Micronutrients Quotes

#1. The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define
worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating
empty calories.

Bruce Ames

#2. Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

Joel Fuhrman

#3. Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

Bjorn Lomborg

#4. To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

Joel Fuhrman

#5. The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today - even as the number of children has risen.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#6. The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

Joel Fuhrman

#7. Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.

Joel Fuhrman

#8. The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.

Joel Fuhrman

#9. Death and parting are the same.

Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

#10. I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Michael Davis

#11. Not until you finally try to put down the stuff do you realize, with stinging clarity, precisely why you picked it up in the first place. All life, in this freshly nerve-flayed state, boils down to a choice of hells. The hell of being fucked-up on drugs or the hell of being fucked-up without them.

Jerry Stahl

#12. Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.

Susan Mallery

#14. I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Sonya Hartnett

#15. There was a time when I do not understand poetry.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Rick Perlstein