A need is something that is required to keep you alive. A want is something that you think is required to make or keep you happy.

Fortunately, some people eat a lot or drink only on special occasions. Unfortunately, they see every—or almost every—day of their lives as a special occasion.

The length of the life of the consumer of the product is, to the vast majority of food manufacturers, not nearly as important as the product’s shelf life.

Not knowing that eating something we have just eaten is bad for our health is in some cases good for our health.

All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.

Some people do not really hate junk food. They merely love themselves a lot.

We are so used to eating unhealthy food that we deem obsessed with health people who watch what they eat.

Being poor or broke is made to seem worse than it is by the myth that we need to eat three meals a day.

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.