#can at least one schizophrenic character in media have a good time and be part of the main crew and have friends and not be bad actually

[hufflpuffin]

i simply want Sam to survive season 1 and not turn into a villain is that too much to ask

[talenlee]

Story Pile: Arcane, Season 1

Here’s a little bit of a trivia tidbit about how I write these articles. Typically speaking I will write an outline, just words, like, intro, image, spoiler warning, more, point 1, point 2, point 3, conclusion, and then I’ll fill in what I think are the starts of those points, then flesh them out and if a direction shows up I’ll come back to rearrange stuff, you know, very piece by piece, very grown. The introduction is typically the last thing I write, and that’s because by that point I have all the other stuff I want to set up already in place.

I didn’t manage that for Arcane season 1. I just started to talk and suddenly I had 1500 words down. This show whips, come listen to me talk about it.

Spoiler Warning, I talk about some events from later in the season in a vague way.

Content warning, mostly the stuff in this series is pretty normal in-genre nastiness but there’s some implied pet death, and some surprisingly detailed drug administration.

Let’s pretend for a moment you’re looking into my opinion of Arcane without actually knowing anything about the story of it. It’s a story about a huge city called Piltover with its underclass poor zone called Zaun, or rather, two cities, one called Piltover and one called Zaun, which sucks, because despite the fact Piltover thinks they’re the same city, one of those areas is for rich people made rich by the process of Capitalism and the other area is full of poor people who are processed by Capitalism. One day, a smartypants boy in Piltover created The Great Economic Disparitor Machine and then Piltover’s Capitalism kicked into overdrive and some gyres widened and centers failed to hold.

This is a story told by following the lives of people involved in these processes as they move from one part of the city to another. Jayce the willed worrier, moves from a class-bound position of factory labor to political power. Caitlyn, an upper class twit, tries to do some kind of public good by becoming a cop, which she at least would believe is how it works. Jinx, a schizophrenic and also just the best, is ejected from a family that seeks to preserve a status quo into a family that seeks to destroy it. Vi, also the best, moves from a position of helpless struggle to a position to enact the will of the state in pursuit of order, which for her is framed as a story of revenge.

I like to think of the story of Arcane season 1 as being a pair of trains on their tracks, barely getting near one another, until the moment the tracks curve and suddenly those trains crash into one another head-on, with a glorious explosion. There’s a ramping tension that runs through the whole story that gets clocked up very slowly. After all, you have to know what Zaun and Piltover are before you can know that they hate one another. Arcane uses character relationships to explain this story — specifically the way that every pair of characters who have a relationship can be seen as a relationship of disagreement. Jayce and Caitlyn don’t agree about who should be directly involved in danger, Jinx and Vi don’t agree about Jinx’s worth, Silco and Vander don’t agree about how to protect Zaun, and Vi and Caitlyn don’t agree about whose bed they should bang in.

(They’re not banging)

(But they should be)

And hey, you may be thinking, Talen, you know about videogames, how valid is this to the videogames? Are the videogames like this? Is this, for lack of a better word, canon?

And the answer to that is: It doesn’t matter.

League of Legends is the text this text is paratextual to (drink). But at the same time, League of Legends is a fascinating media empire in that at its very, deeply hidden, multi-layered heart, League of Legends is a mod. Deep down under it all, League of Legends started its life as an attempt to build a standalone version of Defense of the Ancients, which was, itself, a mod for Warcraft III. The thread of derivation can be pursued but the point is that it’s very evident when you trace the history of it that League of Legends was not a coherent world created from the top down with a distinct sense of things like economics and narrative but instead is much more focused on the vibes of individual characters. League of Legends is an accumulation of ‘look at my OCs’ then the interconnected mesh of concept space that those OCs need to exist.

A long time ago, someone said to me – or I read it in an article, you don’t care – that you can’t make a MOBA game, they have to be grown. It feels that’s very true when you consider the way League of Legends, one of the successful ones work; characters exist as these acretions of vibes and narrative pieces that then have to be asked to work in conjunction. Skins can wildly transform what a character is and the needs and demands of the world they’re in and it works because they’re not, primarily, characters from a universe with a story but instead OCs built around a vibe. They are, fundamentally, a style before they are a character.

