Quotes About Consumption

Serving Sizes: 1 cup raw leafy vegetables ½ cup raw or cooked nonleafy vegetables ½ cup vegetable juice ¼ cup dried mushrooms Daily Recommendation: 2 servings per day

According to the current U.S. Department of Agriculture database, bananas don't even make the list of the top-thousand foods with the highest levels of potassium; in fact, they come in at number 1,611, right after Reese's Pieces.27 You'd have to eat a dozen bananas a day just to get the bare minimum recommended amount of potassium.

In smoothie form, you can drink fruits and vegetables at about two cups a minute—ten times faster than it might take to eat fruits and vegetables in solid form.

At the time of the American Revolution, we consumed about an estimated four pounds of sugar per person per year.1575 Now, we may each average more than fifty pounds annually.1576 That's the equivalent of about seventeen teaspoons of added sugars every day.

On average, those who eat low-energy-density diets consume hundreds of fewer calories, yet they eat significantly more food, about three-quarters of a pound more a day.

Grapes, barley, and potatoes are best eaten in their nondistilled form, and Johnnie Walker is no substitute

The Exercise "Myth" When trying to lose weight, which is more important: diet or exercise? A national survey found that a "vast majority" of Americans, seven out of ten, believe that food and beverage consumption and physical activity are equally important when it comes to weight loss. About two out of ten favored exercise, and only about one in ten chose diet.3080 The vast majority of Americans are wrong.

Unless it's specifically labeled Ceylon cinnamon, a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon even a few times a week may be too much for small children, and a daily teaspoon would exceed the tolerable upper safety limit for adults.111

Serving Sizes: 1 medium-sized fruit 1 cup cut-up fruit ¼ cup dried fruit Daily Recommendation: 3 servings per day

The trillion-dollar processed food industry uses dirt-cheap added salt and sugar to sell us their junk.57 That's why it's not easy avoiding sodium on the typical American diet, since three-quarters of salt comes from processed foods rather than a saltshaker.58

This may help explain why sugary drinks have been blamed as perhaps the single largest driver of the obesity epidemic,4856 accounting for at least one-fifth of the weight gained between 1977 and 2007 in the United States.4857 By the year 2000, Americans were drinking an estimated 190 calories a day of sweetened beverages.4858

The worst snacks, according to national snacking guidelines from around the world, are snacks that are sugary, fatty, or salty.

We eat almost as if the future doesn't matter.

demonstrated that regardless of how we boost the amount of time food is in our mouths, it can result in lower caloric intake.

of liver disease in countries where pork is more popular? It appears so. The relationship between national per capita pork consumption and deaths from liver disease correlates as tightly as per capita alcohol consumption and liver fatalities. Each pork chop consumed per capita

you had two people eating the same number of calories, it appears the person eating more meat would, on average, gain significantly more weight.

The four largest calorie contributors in the American diet are (1) refined grains, (2) added fats, (3) meat, and (4) added sugars.

Today, thanks to platform technologies, profit is wrought as much by the dismantling of mental resources as it is by the dismantling of natural resources. We have learned to harvest the solitude of others. Profiteers produce social grooming technologies, and agents of distraction swarm around us. Solitude is consumed and depleted as surely as Brazilian rainforests are toppled and the tar sands of Alberta are sucked dry.

The starting point of the 2014 BIS report is the main theme of the present book: We are not in a typical cyclical downturn, but have reached the culmination of a long buildup of cycles. Each recovery since 1945 has added more debt, increasing carrying charges that divert spending away from current goods and services (debt deflation, as Chapter 8 has discussed).

Once you cross a certain threshold, money doesn't get you more happiness. Our main concern is that if you have growth which is blind, fed by people's growing consumption, it's not really sustainable. What we are trying to do in our own little context is see what pattern of growth will be sustainable and desirable." Fellow Traveler The secretary introduces me to another government minister, a fortyish gentleman who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

If the only advantage of affluence were the ability to buy yachts, sports cars, and fancy vacations, inequalities

Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

red meat that has been processed into bacon, bologna, hot dogs, sandwich meats, and other products with added salt is best avoided altogether.