7 Alton Brown Quotes on Health

Alton Brown quotes on health

11. This is how it starts, you know. Dissatisfied with the sustenance provided by home, these kids are walking right into the clutches of the processed food world! I mean, from here on out, they'll look to drive-thrus for satisfaction and 'Biggie size!' will be their battlecry.

22. handing an apple to a doctor: Here you go. This should keep you away from yourself for at least a day. How do you like them apples?

89. There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. I eat cream, butter, and bacon; I just don't eat pounds of it at a time. I use these things when they are needed in recipes and leave them out when they're not needed.

92. on diets: My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that 'self honesty' can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

93. Americans don't eat near enough vegetables. I'm not a vegetarian, though I do respect anyone who makes a hard and fast decision about what he or she is going to live on. All you have to do is look at the health statistics from countries whose cuisines are lighter on meat and heavy on veggies and fish. They live longer. It's as simple as that. What I would hate to see is a radical swing away from meat. I think we evolved as omnivores for a reason. And that's all I have to say about that.

117. Salted pork belly, yum. I'll get my angioplasty suite ready.

141. Over on the challenger's side, we've got some chemicals at play. And I understand that that is methylcellulose.. and methylcellulose, it's a gelling agent. But guys that are getting on an age like me, know it mostly as the main ingredient in Metamucil. And goshdarnit, you've gotta be regular if you're gonna be happy on this planet.