“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.”
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”
“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”
“Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.”
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin