Nathan Pritikin Quotes
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.

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I've tried several diets over the past couple of years – not because I need to lose weight, but because my pants are trying to cut me in two.
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Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.
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When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.
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Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. People whose diets lack (fats and proteins) or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases - common in developing countries - cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.
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What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.
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A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.
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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
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I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
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I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
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If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
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We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
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I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.
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All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. Theyre also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.
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I don’t want to end up being one of those vegetarians who constantly craves a bacon sandwich.
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Secretaries who had been given candies in clear desktop dishes were caught with their hands in the candy dish 71 percent more often (7.7 versus 4.6 times) as those given white dishes. Every day that dish was on their desk they ate 77 more calories. Over a year, that candy dish would have added over five pounds of extra weight. What is a little bit scary is that none of them would have probably known where those pounds came from.
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I didn't know what to do with calories.
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I am really simple with diets. I say feed your frame.
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Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.
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Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
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Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.
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Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.