“For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.” YearsSelfFeltLosesHalfIssuesWorstHairEatingWeightDestructiveAnorexiaSelf Destructive Author:Renee Olstead
“As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.” MeanImportantPlayAmericaPresidentIssuesFashionEatingBlameDesignerDisorderCouncilEating DisorderFashion DesignerImportant Issues Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness” PeopleTryingCoursesNamesRoomsIssuesCallingEatingEmptinessGarbageCookiesGrindCover UpsBingeBinge EatingGarbage Disposal Author:Sark
“How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.” IfsHoursIssuesReturnEatingDisappearSensitivitySymptomsHealth IssuesGluten Author:Kris Carr
“One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.” PeopleFeelsBodyPowerfulIssuesOur LivesEatingAreasRefuseYour BodyPowerlessEmpoweredPrimal Author:Michael Pollan
“The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.” PeopleIdeasProblemPrinciplesIssuesAmountEatingHarderComplicatedMealsGood IdeasGrazingInsulin Author:Michael Pollan
“When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.” PeopleKnowsLooksRealSometimesStatesProblemSpiritualLevelsUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesIssuesStupidExerciseEatingSolutionsBunchNutritionStupid PeopleObesityReal ProblemsMetabolismSpiritual Work Author:Marianne Williamson
“It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time.” PeopleNeedsLooksTodayTogetherOpportunityForceCommunityIssuesGroupsEatingTraditionBasesPreparationOur TimeAddressesGlobesConsistencySoupOur CommunityCultivationIntersections Author:Sam Kass
“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.” PeopleKnowsAnimalIssuesPiecesAmountSixEatingWelfareMeatThrowingEfficientCaloriesAnimal WelfareRecyclingThrowing AwayWastefulness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'” ThinkingHumansBigsChristSimpleIssuesRightsEatingGardenHuman RightsPunishmentAwfulApplesCommandmentsBackwardsEdenGarden Of Eden Author:Terry Pratchett
“Many people will first be attracted to veganism for their health but find themselves far more open to learning about the animal issues when they don't have to block them out three times a day in order to enjoy eating. Then once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back. Come for the body, stay for the soul.” PeopleFirstsSoulHardBodyOrderThreeEnjoyForgetAnimalIssuesEatingBlockThree TimesVeganism Author:Karen Dawn
“Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldWholeChoicesIssuesProductsEatingConsumersMeatFurGmosContentiousGmo Foods Author:Billy Corgan
“Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.” GivingChildrenBigsKidsIssuesDrugEatingImpactBig Impact Author:Ziggy Marley
“It's so important that people get tested and find out what they're allergic to, because they might be struggling with their weight or health issues and not realize that they're actually just allergic to the food they're eating.” PeopleImportantMightRealizingStruggleIssuesEatingWeightTestedAllergicHealth Issues Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.” WayChoicesLanguageAttitudeCompassionTeachIssuesCommunicationHabitHealthyEatingComfortingLiberatingNonviolent CommunicationHealthy EatingCompassion For Others Author:Judith Hanson Lasater
“Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.” ShouldHumansCoursesAnimalKnownIssuesSubjectsEatingTestsEntertainmentAlcoholRationalMeatEggsEthicalHoneyClothingsUsersCigaretteAlcoholicsHeroinDairySmokersEating Animals Author:Gary Yourofsky
“I think a lot of people get into what they're eating. Yes, it's important, but at some point, let's think about what we're feeling. It can become a control issue to control everything that you're eating and the exercise that you're doing. I think it's good to do a bit of everything, but to just notice how you're feeling when you wake up in the morning.” PeopleThinkingImportantFeelingsBitsMorningIssuesExerciseEatingWake UpControl Issues Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.” FeelsYoungGirlRolesIssuesHealthyEatingModelsHeyMealsRole Models Author:Demi Lovato
“The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.” StillsEndsSelfFactsSeemsKidsMotherParentTermCan DoLosesTalkingIssuesEatingDaughterNegativeWeightWesternHeyChineseTherapyDisorderContrastEating DisorderUnimaginableWesternersTiptoesFatty Book:Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother