This is a selection of sayings that I've gathered from many websites concerning food, nutrition, and life in general. Some of them might not be accurate, but they will always be attributed to great and well-known individuals whose intentions were good. And modern science has one final thing to say. Thanks to all of you.

1. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

. Hippocrates

2. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

. Hippocrates

3. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

. Hippocrates

4. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

. Hippocrates

5. Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

. Hippocrates

6. People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

. Michael Pollan

7. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

8. Food is all those substances that, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living

. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

9. Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

. Alfred Austin

10.            Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

. Alice Waters

11.            I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

. Mahatma Gandhi

12.            It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate if we, in turn, will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

. Mahatma Gandhi

13.            The first wealth is health.

. Emerson

14.            Exercise is king, nutrition is Queen, put them together, and you've got a kingdom.

. Jack Lalanne

15.            Our food should be our medicine, and our medicine should be our food.

. Hippocrates

16.            Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a properly balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited.

. Michael Tierra

17.            Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and the right solution to getting rid of excess body weight effortlessly and becoming slim and healthy forever.

. Subodh Gupta

18.            To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

. La Rochefoucauld

19.            If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have the safest way to health.

. Hippocrates

20.            These small things – nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness – are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

. Friedrich Nietzsche

21.            Most people don't have a problem going on a diet. The problem is being consistent with their diet.

. Karen Sessions

22.            Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

. Edward Stanley

I WISH YOU HEALTH

AND WELLNESS