...Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant...

~ Gary Taubes

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The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...

~ James Minter

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In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day.

~ David Sax

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He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

~ Joel Fuhrman

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The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

~ Joel Fuhrman

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