What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and...

A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what’s going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing...

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: ‘Thou shalt not eat.’ (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn’t involved dieting, don’t you?)

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn’t know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access,...

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories,...

This body needs me to say yes to it, just as it is right now. No more singing that same old jingle of body-shame and dieter’s promised lands.

Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult members develop…”an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution...

The best diet is the one you don’t know you’re on.

good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

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...

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

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread… I only like what I’m allowed to like. I’m beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody,...

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another...

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you’re really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

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

She’d even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she’d ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets’ Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of...

Diet food is for lazy people.