| #37: | People choose a WORSE diet when a healthy option is offered. NY Times (4/6): http://bit.ly/9VQBs - An interesting human perception defect. |
| #39: | LA Times: "Study of diets shows what truly counts: calories" (2/26) http://bit.ly/kIUwl - Duh! To lose weight, energy use must exceed input. |
| #67: | WSJ: "The Psychology of Overeating" http://bit.ly/4CP7l - We want sugar, salt and fat, and the food industry is eager to sell it to us. |
| #74: | Green Eggs & Ham: 1) I will not eat it. 2) I'll try it, just to show I'm open-minded. 3) Hey, this is good! 4) Take it away, I'll kill you! |
| #80: | Common addictions: drugs, alcohol, cigs, caffeine, TV, video games, music, shopping, sports, sex, porn, religion, travel, food, love... |
| #99: | Avoid any food with "healthy" or "nutritious" on the label. It's probably highly processed and does little good for your body. |
| #145: | Any food that is unpalatable at a certain temperature (warm ice cream, cold beef stew, etc.) probably isn't good for you anyway. |
| #146: | Cooking changes the chemical composition of some food, making it more digestible, but the temperature it is served at is irrelevant. |
| #206: | Fruit is a plant's seed distribution system. Animals eat the fruit and sh*t the seeds.... So how do you explain the avocado? |
| #249: | The beverage industry thrives because its markup is huge: 2 cents worth of ingredients become a $2 soft drink. No real food can beat that. |
| #260: | A buffet is the most existential form of dining. Even if you eat together, you must choose alone. |
| #261: | Have you noticed that when you eat a lot, you get hungry QUICKER? I just ate a big buffet, and three hours later I'm starved! |
| #263: | Never get angry. It is a universally destructive emotion. It eats you up inside while getting poor results outside. |
| #313: | Bad faith, practiced over time, eats you up inside and twists you into a scheming villain in a black hat with a cackling laugh. Really! |
| #455: | Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll deplete the local fisheries. - (Retweeeted on 2/13/10) |
| #457: | The only essentials in life are food, protection from weather, internet access and a medical plan. Everything else is negotiable. |
| #481: | The original purpose of taste was to guide our ancestors to the most nutritious food. It has no meaning other than that. |
| #488: | The central issue in controlling your weight: Eat only when you're hungry. |
| #489: | Real hunger comes from a drop in blood sugar. False hunger is a psychological desire for food without the drop. You have to distinguish. |
| #490: | The relentless commercial and social pressure is to eat, eat, eat. You have to resist and learn to eat just enough to make hunger go away. |
| #529: | "Quality" can be defined as that which best fulfills the original purpose of the product. E.g. the original purpose of food is nutrition. |
| #571: | The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree. It relies on animals eating the apple for seed distribution. (There's a metaphor there.) |
| #573: | If you eat raw, uncooked vegetables, you might as well be eating sand. Very little of it digests. |
| #574: | Humans evolved to eat cooked foods. Cooking is part of our digestive process, like the four stomachs of a cow. |
| #684: | When not just any caffeine delivery system will do, you need Pepsi Max "The first diet cola for men." Alas, it's totally gay! |
| #715: | Frito Lay is doing its part to help the unemployed by offering 20% more in specially marked packages of its snack food products. How noble! |
| #731: | After 24 hours in Athens, I have yet to find a single chain restaurant (McDonalds, etc). What kind of Commie place is this? HOW WILL I EAT? |
| #737: | Just had a "high density protein shake" (aka "milk"). A handy survival food. If it's enough to sustain a calf, it's good enough for me! |
| #742: | Ah, relief! Found a big Carrefour supermarket near Piraeus. I can eat again! |
| #780: | I just spent 4 days in Athens for €140 - for EVERYTHING: food, lodging ground transportation. Thank hostels and public transit. |
| #785: | "How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains" NY Times (6/23) http://bit.ly/11Kp2x - Sugar, fat and salt tap into the brain's reward system. |