None of this is a complaint, of course, because by having these robust senses of style, the characters can then be reinterpreted and moved into their own narrative space like you see here in Arcane and as long as the style maintains, the narrative holds. Were Jinx and Vi sisters before this series happened? Maybe. It didn’t matter. Are the other possible threads of story, like Warwick being Vi’s adopted father, ‘true’ to League of Legends? Doesn’t matter. The point is, the style holds, the characters feel true, if you can express them in their style.

That means that Caitlyn is stuffy and kinda gay, Vi is lairy and kinda gay, Ekko is hiphop and kinda gay, Jayce sucks and is kinda painfully straight, and as long as all these elements are expressed well in how the characters behave, then it doesn’t matter about the truth of any greater narrative to a pre-existing ‘canon.’ It’s beautiful, honestly, to enjoy such a blistering competence.

It’s kinda a funny comparison because I imagine a lot of people will sneer about positively invoking it but it feels like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first big victory lap, The Avengers. The fact that Arcane exists is one thing, but the fact it exists and it’s so good is even more remarkable. I love how it looks, with this deliberate attempt at specific stylisation. The texturing on the characters and the world reminds me of Dishonored and of course I’m going to mark out hard for anything that reminds me enough of Dishonored but it’s not just because I’m easy. It’s beautiful because the pursuit of an animation style that is specifically a style means you’re not trapped under the burden of hyper-realism or a pursuit of it when you’re also trying to present the completely fantastic and ridiculous.

Make no mistake, this story wants to focus on the ridiculous plenty of times. One of the main characters in the story, the one who kind of represents a sort of sense of sadness at the loss of an exploitative stability’s best opportunities, is an aged Yordle, which is what League of Legends made up because the word Goblin was silly. Putting a character of his size in a shot with a full grown human adult just fundamentally looks odd if you’re realistic, but the fact he’s able to be a walking cartoon that has the same aesthetic style as the full size people he hangs near means you don’t notice that, you don’t consider the way that infrastructure is rarely built to handle him.

How does this guy reach doorknobs?

The aesthetics and style don’t always work together perfectly. There’s a famous lovemaking scene that people talk about as being cringe. I don’t feel that strongly about it, but I can understand why it feels a bit silly to others. Similarly, the need of the story type to have these highly emotional moments means that when the story needs a human being to kill off in the name of the Machine That Wants To Eat Blood, and it can’t use another one of the Brand Recognisable characters to do it, that means that we get that annoying trope of a 50 second love interest. We reveal someone has a crush, is working themselves up to talk about it, and then just as they are about to say something, they’re gone. Tragedy that only we, the audience really appreciate, sure, but doesn’t tragedy work better when the person it happens to understands what they lost?

I like Arcane. I find it very easy to talk about the things in it I like and it’s one of those shows where by dint of providing clear boundaries, things that definitely do happen and matter, and then ambiguities within them like why or how, there’s a lot of room to dig into what specific characters express or want or how they approach things. It is an OC landscape turbocharged with extra worldbuilding and character space that begs the question of ‘what would you make here?’ It is full of cool characters and some of them bang and some of them should bang and I don’t know how I feel about some of them banging.

Arcane is concentrated brain worms. It took something that lived and died on being able to hook you on vibes and concentrate that through confrontational gameplay and found what made those characters compelling then told a story meant to have just as much of an and then what effect.

Here’s hoping season 2 is good, but even if it’s not, season 1 is untouchable.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[frankiistein]

which is the better webcomic to you homestuck or breadavota?

i mean im like the one man fandom of bread but hs has the advantage (or disadvantage) of being finished, breadavota still has the potential to majorly fuck itself up the way hs did after act 3

imma try 2 break my opinion down in detail

characters:

ok so i will say that hs characters r based on american subcultures and im not american so theres probably some emotional appeal 2 its mostly american audience that i dont relate 2, so i think most of its audience will find them more relatable or deep than i do

anyway i think breadavotas characters r generally more well-developed but hs wins by diversity, even tho admittedly the majority of the hs cast r one-off characters made as jokes (looking at u dancestors)

i said this in a previous post but rpp mostly writes just One Type Of Guy: vaguely schizophrenic assholes

