Nutrients Quotes

You have to eat a variety of different foods to get all the nutrients your body needs to keep you healthy. By eating the same thing day after day you won't get these protective nutrients. - Dee Murphy

With all the lawn fertilizers, agricultural fertilizers, golf courses, etc., nobody's arguing that there are more nutrients in the system than is natural. - Aaron Adams

Whole grains are just that, the entire grain including the bran, the germ, and the endosperm. Lots of refined carbohydrates are fortified to add back some of the nutrients, but you can't add back all the fiber. - Suzanne Farrell

While you take a supplement to replace certain nutrients, you can't replace them all. - Kathleen Zelman

While in most cases you can get all the nutrients you need from a balanced diet, many people choose to take supplements. But taking some high-dose supplements over a long period of time could be harmful. - John Krebs

When you think of the Caribbean today, you think of clear blue warm water... Probably about 12 million years ago, it was more like the eastern Pacific; it was a bit cooler. There was greater seasonal change in temperatures, and there were more nutrients around. - Laurie Anderson

When the weather turns nice, folks go out and purchase fertilizer without much thought to what they are applying. Without a soil test it is easy to over apply nutrients, like phosphorus, that end up in our local streams and rivers. - Jay Chism

When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far. - Charles Benbrook

When farmers plant the same fields season after season and cannot afford to replace nutrients taken up by their crops, the soil is literally mined of life. - Amit Roy

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. - Maret Traber