Top 61 Food Medicine Quotes
#1. Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.
Howard Zinn
#2. If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music ... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
Alice Walker
#3. Every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.
Charles Krauthammer
#4. It is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
Mary Schmich
#6. Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Food can be a poison or a cure. Why would you choose to ingest toxins when you could be taking the world's best detox medicine. For the purposes of detoxification, let me be clear; always try to eat organic.
Woodson Merrell
#8. Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
Hippocrates
#9. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Nikola Tesla
#10. I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton
#11. I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#12. A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. (The coconut tree was a machine: a solar-powered, self-building factory that required no maintenance and cost no money - a clean-running, noiseless manufacturer of useful things. In went soil, air, and water; out came food, drink, fuel, building materials, rope, medicine, and, yes, pillows.)
Peter Rudiak-Gould
#14. Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.
Marco Rubio
#15. 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
#16. No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
Rachel Brosnahan
#17. Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.
David Perlmutter
#18. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
Chanakya
#19. Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
Hippocrates
#20. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
Luther Burbank
#21. Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#22. Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.
Deepak Chopra
#23. Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
Henrik Ibsen
#24. From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great!
Vera Tarman
#25. Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#26. The food that you eat can either be the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison. - Ann Wigmore
Mindy Pelz
#27. Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.
Joel Fuhrman
#28. The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Lin Yutang
#29. Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
#30. The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#31. By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved.
Horst Rechelbacher
#33. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.
Ann Wigmore
#34. Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh
Michael B. Jordan
#35. As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
Asif Ali Zardari
#36. Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.
Pat Williams
#37. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Hippocrates
#38. There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#39. The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.
Wangari Maathai
#40. Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.
Michael Specter
#41. Food is man's only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.
Bernard Jensen
#42. One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology - whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab - is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.
Hamza Yusuf
#44. The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#45. Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.
Euell Gibbons
#46. Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!
Daphne Oz
#47. Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy
Nelson Mandela
#48. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
Hippocrates
#49. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
#50. Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
Edmund Burke
#52. My big mantra is 'food is medicine,' so I really love being able to talk about how you can make food your medicine, how you can make food be the thing that hopefully allows you to live a longer, happier, healthier life.
Travis Lane Stork
#53. Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
Anthony Liccione
#54. We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.
George W. Bush
#55. They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl
#56. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.
Harold Bell Wright
#57. What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food? Is it an important medicine? What can it do for future generations - or present generations?
Horst Rechelbacher
#58. You've never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry," Bob said. "Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too.
Jim Butcher
#59. A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.
Chanakya
#60. The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine without using it or like a hungry man who describes the taste of a food without eating it.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#61. America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.
Paula Gunn Allen
