Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

—Adelle Davis

About Adelle Davis

Adelle Davis (25 February 1904 – 31 May 1974) was an American writer and nutritionist, considered "the most famous nutritionist in the early to mid-20th century." She was an advocate for improved health through better nutrition. She wrote an early textbook on nutrition in 1942, followed by four best-selling books...

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Nutrition is a young subject; it has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly.… They seem to believe that unless food tastes like Socratic hemlock, it cannot build health. Frankly, I often wonder what such persons plan to do with good health in case they acquire it.

—Adelle Davis

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

—Adelle Davis

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

—Adelle Davis

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

—Adelle Davis

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It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

—Fran Lebowitz

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If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

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Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

—Sophia Loren

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

—W. C. Fields

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