407 Quotes About Diet

Judge Walter Henderson, better known as Hatchet Henderson, is a large, imposing hulk of a man who stays in shape by adhering to a no-carbohydrate, no-fat, all-lawyer diet. Open and Shut, 2003

We eat healthy because we want to feel healthy—fantasies of living longer should not trump the importance of living stronger.

Pizza tastes better than broccoli and opinion tastes better than news.

To me, the words “food” and “guilt” didn’t belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt about the starving children in Africa.

Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.

Watching what you eat ought to include knowing what what you eat ate.

Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it.

...and flour in all forms has to be eliminated forever. Bread isn't the staff of life in these times. Rather it is the staff of death.

The restrictive eating inherent in diets treats the body as a separate, inferior part of the human being to be manipulated as desired by the mind, as though the body and mind are in an adversarial relationship.