#food

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #food-science #nutrition #social-sciences #diet

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world. ↗

— Dwayne Andreas

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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. ↗

— James Beard

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I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#eat #foods #i #junk #think

High-quality food is better for your health. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#better #food #health #high-quality #your

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. ↗