Fats Quotes - Page 28

• Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Civilization, Disease

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• I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Responsibility, Oil

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

  Arabella Weir

  Dieting, Goes On, Weight

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Real, Coffee

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• There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

  Ron White

  Real, Beer, Scotch

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• I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

  Olivia Wilde

  House, Too Much, Tao

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• My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

  Carnie Wilson

  Memories, Cells, Magic

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• All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Funny, Food, Illegal Things

  Quoted in Readers Digest, Dec. 1933

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• Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.

  Vir Das

  People, Weight, Care

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• I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

  Alber Elbaz

  Children, Wonder, Hypochondriac

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• You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

  Helen Fisher

  Size, Too Short, Young

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• It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Wife, Endurance

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• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Nice, Three

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.111, Random House

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• Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Mean, Sky

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

  Cathleen Schine

  Sweet, Morning, Wild Roses

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• A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Mushrooms, Two

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• I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

  Scott Adams

  Love, Valentines Day, Food

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• If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

  Scott Adams

  Food, Exercise, Weight Loss

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• Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Size, Said

  Haven Kimmel (2007). “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Boys, Oil

  "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Blue, Law

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Interesting, Bird

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• Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Boys, Mad, Laughing

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• I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Men, Self, Trying

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• For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Class, Optimism, Contentment

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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