Diets Quotes - Page 7

• Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Long, People

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• Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

  Andrew Weil

  Men, Bones, Enough

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

  Portia de Rossi

  Food, Kids, Body Weight

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• To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fitness, Art, Food

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• There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

  Chelsea Cain

  People, Killing

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• You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female." "McNab?" Eve said. "Yes, sir." "Shut up." "It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple." "A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.

  Nora Roberts

  Couple, Land, Silence

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• I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Emotional, Emotional Health

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.574, Simon and Schuster

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• Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

  Quentin Crisp

  Egomaniacs, Share, Starvation

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• Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

  Rick Riordan

  Coke, Beverages, Horror

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• It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Two, Chocolate, Would Be

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Men, Dolphins

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• People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

  Danielle Steel

  Girl, Crazy, Real

  Danielle Steel (2010). “Big Girl”, p.378, Random House

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• He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Gold, Bars, Half

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• 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 times as much viatmin C as the average person today.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, People, Typical

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.66, Random House

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• I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

  Joe Hill

  Powerful, Adventure, Snakes

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• Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cake, Condescending, Overbearing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.38, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Diet food is for lazy people.

  Ice T

  Lazy People, People, Lazy

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• Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

  Kathy Reichs

  Ice, Blue, Kitchen

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• 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 "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Warrior, Two

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.441, Penguin UK

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• She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.

  Jenny Downham

  Crisis, Needed

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.174, Random House

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• I have written the only diet book that I believe needs to exist, and here it is: CHAPTER ONE: Eat a bit less. CHAPTER TWO: Move about a bit more. THE END.

  Miranda Hart

  Believe, Moving, Book

  Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

  David Levithan

  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Shields

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Grapes

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Food, Air

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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