--- title: "10 Western Diet Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 10 Western Diet quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Western Diet sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/john-a-mcdougall-49094_animal_people-feel-poorly-because-they-are-nour_1328313.jpg" --- > [People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-a-mcdougall/people-feel-poorly-because-they-are-nourished-by-foods-you-wouldn-t/) [John A. McDougall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-a-mcdougall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/john-a-mcdougall-49094_animal_people-feel-poorly-because-they-are-nour_1328313.jpg) > [If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-fuhrman/if-you-eat-the-standard-western-diet-that-most-people-eat-in-the/) [Joel Fuhrman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-fuhrman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f0/joel-fuhrman-1525_diet_if-you-eat-the-standard-western-diet-tha_696692.png) > [People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/people-eating-the-western-diet-of-heavily-processed-food-of-lots-of/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac7/michael-pollan-408_diet_people-eating-the-western-diet-of-heavil_1669735.png) > [The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-greger/the-typical-western-diet-is-the-number-one-cause-of-premature-death/) [Michael Greger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-greger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/michael-greger-3039_death_the-typical-western-diet-is-the-number-o_1222121.jpg) > [The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/the-human-animal-is-adapted-to-and-apparently-can-thrive-on-an/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/400/michael-pollan-408_adapted_the-human-animal-is-adapted-to-and-appar_273230.png) > [...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/there-s-a-lot-of-money-in-the-western-diet-the-more-you-process-any/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/michael-pollan-408_accounts_there-s-a-lot-of-money-in-the-western-di_250275.png) > [The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/the-sheer-novelty-and-glamor-of-the-western-diet-with-its-seventeen/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/michael-pollan-408_billions_the-sheer-novelty-and-glamor-of-the-west_3039367.png) > [All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/all-the-arguments-about-nutrition-are-really-about-what-is-the/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/michael-pollan-408_argument_all-the-arguments-about-nutrition-are-re_2320183.png) > [The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-gustafson/the-abundance-of-cheap-food-with-low-nutritional-value-in-the-western/) [Ellen Gustafson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-gustafson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/ellen-gustafson-46896_abundance_the-abundance-of-cheap-food-with-low-nut_3169922.png) > [“As is jalapeño—though according to psychologist Paul Rozin, Mexican dogs, unlike American dogs, enjoy a little heat. Rozin’s work suggests animals have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roach/as-is-jalape-o-though-according-to-psychologist-paul-rozin-mexican/) [Mary Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/mary-roach-635_black-coffee_as-is-jalape-o-though-according-to-psych_833386.png) ## Top authors on Western Diet - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-pollan-67386.jpg) Michael Pollan 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/western-diet/michael-pollan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/western-diet/#itemlist", "name": "Western Diet Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. 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Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Pollan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/all-the-arguments-about-nutrition-are-really-about-what-is-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/michael-pollan-408_argument_all-the-arguments-about-nutrition-are-re_2320183.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/michael-pollan-408_argument_all-the-arguments-about-nutrition-are-re_2320183.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/michael-pollan-408_argument_all-the-arguments-about-nutrition-are-re_2320183.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it…” — Michael Pollan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ellen Gustafson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-gustafson/the-abundance-of-cheap-food-with-low-nutritional-value-in-the-western/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/ellen-gustafson-46896_abundance_the-abundance-of-cheap-food-with-low-nut_3169922.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/ellen-gustafson-46896_abundance_the-abundance-of-cheap-food-with-low-nut_3169922.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/ellen-gustafson-46896_abundance_the-abundance-of-cheap-food-with-low-nut_3169922.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health…” — Ellen Gustafson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As is jalapeño—though according to psychologist Paul Rozin, Mexican dogs, unlike American dogs, enjoy a little heat. Rozin’s work suggests animals have cultural food preferences too. Rozin was not the first academic to feed ethnic cuisine to research animals. In “The Effect of a Native Mexican Diet on Learning and Reasoning in White Rats,” subjects were served chili con carne, boiled pinto beans, and black coffee. Their scores at maze-solving remained high, possibly because of an added impetus to find their way to a bathroom. In 1926, the Indian Research Fund Association compared rats who lived on chapatis and vegetables with rats fed a Western diet of tinned meat, white bread, jam, and tea. 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