| #791: | Strange phenomenon: The more I eat, the more quickly and intensely I get hungry. If I eat less it seems to last me longer. |
| #821: | After 3 days on an expense account (free food) all food is reprehensible to me. Just want a nice roll and a glass of water. |
| #878: | Whole Foods knows the recipe for profit: You put "organic" or "natural" on something and the suckers will pay twice as much. |
| #879: | Whole Foods sells adjectives: "stone ground", "spring fed", "organic", "free range", etc., and people will pay big money for those words. |
| #930: | Wyoming has a wild ungulate problem. There are far too many! Fortunately, cars eat ungulates. |
| #943: | As soon as people have enough food, they start inventing new ways to make food more complicated. |
| #950: | People will obsess over some trivial contributor to health-like organic food-while ignoring their own bad habits that will really kill them. |
| #961: | A low-fat diet and moderate exercise can help you live longer, but super-nutrition or hyper-exercise don't do anything more. |
| #962: | Do health food advocates and Olympic athletes live any longer than normal active, healthy people? Their obituaries suggest no. |
| #963: | I propose that shopping at health food stores, buying organic produce and paying twice as much for food has zero effect on your longevity. |
| #1055: | If your comfort food was JUST NOT EATING, you could probably lose a lot of weight! |
| #1141: | In food, sex and all other passions, the greatest pleasure is in the first bite. It is a moment that can never be regained. |
| #1189: | "Eat like a horse" makes no sense, because horses eat only hay. Likewise, "sweat like a pig" since pigs don't sweat! |
| #1214: | I see an alarming trend in British visitors, who feel they must embrace American "wastage" (wasting food, etc). We're not all like that! |
| #1239: | I was once a televised buffet expert - a self-styled "buffologist" (or "buffoon"). Was on CNN and the Food Channel. - #vegas |
| #1242: | If you're trying to lose weight, STAY OUT OF LAS VEGAS! -- Keep Out! No Trespassing! Verboten! - #dieting |
| #1258: | Your first defense against junk food is in the shopping phase. Just don't buy it, because if you do you're going to eat it. |
| #1259: | If you must buy junk food, never buy the industrial-size package. You'll eat it all! Buy the smallest size available so that's all you eat. |
| #1281: | An unhealthy diet of music is playing the same songs over and over. A better mix is the ambient music all around you that you don't control. |
| #1303: | Stopping for fast food in Duluth, Glenn feels like he is totally living in the movie "Fargo" -- Don't ya know! |
| #1350: | An old "TV Nation" segment was about selling Avon products in the Amazon, to people who could barely afford to eat. That's luxury marketing! |
| #1353: | Selling people things they don't need will eat you up over time. It will make you money but steal your soul. |
| #1358: | Essentials of Life: 1) food, 2) safe place to sleep, 3) computer w internet, 4) place to work w A/C power, 5) medical plan. |
| #1360: | There's a way to deal with food you already have but know you shouldn't be eating: Throw it away! Preferably where you can't get it back. |
| #1380: | You may think the necessities of life are "food, shelter and clothing" but the latter two are only required in cold climates. |
| #1405: | Wisdom overheard in Bar Harbor: "Eating take so much time. We could see a lot more if only we didn't spend so much time eating." |
| #1408: | Wisdom overheard from tourists: "Eating takes so much time. We could see a lot more if we didn't spend so much time eating." |
| #1420: | Carbonation corrodes teeth, more so than sugar. If you bathe your teeth in soda every day--even diet--you will eventually start losing them. |
| #1467: | Wine and cheese are the junk food of the Middle Ages. They've got nothing to offer the body except carbs. |
| #1482: | Never trust any foodstuff with a "y" at the end: "buttery", "chocolatey", etc. It's a product of chemical engineering! |
| #1516: | I'm never going to eat ground beef again! NY Times: http://bit.ly/latmeat "Trail of E. Coli Shows Flaws in Inspection of Ground Beef" |
