Nutritionism Quotes & Sayings

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book." — Daniel Clowes

If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from — Jason Aites

The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another ... and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as
well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris. — Michael Pollan

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. — Jonah Lehrer

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near. — Mary Gardiner Brainard

Did she always have something to read in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at anything else? — Jonathan Safran Foer

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. — John L. Lewis

The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather
all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try. — Michael Pollan

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism - its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. — Michael Pollan

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes. — Shreya Ghoshal

I just wanted it to be American. — Harmony Korine

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs. — Michael Pollan

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts. — Donnie Yen

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman

With the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. France. — Anthony Doerr

Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food but cocreators of the systems that feed us. Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience and "value" or they can nourish a food chain organized around values
values like quality and health. Yes, shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon as you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also as a kind of vote
a vote for health in the largest sense
food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize. — Michael Pollan

I couldn't wait to see then again, beautiful things. Extraordinary. — Daniel Handler

I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe. — Ricky Schroder

He would have to ask questions constantly, take nothing for granted. There would be so many opportunities to miss the obvious, so many chances to misunderstand, so many ways of taking the wrong path. 11 — Isaac Asimov