Fight Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

Rice, wheat and other grains can help to address protein-calorie under-nutrition. But only attention to horticulture, milk and eggs can help to overcome hidden…

— M. S. Swaminathan

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body…

— Joel Fuhrman

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

— Joel Fuhrman

“Across the board, levels of key mineral nutrients—zinc, calcium, manganese, iron, copper—in our food crops have declined by an average of 50 to more…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Give thinking the opportunity to be your everyday meal; you get nourished by the best success nutrients. You will never be deficient!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”

— Jane B. Reece

Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating…

— Ina May Gaskin

“Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes.…

— Jane Shellenberger

“When our bodies don’t have the nutrients they need—the nutrients from fats—for basic tasks like cellular repair, hormonal function or even damage control, they…

— Liz Wolfe

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his…

— Howard Warren Buffett

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

— Michael Pollan