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Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #dieting #eating-disorders #society

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #thinness #weight

You have a choice. You can continue eating the foods manufacturers want you to buy that are making you unhealthy. Or you can return to eating the foods God provided for you, already magnificently packaged in their own skins, rinds, pods and shells. Foods that contain all the human-appropriate vitamins and minerals you need, and the right proportion of sugar, fat, salt and calories. Will you listen to God, or will you continue listening to the marketing and advertising gurus whose agenda has nothing to do with your health?Cukierkorn, Rabbi Celso; Collins, Susan Ford (2012-10-11). The Miracle Diet: Lose Weight, Gain Health... 10 Diet Skills (p. 103). ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#nutrition #weight-loss #diet

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#anyone #better #heavy #how #i

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#every #i #i am #i think #inspiring

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#area #areas #been #before #body

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

#chemical #constitution #dealing #determined #difficulty

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#heights #international #literature #make #rises

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#i #socializing #solid #streets #training