Quotes About Processed Foods

#1. NO PROCESSED FOODS! Natural is best. Straight from the garden. Avoid the tins.

Natalie Cook

#2. The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.

Michael Moss

#3. I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

Theo Rossi

#4. There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to work perfectly with processed foods. All of them are geared to increase allure.

Michael Moss

#5. I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.

Tamra Davis

#6. We always get dressings and sauces on the side. However, we definitely like our glass of wine - or three sometimes. We order dessert but just take a few bites. I stopped buying processed foods. The hardest part is teaching this to our kids, but slowly we're making progress.

Dayna Devon

#7. As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Jose Andres

#8. At one point, Sarah Palin sent her husband instructions to stock up on 'fresh fruit and veggies' for the kids, and 'as little processed foods as possible.'

Bill Dedman

#9. I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

Ann Louise Gittleman

#10. In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

Parker Young

#11. The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.

Kate Christensen

#12. The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.

Joel Fuhrman

#13. Sugar has no nutritive value and is addictive. It is one of the biggest enemies to your health. It is an addiction that is very hard to break. Sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup are in most processed foods. They

Elizabeth Gibbons

#14. Radiation does discriminate. If you are sedentary and eating processed foods then you will be more affected than a person that exercises and eats fresh organic food.

Steven Magee

#15. I've never been crazy when it comes to controlling my diet. I just avoid processed foods, don't mix carbs and make sure I get my protein. I'm a carnivore. I love my wild game and especially my buffalo meat.

Diego Sanchez

#16. Eat for nutrition and food value. Emphasize natural foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate junk entirely.

Vince Gironda

#17. I cheat every now and then, but the foundation of my eating habits is organic. I don't like to eat a lot of processed foods. So it's fresh vegetables, fresh herbs and meat without all of the antibiotics and preservatives.

Tia Mowry

#18. One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.

Michael Moss

#19. As a result of our reliance on nutrient-poor processed foods, the majority of Americans are overfed, undernourished, and running on empty.

Shalane Flanagan

#20. Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

Kris Carr

#21. I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it's the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.

Joan Rivers

#22. My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

Jessica Biel

#23. In addition, a different study linked soy formula given to infant girls with uterine fibroids later diagnosed in adult women.46 Thus, soy may act like estrogen in the body and soy is an additive in many processed foods.

Ray Howell

#24. The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

Joel Fuhrman

#25. I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

Luke Mitchell

#26. When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Michael Pollan

#27. A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

Joel Fuhrman

#28. I work out with our trainer, Jocelynne Boschen of Alpha Sport L.A., hike a lot, and eat healthy. I love cooking so prepare a lot of my own food and avoid processed foods. No fast food. No soda.

Elizabeth Banks

#29. I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

Monica Denise Brown

#30. The fructose intake of the average American is currently close to 3 ounces (80 grams) a day. Our parents' generation, consuming just honey on their toast, far fewer processed foods, and a normal amount of fruit, took in no more than ½ to 1 ounce (only around 16 to 24 grams) a day.

Giulia Enders

#31. industry that spends $36 billion a year on marketing messages precisely to persuade us to eat more, and eat at different times, eat in the car, eat in front of television, and eat highly processed foods,

Roni DeLuz

#32. I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time ... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.

Malin Akerman

#33. I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods.

Sebastian Roche

#34. Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Mark Hyman

#35. Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.

Suzanne Somers

#36. Plants and animals are much more nutritionally dense than processed carbohydrate foods, which comprise a large percentage of calories in the Standard American Diet.

Mark Sisson

#37. Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as
processed carbs. They're loaded with sugar and other additives.
The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive
we feel. The more dead foods we eat ... well, you get the idea.

Tony Horton

#38. We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.

Kris Carr

#39. of those in food to have optimal health. Most enzymes are destroyed in foods that are processed, refined, or cooked at temperatures above 118 degrees. Raw or lightly steamed foods, on the other hand, are rich in enzymes.

Ann Boroch

#40. Highly processed and calorie-laden foods are cheap, abundant, and very well marketed: think doughnuts, soda, chips, and candy. To reiterate, this "advance" has come at tremendous cost. All our major chronic diseases have resulted from this abundance.

Franklin House

#41. We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

Daphne Oz

#42. Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

Augusten Burroughs

#43. The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

Joel Salatin

#44. Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

Cat Cora

#45. Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.

Joel Fuhrman

#46. I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

Danica McKellar