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The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual...

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When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or des...

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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive ide...

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my ...

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...

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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines f...

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I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I...

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The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the mol...

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Antonio GramsciSelections from the Prison Notebooks

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gat...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet l...

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I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal product...

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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the c...

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A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. Fo...

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During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal...

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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

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Maggie StiefvaterLament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.