I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I looked at him and said, "Have you tried suffering?" He laughed out loud, as if I was joking. I wasn't joking.
Frederick WoolvertonTags: freedom diet obesity eating-disorders
Food, like your money, should be working for you!
Rita Deattrea Beckford M.D.Tags: diet health weight-loss nutrition
A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin
Benny BellamacinaTags: wisdom life love philosophy diet quote wisdom-quote
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.
Bill BrysonTags: diet health farming paleo
Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer.
Bill BrysonTags: diet trivia scarcity lobsters
What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. Their beliefs have remained imperious to an ever-growing body of evidence that refutes them while being embraced by public-health authorities and translated into precisely the wrong advice about what to eat and, more important, what not to eat if we want to maintain a healthy weight and live a long and healthy life.
Gary TaubesTags: diet government dieting obesity bad-science carbohydrates pitfalls-of-bad-thinking confirmation-bias paleo ketosis low-carb
Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. As I was told by a professor of nutrition at New York University after on of my lectures, the kind of change I'm advocating could take a lifetime to be accepted.
Gary TaubesTags: science diet government illness dieting obesity calories public-health bad-science confirmation-bias
Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: humor diet metaphor cake frosting
Wearing that personal trainer nametag doesn't make you right #AHOLE
A.O. StormTags: humor life diet funny exercise workout
The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.
Ross DouthatTags: diet vanity exercise purity yoga puritanical
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