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You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

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

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.