It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five...

While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well....

The power to assimilate crude inorganic matter as it is found in the soil, and convert it into living protoplasm and other organic substances, or to use such substances in performing physiological function, does not...

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn’t be eating anything that has a label on it!

I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain’t going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got...

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

Food, like your money, should be working for you!

First dentistry was painless.Then bicycles were chainless,Carriages were horseless,And many laws enforceless.Next cookery was fireless,Telegraphy was wireless,Cigars were nicotineless,And coffee caffeineless.Soon oranges were seedless,The putting green was weedless,The college boy was hatless,The proper diet fatless.New...

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this...

There’s no doubt that your genes contain very important information, but 65% of the influence can be attributed to the environment and your lifestyle – they determine whether your unfortunate genes come to expression. Hello!...

I hate France. It’s like the whole country’s on a diet

I’m a big believer in cooking your own meals. It makes it much easier not only to ensure that you eat fresh foods but also to follow the second rule of eating (see previous chapter),...

Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur’s back. ‘Dude!’ the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson’s weight. ‘Do the words...

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Can you really drop up to 11 pounds from your body (and belly) in just 7 days (and keep losing it at a record pace for weeks to come)? Believe it or not…the answer is...

Self-help isn’t really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We’d like to be that someone.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

The reason we have such a difficult time losing weight permanently is not because we are making bad choices, but because we are not stopping our automatic subconscious programmed behaviors in their tracks.

Tout est question d’équilibre

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

allergies,” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could’ve strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that...

I strongly believe that a very good way to start on the Warrior Diet is by following the diet elements first. This alone will probably do the job. Moreover, it may stimulate even sedentary people...

Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of...

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

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

The Brandy Diet is one of my personal favourites – you don’t lose any weight, but if you drink enough of the stuff then you neither care what you look like nor what people think...

Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don’t allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies . . . I’m not asking you to cut people out of...

You must see the change you wish to be in the world.

75% Eats 25% Feats

In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. It was hoped...

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

Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a...

Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns of animals that he hunts, in order for us to...

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is...

We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters....

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don’t eat! Who knew?

No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

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

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a...

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.

The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.

We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called “imperfect” female body with absolute pleasure — say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier...

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, ‘well, it tastes good’.Most...

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.