“But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!”
— Richard Simmons
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“Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.”
— Ingrid Newkirk
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“Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.”
— Kenneth H. Cooper
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“But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.”
— Bill Murray
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“The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.”
— Lee Haney
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“My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.”
— Chelsea Clinton
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“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.”
— Arabella Weir
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“The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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“I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.”
— Holly Madison
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“I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.”
— William Banting
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“I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.”
— Rue McClanahan
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