One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.
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Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.
I really believe that people don't have to eat healthy; they just have to know what they are eating, and then they'll eat better. That is really the movement we are behind.
An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.