#nutrition

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#dieting #nutrition #self-awareness #self-esteem #survive

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food. ↗

— John H. Tobe

#food #nutrition #diet

Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet. ↗

— Larry McCleary

#fat #federal-government #health #nutrition #public-health

The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that’s all. ↗

— Samael Aun Weor

#healthy-diet #nutrition #diet

I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try. Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind. ↗

— Ryan E. Day

#diets #nutrition #diet

Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure. ↗

— T. Colin Campbell

#diet #nutrition #robert-atkins #diet

Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. ↗

— Frank A. Oski

#birth #breastfeeding #breastmilk #cancer #family

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. ↗

— Ann Wigmore

#life #medicine #nutrition #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

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nutrition #food