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Food Quotes by Neal Barnard

14 Food quotes by Neal Barnard

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If you’re curious about Neal Barnard’s take on what we eat, this brief set gives you a solid snapshot. The selections focus on his core ideas about health, diet, and the impact of food choices, making it a handy primer for anyone wanting a taste of his viewpoint without wading through a massive archive.

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If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

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A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

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The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

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In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise…

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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric…

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I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with…

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I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive…

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Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much…

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Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw…

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Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

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Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of…

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A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of…

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“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile…

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In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less…

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If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's…

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Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us…

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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has…

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Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and…

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Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow…

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The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once…

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I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein…

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It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down…

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I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be…

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I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that…

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A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

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I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the…

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