| #1532: | NY Times: "Rules to Eat By" http://bit.ly/4pdH6e - Culture has a lot to teach us about food and nutrition. |
| #1533: | "If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry." -- Emma Fogt, via NY Times food rules http://bit.ly/gwcy3 |
| #1540: | "Don't eat anything you aren't willing to kill yourself." -- Lorene Lavora, via NY Times food rules http://bit.ly/gwcy3 |
| #1542: | New Photo Album: "Meal, Ready to Eat" http://bit.ly/gi6gx - A culinary adventure! |
| #1631: | What's most offensive about dessert is the sense of entitlement. You expect a reward for eating your meal! |
| #1722: | Here's today's script: You're thankful for X, Y & Z. You pray for our troops overseas. You say "God Bless America!" Now eat. |
| #1763: | "Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean."... Seriously, dude, keep it lean. Dump the wife! |
| #1836: | DO NOT EAT THE FRESHNESS PAK. (In fact, best not to eat the product the Freshness Pak came with.) |
| #1839: | DO NOT EAT THE FRESHNESS PAK. (In fact, best not to eat the alleged food product the Freshness Pak came with.) |
| #1860: | If the Twinkie had been around for 5000 years, people would discern fine gradations in it, like wine and cheese. Alas, it's still junk food. |
| #1911: | On New Years Eve in Madrid, in a central plaza, you are supposed to eat 12 grapes as 12 bells toll at midnight. Then they release the bulls. |
| #1974: | Thank you, marketing geniuses at Taco Bell, for your late night "Fourth Meal". Yet another chance to eat more than we need! |
| #1982: | Coca-Cola and Frito-Lay are not food companies but drug companies, serving our non-nutritive addiction to sugar, fat, salt and caffeine. |
| #1995: | If a food normally eaten hot is unpalatable when cold, or vice versa, it's probably not something you should be eating anyway. |
| #1997: | Of all the snack food products, the most disgusting is the Pringle, processed potato paste sold in a tennis ball can to those with no taste. |
| #1998: | Has Iams ever considered making food for humans? Imagine: complete and balanced nutrition in bland pellets you eat every day. Works for me! |
| #2054: | Pepperidge Farm™ choc chip cookies: $2.50. Good price but: 140 calories x 8 cookies (cuz I'll eat em all!) = 1120 cals. No deal, Wal-Mart™! |
| #2063: | Most of what is called "food" in modern mass marketing is really "pseudo food", enticing consumption but providing little nutrition. |
| #2078: | We all know about food obesity, but what about entertainment obesity? With a constant diet of empty stimulation, the brain turns flabby. |
| #2128: | Humor is the alcohol of life. A little of it can loosen people up, but a steady diet of the stuff is just another destructive addiction. |
| #2137: | Life is like a great buffet of every food you crave. Will you make the the right nutritional choices or simply pig out? |
| #2143: | So which is the better deal on a snack food product: the big bag or the small bag? Photo: http://bit.ly/bHgl2w |
| #2152: | "Nothing in this world is truly vegan." (via @aubynr) How true! There are no simple guilt-free policies (in diet or life). |
| #2165: | If I were to refrain from eating meat, I would only care about the mammals, 'cuz I can relate to those guys. Other phyla are open game. Yum! |
| #2210: | Once you go vegan, gluton-free, organic, environmentally conscious, exploitation-free... honestly, what are you going to eat? |
| #2222: | Parenting 101: If you make your house comfortable and inviting, all the kids in the neighborhood will hang out there and EAT YOUR FOOD. |
| #2225: | Take everything you eat all day, throw it into a blender, purée, then drink. That's the nutrition your body is getting. |
| #2322: | Forest Shut Down By County Health Dept. - Cites Unhealthy Practices: Bears Shitting In Woods, Animals Eating Uncooked Meat, Rotting Refuse |
| #2324: | Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll deplete the local fisheries. |
| #2354: | I only have a problem with temptation that's right in front of me. A bag of chips in the car with me will be eaten, but not if I toss them. |
| #2403: | "When food is used for purposes other than sustenance, it has truly lost its value." @conformer |
