Adapted Quote by Michael Pollan

All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the…

— Michael Pollan

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

“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages to be…

— Michael Pollan

“Animals have evolved to survive,” Rawson says. They like what’s best for them. People blanch to see “fish meal” or “meat meal” on a…

— Mary Roach

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

“Eating a Paleolithic diet is not about historical re-enactment; it is about mimicking the effect of such a diet on the metabolism with foods…

— John Durant

As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat.

— Ori Hofmekler

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use…

— Henry David Thoreau

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are…

— Herbert M. Shelton

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our…

— Lionel Tiger

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

— Jerry Brown