Quotes About Eating

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner...

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Would you like some more pancakes?" Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to eat on the job. But I must keep up my strength.

For most of us, the idea is to get the number of calories it takes to maintain weight (or fewer, if we're trying to lose), along with a good balance of nutrients. And this is easy: As long as your diet isn't based on junk food, almost any diet that supplies you with enough calories will also supply you with adequate nutrition.

So the idea is to eat food that fills you up(and provides you with nutrients) without giving you more calories than you need. One way to make sure of that is to eat food with low caloric density, and this is less complicated than it sounds-believe me.

The evidence overwhelmingly supports a more traditional diet-what I'm calling sane eating-in place of the modern American diet.

Base your preferred diet on any traditional eating style you like; the point is that once you get into the habit of eating sanely, it becomes second nature.

You shouldn't eat "unlimited" amounts of grains, as you would other plants, but eating grains several times a day is fine. -- In any case, eat far fewer carbohydrates; they are all treats, not off limits but to be eaten only occasionally (and with gusto).

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

Saturated fat, for instance, is bad when eaten with carbohydrates, but when eaten alone, not so much.

The quality of our diet matters most.

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That's why weight and metabolism are not math problems. The quality of the food you eat matters much more than the quantity.

When we combine foods that are high in nutrients, we naturally eat less, even with hungry fat cells. The key here is that nutrient-dense foods (real whole foods) are satisfying, while processed empty foods (nutrient-poor foods) are less satisfying, even though they may contain more calories! This

In other words, it is not how much you eat but what you eat that controls the metabolic switches.

Il cibo nella sua forma migliore porta con sé memorie e riflessioni che vanno oltre il nutrimento e connette le persone che lo raccolgono alla terra da cui lo prendono, rendendo sacro il semplice atto di mangiare.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.