| #2406: | There is no food item or consumer product that isn't tainted by some form of animal or human abuse. You just have to look deep enough. |
| #2464: | Just discovered an exciting new food source: "Buffet by the Pound" http://bit.ly/cijHEH (Homeless by Choice Blog) |
| #2652: | Beware of any edible item with "y" at the end: chocolaty, buttery, cheesy. It is a product of chemical engineering and not actual food. |
| #2684: | Economic activity — buying, selling and scams related thereto — come as naturally to the human as breathing, eating and sex. |
| #2790: | The "quality" of a product is the degree to which it accomplishes the purpose for which it was intended. E.g. for food: nutrition. |
| #2798: | One of the ways people try to declare their identity is by making up dietary restrictions for themselves. Not the same as real identity. |
| #2799: | Everyone has dreams. Hers is to become the world's fattest woman. http://bit.ly/b9W9tO via @Sheamus. There's a dietary identity for you! |
| #2809: | When buying candy or snack foods, your worse value is always the bigger package. (Because you'll eat it all!) |
| #2859: | Take any food you crave. First helping: fantastic! 2nd: good. 3rd: okay. 4th: tedious. 5th: gross! Same applies to every attraction. |
| #2889: | There is no greater gastronomic and coronary hazard than "All You Can Eat". |
| #2893: | Fruit is a plant's seed distribution strategy. Animals eat the fruit and shit the seeds. So how, then, do we explain the avocado? |
| #2896: | Let us honor the Ancient Ones, our elders who came upon this land and built great monuments to the gods of Fast Food and Retail Sales. |
| #2958: | In food, sex, travel, drugs or any other stimulation, you'll never get the same high again. The thrill always fades with repetition. |
| #2960: | What is a food court? Isn't that where foods are judged fairly based only on the evidence? Why, then, can't I find anything edible here? |
| #3016: | Taste — be it for food, fashion, music or sex — is always an illusion. It is the promise of something more than what you actually get. |
| #3111: | Haggis is good, but if you were Scottish and had to eat it every day I imagine you'd get pretty tired of it. |
| #3151: | It's fortunate that Wal-Mart provides electric "fat carts" for their morbidly obese customers, because how else could they shop for food? |
| #3178: | Easiest rule for weight loss (and the hardest!): Eat only when you're truly hungry, then stop as soon as the hunger goes away. |
| #3239: | On my bucket list: Become immortalized as the icon image of a fast food restaurant chain (like Col. Sanders or Wendy). |
| #3247: | There's a difference between food that tastes good and food that makes you feel good. For your health (in all things), listen to the latter. |
| #3254: | Technically, coffee is not "food" and does not constitute "breakfast". |
| #3295: | Good food is not just what tastes good but what makes you feel good afterwards. |
| #3429: | The best part of the candybar is the first bite. After that the experience deteriorates rapidly, but you keep eating anyway. |
| #3440: | There's no great satisfaction in having more food than you can eat or more friends than you can reasonably communicate with. |
| #3447: | You can defeat the glutton within you by THROWING THE FOOD OUT as soon as peak satisfaction is reached. |
| #3478: | Don't believe Frito Lay™ and Coca-Cola™ are food companies. They are chemical engineering companies — and they got your number! |
| #3501: | You need: food, medical care, a safe place to sleep, community with others and a meaningful mission. Almost every other "need" is imaginary. |
| #3511: | It is human nature to stockpile resources (food, tools, etc) for future lean times, but in an environment of plenty it becomes pathological. |
| #3640: | Dear pigs at the State Fair: Regardless whether you win or lose, they're still gonna eat you. |
| #3741: | NEW! At your supermarket now! Junk Food Throwback Editions. Made with REAL sugar, REAL fat and REAL salt! |
| #3784: | If you don't take control of your obligations and learn to turn most of them away, they will grow out of control and eat you alive. |
| #3826: | RT @BadDalaiLama: Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll deplete the local fisheries. |