but w/e jacques and bien r fucking winning at being vaguely schizophrenic assholes and u gotta respect jacques for being a character with an actual schizoid personality disorder diagnosis instead of just "coded mentally ill"

johns more interesting than bread is so far tho

worldbuilding:

with hs i think the worldbuilding that rly fleshed out the hs universe didnt rly happen in hs but happens in the other stuff (friendsims, hiveswap, etc) so idk if that counts

hs definitely does portraying alternias culture in a way that promotes the transformative/interactive nature its aiming at: its easy to imagine making ur own trollsona/oc bcuz u can imagine alternia as a place

maldevara is barely a "place" and is more like. a state of being. or a vibe. like there r bits and pieces of its physical culture but most of what we know about it is the sociopolitical philosophy of the maldevarans

idk what the word for it is, ig hs is a more "fun" story and breadavota while not exactly a "serious" story just feels more.... "thinky" and philosophical, its engaging as a thought exercise but isnt the most appealing as a "story" per se

weird-ass aliens:

i like the marginals better but they rly do appeal to a very particular niche ig. the trolls undeniably have better appeal and relatability

the thing with the marginals is that the "depth" of their character building doesnt have as strong as an impact unless u relate 2 the specific Mental Illnesss Experience they embody

both of them have the "4 some reason this super foreign alien species essentially just look like humans bcuz of obvious author appeal" but ig breadavota kinda gets away w/ that bcuz the marginals r more-or-less implied to be part human..... or smthng (at least media is)

the hemosystem of the trolls gives it an edge in diversity (all the marginals on the other hand just seem vaguely The Same Guy and even if it makes sense narratively 4 them 2 be like that it still makes it feel like theres no point in caring about anybody that isnt The Marginal Trademark Symbol Media) altho i do hate how the hemosystem eventually turned the first 12 trolls into archetypes that every other troll was an expy of so idk

"game" mechanics:

both hs and breadavota use the videogamey mechanics for their magic/reality systems so its worth comparing

hs has better mechanics imo but abandoned them halfway thru the story and sburb was kinda forgotten by act 6, which is a shame bcuz u can rly see how hussie used that computer science knowledge and translated it to the hs world mechanics

breadavotas mechanics r harder to grasp and feel less "logical" imo but if the story actually keeps up their relevance it might be easier 2 get used 2 over time

time travel shenanigans:

hs was rly good at handling its time travel shenanigans ill give hussie a point for that one

breadavota has some leniency again bcuz the story isnt that far into it yet but theres not enough "altline" stuff and tbh idk how rpp plans on handling the whole "it isnt real/its all just a dream" trope implied with the alternate timeline doomed to undo itself in a way that doesnt make u think "well what the fuck was the point of all of that then"

visuals:

would u believe me if i said homestuck. lmfao

rpp is a good artist and a good writer but its clear to me that they were never a comic artist before and has trouble portraying a story with pictures

idk how 2 explain it exactly but i think the thing is rpp as an artist draws very "literally" and the way they write is veryyyy abstract, and this is rly most evident in the prose stories that completely lack visuals. rpp has always relied alot on narration (and all the prose stories are either majority narration or even just narration), and they cant do that with the comics bcuz the comics need dialogue

hs mostly has simple visuals but the dialogue format makes it so they feel more integrated

also the hs flashes are just masterworks imo

ofc as a diehard breadavota stannie ill defend breadavota as being a mostly one-person endeavor made by a chronically ill person and the hs flashes had multiple artists so yeah

hussie has always been an artist and hs isnt their first work so they had a lot of experience under their belt. i do respect breadavota for what it is considering its the first thing rpp has ever made

music:

homestuck wins bro it has toby fox. ig breadavota doesnt "need" a musician but rpp obviously likes putting music in the story so it would be a bonus

