Argument Quote by Michael Pollan

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of…

— Ellen Gustafson

People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains…

— Michael Pollan

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy…

— Michael Greger

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define…

— Michael Pollan

People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of…

— John A. McDougall

in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

— Joel Fuhrman

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and…

— Mark Hyman

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed…

— Joel Fuhrman

“All of our uncertainties about nutrition should not obscure the plain fact that the chronic diseases that now kill most of us can be…

— Michael Pollan

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

— Jerry Brown

I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

— Daniel Boulud