We compiled some of our favorite quotes below around nutrition from an amazing group of individuals in no specific order:
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
- Hippocrates
"You are what you eat."
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison."
- Ann Wigmore
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."
- Thomas Edison
"Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one."
- Astrid Alauda
"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
- Michael Pollan
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."
- Mark Twain
"The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison."
- Ann Wigmore
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
- François de La Rochefoucauld
"The greatest wealth is health."
- Virgil
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
- Jim Rohn
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement."
- Jess C. Scott
"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."
- English Proverb
"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
- Michael Pollan
"He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors."
- Chinese Proverb
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison
"Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence. All parts are interconnected."
- T. Colin Campbell
"Health is not about the weight you lose, but about the life, you gain."
- Dr. Josh Axe
"The best doctor gives the least medicine."
- Benjamin Franklin