(i know rpp made like one instrumental song which wasnt a bad song but they obviously r not a musician)

pacing:

they both fucking suck but hs got away with it better

hs dragged itself out way 2 long only to rush itself near the end but hussie updating astronomically fast when it was running made the slowness feel negligible

breadavotas pacing could use a lot of slowing down if ur an archive reader but bcuz it takes like one update every million years to progress it feels excruciatingly slow. like in the four years the story has existed its only been two days in the comic

tbh i think breadavota updates fast enough for a webcomic, at least it feels on par w/ other webcomic updates. most regular webcomics done by single artists updates one page a week so all things considered breadavota has a good amount of content especially considering that rpp doesnt have as much time as ppl whose job it is is to draw their comics

hussie was just exceptionally fast even when considering that its bcuz hs has overall less visuals and recycled sprites

at the very least the new website fixed the most annoying issue the old website for bread had where having every minor update in between the major ones was distracting

conclusion:

tbh i think hs has a lot of mass appeal and rly strikes being so weird and unique w/o being as "off putting" and even tho hussie kinda fumbled the bag over the years the popularity hs has feels well-deserved

im biased 2 breadavota but i can say it does feel very inclined towards a specific type of audience bcuz the entire story is structured around a specific type of experience. like its a very "alienated 4 being mentally ill" story but w/o the usual "but we find found family and community in fellow alienated ppl" that u would usually expect/want in this type of story and like its intentional bcuz the story is about that but i understand it makes it hard 4 most ppl to latch on to

the pop culture references of hs and diversity of character "tropes" can make it broadly relatable and while i dont think u need to "relate" to characters or stories 2 find value in them i think the thing is if u dont exactly see where breadavota is coming from the "point" of it doesnt rly hit

i think what i like abt breadavota is that it portrays certain experiences that nothing else ive seen rly does, but its a rly "thinky" sort of comic that makes it less "fun" as just a story (even if it does still work as a story) for ppl who dont care for or see what its getting at

also since breadavota rly appeals to a specific person on top of already being obscure it means practically everyone engaged w/ the comic interprets it a similar way. i think what made hs get as big as it did was that people werent just engaged with hs alone, they engaged w/ the fandom and saw alot of different theories and analysis

hussie and rpp have both always been "weird" and that reflects in their story but their "brand" of weirdness uhhh reflects in their story. for how polarized hussie is in the fandom ultimately theyve always been more for interactivity: hs started as reader-led, they already had an audience and connections from being an artist for a long time and hussie clearly has a broad collection of interests and inspirations to draw from which makes hs feel "well rounded" and the recognition of inspirations a bonus to some

rpp is an insular person even among the ppl they know, they dont talk 2 ppl, they dont read books, they dont play games, they dont watch tv, etc. homestuck is an inspiration for breadavota not just bcuz "rpp rly likes homestuck" but bcuz they dont rly know a lot of stories to use as an inspiration and their overall reclusiveness makes their character writing feel particular in a way that can be offputting 2 other ppl bcuz first of all they dont know how normal ppl act and secondly since rpp is a "clasically" intelligent person they seem unable to write characters who arent all somewhat intellectual. bien is an "idiot" but lbr... he is not an idiot lmfaooooo. the "thinky"-ness that permeates everything they make can make the story intimidating and it has high expectations for the overall "intelligence" of its audience. and like thats not a bad thing, 2 many stories treat their readers like idiots, but it does make it a story that feels very all or nothing. u either gotta be autistic abt it or u dgaf

breadavota sorta has no choice but 2 draw from author experience bcuz rpp doesnt rly have the means to draw it from anything else. they dont know pop culture, they arent part of communities and they dont engage in fandoms, and that makes breadavota as a story have an interesting and candid perspective that does make it stand out even among other self identified MSPFA type stories but it also makes it both broadly unrelatable and inevitably tinged with the Schizoisms in a way homestuck for all its "craziness" was never so hardcore abt

[ardenttheories]

Gamzee is also an ableist stereotype in addition to an antiblack one, specifically against people with psychosis. During Murderstuck he (at least initially) seemed to be experiencing hallucinations and religious delusions, and a number of characters describe him as psychotic, schizophrenic, lunatic, etc. Even though the voices he was hearing turned out to be coming from a possessed puppet, the writing still leaned into tropes that demonize mentally ill people

Another anon asked: The whole situation with Gamzee has me turning sour because he was a genuinely good person before he went sober and that’s... not how addicts act when they’re off something. Considering sopor has been confirmed to be dangerous I would even go so far as to say he would have been better if he was just left to process his addiction and rehabilitate normally but no. Make the sweet guy who cares for his friends an absolute monster. Thanks Hussie

The combination of these two points is, frankly, what makes me furious about Gamzee’s treatment in both Homestuck and Homestuck 2.

