Famous Quotes & Sayings

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

What has been demonstrated by this trial is that vitamin B-6 and folic acid are not helpful in preventing heart disease. The key message for people taking vitamins is to be careful -- you can overdo what you thought was beneficial,

Michael Specter

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Michael Specter

We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.

Catherine Bell

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Ashley Jensen

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

Jamie Moyer

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

Trinny Woodall

I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can't absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I've always remembered that.

I think it's a good thing. Any diet that restricts healthful foods in vitamins and minerals is not good in the short term.

She was disappointed, because she thought we'd brought food. That comment hit hard. It's really frustrating because we're trying to do the right thing, but we realize that medicine alone is not the answer. We can give them all the vitamins we want, we can give them all the pills we have, but if they're hungry, malnutrition, that supersedes just about everything.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.

Celine Dion

Fruits are snacks, which are rich in vitamins, and can be eaten the whole day.

Carnie Wilson

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

Dick Durbin

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

Deepak Chopra

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.

Alyssa Milano

I take vitamins. I workout every day.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

E. L. Konigsburg

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

Terry Crews

Buffalo rib-eye steaks, on the grill, is my favorite meal, seriously. It has less fat, more vitamins and more protein than beef. It is wonderful. Look, it was what the Indians ate, and they were very healthy. It's very good meat.

Linus Pauling

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.

People are using vitamins and minerals no longer as an adjunct to diet, but as medicines in their own right.

This is another study among several recently released, which shows that the common wisdom that 'more is better' is clearly not the case. Vitamins are nutrients required by the body in minute quantities for normal physiology, and we assume that if a little is good, more must be better, ... Hopefully, this will encourage patients and their physicians to take a good look at all the substances and medications that are being taken, and assess the potential for adverse reactions - even for naturally occurring substances which are assumed to be safe.

Ray Brown

Something baked. Chicken or fish or pork. I have to take care of myself, eat like a guy in my 40s -- I just happen to be in football. My wife doesn't fry a lot of food. I love fresh tomatoes, broccoli, corn. My two-year-old loves corn, and I agree. I probably should take vitamins but I don't. I get my vitamins the old-fashioned way -- from fruits and vegetables.

Terry Wogan

They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties.

Amy Roberts

They are empty calories. It goes back to a balanced diet and ... (sodas) really don't fit into a balanced diet. They provide too many calories, too many carbohydrates and too much sugar and provide no nutrient value. They don't have any vitamins or useful minerals.

Fish is a good source of so many other important nutrients, like vitamins B6, A, D, and K, and the minerals zinc, selenium, and copper.

Boomers over 50 may be healthier, wealthier and better educated than any previous generation of 50-year-olds in American history. But they also may be poised for a big fall if all they do to stay healthy is drink designer water and pop vitamins all day long.

Andrew Weil

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

Colonel Sanders

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

Debbie Harry

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

We give you all the vitamins you lose, plus some to help you.

Kurt Vonnegut

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.