proverb

“If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.” ~ Rockefeller Institute of Medicine research

"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour".
William Shakespeare

"When diet is wrong medicine is of no use.
When diet is correct medicine is of no need".
Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb

'Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks".
Lin Yutang

"Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means".
Maimonides

"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine."
- Hippocrates

There seems to be a theme here. Sure, I could have likely looked up a bunch of quotes about how counting calories is evil, but they are all written by people who died of heart disease and diabetes and that makes it all too sad. I could have made that last part up.

More soon....