#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

Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated. ↗

— Maria Rodale

#diet #nutrition #organic #diet

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be? ↗

— Julie Murphy

#eat #food #health #healthy #nutrition

Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much. ↗

— Earle Gray

#food #hunger #malnutrition #obesity #food

Food comas - known as postprandial somnolence by people who liked to get bean up during recess - are fine when you're relaxing with friends or family, but they're a major setback when you have exams and papers to write. ↗

— Stefanie Weisman

#nutrition #students #family

According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The problem is not limited to America: The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition--a billion--had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition--800 million. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#diabetes #fatties #food #health #health-care

Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#love #nutrition #relationships #experience