“Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.”
Adelle Davis
“Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .”
“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are”
“To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.”
“If this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but not health”
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”
“A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.”
Benjamin Franklin
