34 Inspiring Nutrition Quotes

In a world where information about food and health is abundant yet often overwhelming, finding the right words to inspire a nutritious lifestyle can make all the difference. Nutrition isn't just about the food we eat; it's a journey towards wellness, an embrace of a vibrant life, and a commitment to nourishing our bodies and minds. With that in mind, we've curated a selection of 34 inspiring nutrition quotes that aim to motivate, educate, and enhance your approach to eating well. Whether you're well on your path to health or just starting out, these quotes serve as little nudges of encouragement, offering wisdom and perspective from experts and enthusiasts alike. Dive in and let these words guide you towards a more mindful and enriching relationship with food.

1. “Life is a tragedy of nutrition” - Arnold Ehret

2. “While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187” - Michael Pollan

3. “We can, and must, develop dialogue and relatedness with our body because it’s talking to us all the time. And please remember, your body loves you. It does everything it can to keep you alive and functioning. You can feed it garbage, and it will take it and digest it for you. You can deprive it of sleep, but still it gets you up and running next morning. You can drink too much alcohol, and it will eliminate it from your system. It loves you unconditionally and does its best to allow you to live the life you came here for. The real issue in this relationship is not whether your body loves you, but whether you love your body. In any relationship, if one partner is loving, faithful and supportive, it’s easy for the other to take that person for granted. That’s what most of us do with our bodies. It is time for you to shift this, and working to understand your cravings is one of the best places to begin. Then you can build a mutually loving relationship with your own body.” - Joshua Rosenthal

4. “Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.” - Herbert M Shelton

5. “There are few chemicals that we as a people are exposed to that have as many far reaching physiological affects on living beings as Monosodium Glutamate does. MSG directly causes obesity, diabetes, triggers epilepsy, destroys eye tissues, is genotoxic in many organs and is the probable cause of ADHD and Autism. Considering that MSG’s only reported role in food is that of ‘flavour enhancer’ is that use worth the risk of the myriad of physical ailments associated with it? Does the public really want to be tricked into eating more food and faster by a food additive?” - John E. Erb

6. “foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.” - Michael Lewis

7. “You will know if you are too acidic if you get sick often, get urinary tract infections, suffer from headaches, and have bad breath and body odor (when you do not use antiperspirant). Acidosis is the medical term for a blood alkalinity of less than 7.35. A normal reading is called homeostasis. It is not considered a disease; although in and of itself it is recognized as an indicator of disease. Your blood feeds your organs and tissues; so if your blood is acidic, your organs will suffer and your body will have to compensate for this imbalance somehow. We need to do all we can to keep our blood alkalinity high. The way to do this is to dramatically increase our intake of alkaline-rich elements like fresh, clean air; fresh, clean water; raw vegetables (particularly their juices); and sunlight, while drastically reducing our intake of and exposure to acid-forming substances: pollution, cigarettes, hard alcohol, white flour, white sugar, red meat, and coffee. By tipping the scales in the direction of alkalinity through alkaline diet and removal of acid waste through cleansing, and acidic body can become an alkaline one."Bear in mind that some substances that are alkaline outside the body, like milk, are acidic to the body; meaning that they leave and acid reside in the tissues, just as many substances that are acidic outside the body, like lemons and ripe tomatoes, are alkaline and healing in the body and contribute to the body's critical alkaline reserve.” - Natalia Rose

8. “About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.” - Larry McCleary MD

9. “Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.” - Larry McCleary MD

10. “You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?” - Julie Murphy

11. “That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.” - Michael Pollan

12. “I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try.Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.” - Ryan E. Day

13. “I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.” - Helen Fielding

14. “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

15. “Just imagine, how much easier our lives would be if we were born with a ‘user guide or owner’s manual’ which could tell us what to eat and how to live healthy.” - Erika M. Szabo

16. “You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.” - Kenneth Oppel

17. “That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.” - Michael Pollan

18. “Life is too short not to eat raw and it's even shorter if you don't.” - Marie Sarantakis

19. “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” - Ann Wigmore

20. “The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teeth, pushing hungrily from between his shrivelled lips like a clam from a shell, a bottom feeder searching for salty nutrition.” - Tom Conrad

21. “Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?” - Maria Rodale

22. “Food, like your money, should be working for you!” - Rita Deattrea Beckford M.D.

23. “Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.” - Ann Wigmore

24. “Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.” - T. Colin Campbell

25. “As I learned about the consequences of my food choices and as I recognized that I didn't have to eat animals, and that eating animals caused the animals to suffer, it caused an enormous footprint on our planet, and it wasn't healthy, it made since to go vegan. And, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made, and I think most people who've decided to go vegan share a similar experience. It's very empowering. And, when I went vegan I actually started eating a wide variety of foods I had never tried before. Different ethnic foods. You also start combining things in different ways, you start becoming more creative in the kitchen. But I went vegan just because it seemed to make sense, and it was aligned with my own values, because I didn't want to support this system that was so abusive to animals, and wasting and squandering so many scarce resources on our planet. And it was also healthier, so it was in my interest to eat food that was plant-based instead of animal-based. Living a vegan lifestyle makes a lot of sense.” - Gene Baur

26. “Put your Body First!” - Catherine Piot

27. “...we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth...” - Ezra Taft Benson

28. “Both the human immune system and the plant immune system are fundamentally interdependent on the quality and fertility of the soil. Our immune system, and even our physical structure, are a reflection of the foods we have eaten from either toxic and nutrient depleted soils, or wonderfully fertile soils.” - Eryn Paige

29. “Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.” - T. Colin Campbell

30. “Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.” - T. Colin Campbell

31. “Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.” - Maria Rodale

32. “Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.” - Maria Rodale

33. “No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.” - Walter Willet

34. “Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.” - Steve Maraboli