Gamzee is heavily coded to suffer from psychosis. My boyfriend has it; a lot of the things Gamzee goes through (the religious delusions, the paranoia, the violent thoughts and actions, the severe hallucinations) are things I’ve seen in my real-life partner. They’re things that happen specifically when he’s off his meds, when he’s at his least stable - and they’re things that genuinely harm him if I can’t help him or make him take his meds at a more regular time again. 

It’s a real-life fact of psychosis. It’s not inherently bad to show a character suffering from these things, because in truth, that’s just showing how badly psychosis can affect a person - how scary it is to suffer from it when you’re the one seeing the hallucinations and the delusions, when you have that never-ending paranoia and nobody else does. When my partner goes through psychotic episodes, I am more scared for his safety than anything else - and that’s what, honestly, should be seen more in the representation of psychosis. 

Instead? Hussie plays Gamzee into every fucking horror trope known to man. He becomes a violent, volatile murderer who acts without care for the people around him, who is terrifying and vicious and snaps only when he’s been off of his self-medication for a signifcant period of time, but specifically when there’s a trigger (so it seems “out of the blue” and unprovoked, which isn’t actually what happens with psychosis but hypes up that terror). It’s the perpetuation of the idea that psychosis is a scary mental illness that breeds murderers and that medication only “soothes the beast”, which is frankly disgusting. Especially when Gamzee’s first act after snapping is the methodical hunting of each of his friends. 

It’s this reminder that people with psychosis “cannot be trusted”, even when medicated, because it’s only a slip-up that you’ll never see coming away from slaughter. 

You know the worst thing my boyfriend has done while off his meds? Harmed himself. Taken drugs and drink and self harmed while I was sleeping and had no way of stopping him. His first instinct is to hurt himself. Not other people. Not to go hunting for victims. Even at his most volatile, with the worst intrusive thoughts of violence in his mind, he only ever hurts himself. 

And this is what I hate the most about Gamzee’s situation. It’s just a perpetuation that harms people with psychosis, who already struggle with getting help and not being abused in institutions. It paints every good thing he’s ever done as some lie that hides the face of murder, when that’s just not how the mental illness works. Psychosis isn’t the “true face” of the person; the person they are while on medication is who they are. 

That doesn’t even get into the whole concept of demonic possession that is often tied to mental illness in horror flicks. Or how often (historically) in religion “genuine mental illness” is subjected to psychological torture because people assume it’s demonic influence. 

Yet, at the same time, he’s the perpetuation of every violent drug addict stereotype we’ve ever seen. Getting someone off of their addiction doesn’t inherently turn them into violatile murderers, but it sure is something media likes to portray - and, again, facilitiates this idea that the medicated self isn’t the “true” self, but rather “how the medication affects you”. As if that’s some sort of lie? As if dear, sweet Gamzee was never real, and everything he does after going off of drugs is what he’s always been. 

It’s not only just completely wrong to real life situations - considering drug addiction is incredibly detrimental to the person and withdrawal is often one of the hardest things a person can go through, as well as an ongoing experience that sometimes takes years of dedication to achieve - but also just feeds in further to the anti-black stereotype (of black men becoming more volatile when denied their addictions). 

It also just never goes into Gamzee’s withdrawal at all? Which is part of the inherent problem in Gamzee becoming a villain in the later Acts. You’d think, once he’s been forced to go cold turkey for that long and incapable of lapsing back into addiction, that he’d slowly start a very troubled road to recovery that brings back the sweet boy we saw in Act 5. But no. That boy never comes back. He gets off the sopor, and it’s this slow burn to continuous violence to enforce the idea that the initial view we got of Gamzee wasn’t real. 

It’s why it’s so easy for people to hate Gamzee and to deny that any of his actions in Act 5 had any validity or weren’t just a facade. It plays into every negative stereotype and fear people have of psychosis and drug addicts wholeheartedly; it’s why Gamzee even works at a “villain” at all. He has these traits that people see as inherently villainous, and it’s hard to connect that with the kid who refused to adhere to the hemospectrum and showed genuine concern and care for his friends when we first saw him. It’s easier to ignore these inconsistencies than to question and criticise them - and to wonder if part of our fear/hatred of him is saturated in internalised abelism or racism. 

