Quotes About Eating

In most places, for most of history, children's food has not existed as a separate category after the age of weaning.

Large numbers of adults as well as children have now become habituated to eating a version of 'kid food' over a whole lifetime: sweet, salty, undemanding to chew and swallow and heavily processed.

When parents as well as children are eating 'kid food', perhaps it's time to call not something else. 'Kid food' started off as something separate and different from normal food. Now it is close to being the new normal for all age groups. The danger is that when adults have childish tastes too, it becomes very difficult for anyone to break the cycle and learn the pleasures of real food.

Changing the way you eat is hard, but it can be done. Look at Japan.

Feeding, like eating, is a learned behaviour and the methods that most parents absorb for doing it are based on the values of former times when a child needed to be protected from scarcity rather than plenty.

Could I really be so childish that my brain would be fooled by the smaller plate? Yes, I could.

It's seldom easy to change habits, particularly those so bound up with memories of family and childhood, but, whatever our age, it looks as if eating well is surprisingly teachable skill.

Our urge to avoid eating something that makes us feel sick is often at the root of disordered eating, as we swerve away from whole categories of foods that we imagine would make us feel uneasy.

Feeding children too often can make them forget what their own hunger feels like. Large portions lead to overeating. And giving food to calm a distressed child teaches them that unhappiness is a reason to eat.

Learning how to eat better - which is quite different from going on a diet - is within anyone's grasp.

The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.

Every culture seems to have certain challenging vegetables that children find hard to love at first bite.

We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins. But this is getting ahead of ourselves. Nutrients only count when a person picks up food and eats it. How we eat - how we approach food - is what really matters.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

Many parents, especially those who themselves struggle with their weight, believe that a child is incapable of self-control when it comes to eating.

Structured meals, at which a wide range of foods is offered in a firm but loving way, are a key part of the cure for any eating disorder.

When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new food in new ways.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

At FOMC meeting breaks he would inhale doughnuts, but nevertheless remained slim.)

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.