Cathy Nonas Quotes (11 Quotes)

We know that a 5 to 10 percent weight loss has significant effects on blood glucose and on blood pressure and triglycerides. If you put them all together -- healthy weight, healthy eating, physical activity -- you will find on every level that you will see a reduction in diabetes and heart disease,

He had the most popular diet that ever existed, ... He was not just a doctor, he was a businessman. He made his diet into an industry,

In diabetes, a healthy weight and physical activity really help improve blood sugars, and the kinds of food you eat and how much (you eat) does, too.

After all, you have to take gum out in order to eat.

I've always said that vending machines is a start, but nowhere near enough to make a dent, ... This, by itself, is not an effective policy. That's different from saying it shouldn't be done.

We are a country that is becoming vastly overweight, no matter how many diets we come up with,

Brown sugar is not any better than white sugar. People should still reduce their intake of all sugars because they're basically empty calories.

At the moment, when we do an intervention we do a small intervention and when we're done, we pull out and it can't be sustained. We have to look at this as a public health issue and people haven't been doing that.

The fact is that anyone who loves chocolate can tell you that in some cases a sweet fruit just won't fill the void of that wonderful taste of chocolate.

People who are grabbing that brown sugar because they think it's healthier are basically deluding themselves.

A handful of pretzels here and there, sucking on hard candies throughout the day, or even just sampling as you make dinner can add up to more calories than you might think.