Wilbur Olin Atwater Quotes

• It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

  Wilbur Olin Atwater

  Sweet, Health, Exercise

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• The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

  Wilbur Olin Atwater

  Inspirational, Doe, Maxims

  Wilbur Olin Atwater (1894). “Foods: nutritive value and cost”, p.20

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