To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.