[lost-in-zembla]

Disco Elysium or: How I learned to Stop Wallowing and Love the Game

I will now review a videogame. No real spoilers. Just very vague descriptions below.

My writing this is uncharacteristic of me. I find most writing surrounding the video game industry to be repugnant. The industry (including the media surrounding that industry) relies upon the subsumption of subcultures on the fringe into the very center of the infernal machine where the dedicated and nostalgic nature of its fanbase can be exploited for capital. It’s the same process that produces Iron Man Funko Pops. Call me a jaded and pretentious pseudointellectual poseur, but in the case of Marvel the idea that this fucking billion dollar franchise with the biggest actors in the world somehow retains this guise of this ‘geek’ subculture is disturbing to me.

(If you have played the game Disco Elysium, then you can probably already see part of why I enjoy it so goddamn much.)

I don’t mean we should gatekeep. My point is the media attached to these quote-geek-unquote industries wants to milk the same cash cow (e.g. 10 AWESOME THINGS IN THE LAST OF US 2!) Coming from an academic environment of criticism, I crave at least the appearance of an honest and thorough critique of art. In my experience, you really need to go past the surface to find any reliable ‘takes’ on contemporary videogames. That being said, there’s a lot of good work being done in the form of video essays.

In any case, I play videogames relatively often. Competitive shooters, mostly. But I suffer no story in videogames. Why would I? I read the most *genius* pieces of literature in the English language. I’m too *good* for that. So when I heard all the buzz about Disco Elysium last fall, it fell on deaf ears. Detectives? Disco? Isometry? Story-heavy. Ugh. I’m interested in none of that. But about a week ago, a friend of mine bought the game. Unlike me, he is a real adult with a real job so it was just a whim on his part, I believe. I looked at the game and, with Steam’s lax refund policy in mind, I bought it. In the past week I have put approximately thirty hours into this game. This review is a way for me to explore my own thoughts surrounding the game, thoughts that I didn’t include in my steam review (See below.)

So it was devastating, sure. And this devastation was somehow positive. One thing that I would like to make clear about me talking about this game is that it is fucking useless. Disco Elysium possesses that quality that exists in all great art; it is irreducible. When I try to explain this game to my friends, I find that my words fail to describe what’s so great about the game. Let me give you the elevator review I’ve come up with. *This game has allowed me to explore the breadth of human experience*. It’s an absolutely insane thing to say about a game. The writing, the art style, the story, the world, the RPG gameplay, they all work together to create a kind of experience that I have never encountered in a piece of art before aside from those few, fleeting moments when you feel as though you truly *get* an encyclopedic novel you’re reading (and in my case I usually don’t get it.)

I will not delve too deeply into the mechanics of the game. There are probably plenty of articles and videos that describe the game already. Put simply, the game is about choices. You can choose to solve the murder however you want. You can say absolutely batshit things to people. You can say mildly bemusing things. You can speak apocalyptic prophesies, espouse communism, conservatism, Moralism. race science.. There are moments when you genuinely *feel* like you can say anything, which is quite a feat when you really only have a few dialogue options at any given moment.

As you’ve noticed, this is not a review of the videogame. Playing this game after a tough breakup was sort of earth-shattering. I mean, not only am I navigating through a strange virtual world with its own history and culture and cosmological makeup, I’m diegetically grieving over being left by my *divinely* beautiful ex while I, the player, undergo a similar process and find similar coping mechanisms. Playing this game was like knowing the funniest clown in the world, a clown so funny that you thank him when he occasionally punches you in the chest to make you *feel things*.

The plan wasn’t to make a character whose qualities reflected my own. I just wanted to play the game. I wanted to win. It just so happened that because *I* was the one playing the game, the character essentially turned into me. It doesn’t help that I, too, have had my issues with alcohol, drugs, commitment, and mental health (in no particular order). The character ended up becoming *me* in a way that I’d never experienced before. I faced ethical dilemmas. My ideology was shaken. This game achieves unbelievable mimesis.

