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“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”

“Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.”

Body Wall Fats Slips Nutrients Intestines

Author:Michael F. Jacobson

“At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.”

Heart Done Body Four Minutes Training Rate Eight Fats Seconds Intensity Roof Heart Rate

Author:Arjun Rampal

“In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.”

Ifs Firsts Body Eye Certain Realizing Ready Weight Fats Developing Related Milk Reserves Runners Feeding Seventies Percentages Deposits Fetus Hovering Calcium Body Weight

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.”

“In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Matter Body Care Beautiful Actors Don't Care Ugly Fats Performers Charisma

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat.”

Thinking Men Way Whole Body Bigs Beautiful Guy Careers Taught Planets Basketball Percent Sexy Fats Body Fat

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!”

Needs Made Book Self Body Realizing Judging Self Love Fats Uplifting Hips Voyages

Author:Hillary Carlip

“it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.”

Body Hate Weight Fats

Book:An Accidental Autobiography

Source: An Accidental Autobiography

“There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins won't be blacklisted because they are bankable stars. In the second place, if you are a woman, the only things you're going to be blacklisted for in Hollywood are body fat and aging.”

Ifs Firsts Body Stars Walks Hollywood Aging Entertainment Fats Bullshit Second Place Money Talks Entertainment Business Body Fat

Author:Janeane Garofalo