#lt

...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferret it out, reassess the value of the experience to us in order not to further project the blame in anger outward to an external cause. ↗

— Martha Char Love

#emptiness #guilt #psychology #psychology-quotes #self-help-book

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#food #health #hunger #wealth #food

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#food #wickedness #food

It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live. ↗

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#raw-foods #vegan #vegetarian #wellness #food

Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247) ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#food #italy #mediterranean #food

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#honor #love #redemption #food

Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story. ↗

— Morgan Spurlock

#health #food

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago. ↗

— Larry McCleary

#food-politics #health #nutrition #obesity #supermarkets

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. ↗

— Robert Orben

#eat #food #get #health #need