“For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.”
– William Banting
“Mine is the least fat diet in the world.”
– Pierre Dukan
“She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.”
– Arthur Baer
“Sex keeps me in shape. I don’t diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.”
– Lisa Snowdon
“A bonus: You don’t have to diet to direct.”
– Joey Lauren Adams
“I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don’t need different fuel from other people – they just need more of it because they use more energy.”
– Deborah Bull
“My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don’t know moderation.”
– Sean Astin
“The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.”
– Barbara Cartland
“I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it’s been far easier than I thought.”
– Michelle Forbes
“I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one’s education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.”
– Fannie Farmer
“A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I’m completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.”
– Michelle Forbes
“Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.”
– Tim Ferriss
“Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet they are about denial and discipline.”
– Kathy Freston
“Though I’m vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren’t quite ready to take that step in whole.”
– Kathy Freston
“We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.”
– Steve Burton
“How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?”
– Robert Atkins
“I think I’ve done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it’s weird: I’m thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don’t obsess about it.”
– Molly Sims
“I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I’m around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.”
– Nick Carter
“You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.”
– Robert Atkins
“I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.”
– Taylor Dayne
“Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet.”
– Robert Atkins
“Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That’s not true, I always eat properly.”
– Denise Van Outen
“I’ve never been on a fad diet.”
– Denise Van Outen
“A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don’t eat.”
– Robert Atkins
“I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.”
– Robert Atkins
“I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn’t get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.”
– Robert Atkins
“We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn’t give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don’t have that problem because they’re not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.”
– Chris Noth
“My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.”
– Chelsea Clinton
“I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I’ve got to do is apply it.”
– John Candy
“I’m not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn’t play a big part in my diet.”
– Katie Holmes