Cathy Nonas Quotations

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.

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, and it made him a very wealthy man.

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,

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

Finally, if it's really only five pounds, it may be due to physical changes such as perimenopause, certain medications, or even from muscle if you're very active,'' Nonas says.

We already know this, certainly, and we also know that poverty and obesity are very clearly linked. These researchers are just looking at the issue again, and clarifying it and making it scientific.

Whatever you do, don't eat it in front of the television set. Eat it when you can maintain a focus, when you can taste the food, when you can taste whether it's delicious. Don't stand and eat, put it on a plate.

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.

There's no more nutritional value in raw sugar than there is in white sugar or brown sugar.

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.

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

You're not going to be able to find one thing that is going to be the be-all and end-all in obesity in kids. I don't think any one thing is going to have a strong effect, but if we don't start to do some of these things now, we don't have a chance in hell of reducing obesity.

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.

Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.

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.