#sit

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

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why. ↗

— Keri Hulme

#food

21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist. ↗

— Earle Gray

#hunger #obesity #waste #food

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not. ↗

— Shauna James Ahern

#celiac #food #food-sensitivities #gluten #positivity

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver! ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#critical #entire #entire universe #essential #extreme

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#food #glutton #gluttony #obesity #the-glutton

So I enrolled at the University of North Florida, which, as you can imagine, is in north Florida. That’s about all I have to say about the school itself, as it’s so bland that if it were a food it would be oatmeal. Cold oatmeal. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#enroll #oatmeal #school #university #university-of-north-florida

If I were a professor, I’d bring my cat to class. I’d be silent until it meowed, and as soon as it did, I’d stand up and say, “Lecture’s over.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #college #funny #humor #lecture

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. ↗

— Evan D.G. Fraser

#consumption #food #necessity #people #food

Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#mental-health #nervous-energy #positive-thinking #quotes-to-live-by #violet