Here’s the wild thing: this game has changed me. I feel like a thirteen-year-old white boy who just watched The Boondock Saints and got a pretty okay over-the-pants handjob at the same time. I’m thinking about my life in terms of choices. The game enforces a kind of perspective of the world that highlights its contingency and the permanence of choices. You can, of course, save your progress in the game and reload whenever, but I found myself just sort of riding out the bad choices I made unless they were game-ruiningly catastrophic. (E.g. I had a “thought” equipped that made me fail every unrepeatable *red* check during a pivotal firefight; it was a hilarious disaster. We were essentially mowed down.) I stood by most of my bad choices. After all, I made the choice using the information I had at the time.

I am not good at this game. I absolutely bungled the investigation. I was just a pawn for forces far greater than myself. Seven people died, and I know that I could’ve saved a few of those people, if not all of them. I think about it sometimes. I think about what I could have done, how I could have gone deeper to find out what’s *really* going on, how I could take control of the investigation rather than be taken control of. Maybe I’ll play the game through again, but the first playthrough is kind of magical if you know absolutely nothing about the game like I did. If not for an absolute deus ex machina at the end, I would have been taken to the madhouse. It would have been an unbelievable failure.

During that deus ex machina moment, by the way, a goddamn tear rolled down my cheek. Yeah, I’m in a rough place, personally. But I don’t *cry* over characters in art. They’re not real. But damn if that changed.  I tell you it’s changed *me*. I care more for characters. I know they’re not real but they represent something that I can relate to, no matter who they are. This game has made me think about empathy more. Maybe it’s because I dumped all my points in the emotional skills. Maybe I’d be more violent if I rolled with the physical skills. Maybe I’d feel like a superstar if that’s what I chose to pursue in the game. Disco Elysium feels open-ended enough that if you sign up for the story, the aesthetic, and the investigation itself, then you can get whatever you want out of the experience. The game, again, achieves incredible mimesis.

The mimesis is so convincing in Disco Elysium that it feels as open-ended as reality, with one caveat: you *know* it's a game. You, as a player, know that the experience of Disco Elysium is a designed one, that it was created as a sort of origami structure, that there is narrative and, god help us, *meaning*. What this game-knowledge afforded me during my playthrough was the constant sensation of synchronicity. I found myself saying “I don’t know how this element will fold into the grand structure of the game, and it almost seems impossible that it should become part of the investigation narrative.” But because I know it’s a game, I am graced with the confidence of the highly religious. Everything will come together in the end.

This is not a review for a videogame. This is a confession. I am deeply flawed and I want to change that. My worldview has been shaken because of a videogame. I don’t want to be that kind of animal anymore.

I’m trying to empower myself, to become more aware that my choices do indeed matter, have always mattered. I’m trying to be more pragmatic, to consider the things I want to do in terms of their result rather than the momentary pleasure I will derive from doing them. Now *that’s* a change for me. 

I’m trying to be more empathetic, more willing to imagine the perspectives of others. 

I am trying to give the world around me the benefit of the doubt. It is easy for me to think of the world as a random coincidence of matter, but if you look at the world with totality in mind everything seems to take on this Spinozan glow of divinity. The human mind is a meaning-making machine, I think. If I look at the world as fundamentally devoid of meaning, then that is still meaning. It is nihil-ism. It’s still an -ism. But if I ascribe to the world a kind of glowing potential, as though meaning were to be found in every speck of matter, then I feel invited to participate in this massive dance that we’re all a part of. 

I’m trying to be more adventurous, because beneath the surface of things there seems to be a vast network of relationships, causation, possibility and, god help me, *story*. Or maybe it’s not beneath the surface of things, maybe there is no Deleuzian schizophrenic depth beneath the surface, perhaps the world is a homogenous and ever-developing surface upon which I constellate meaning and, thereby, create it. I’m trying to create a story for myself that will hold a candle to my experience playing Disco Elysium. I didn’t ask for this; it was just what I needed. It was, in a word, unforgettable.

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Ableism, Mental Illness, and the Horror Genre

Horror has a problematic history with the mentally ill, and I think there’s a lot to unpack there in terms of ableism and deconstructing harmful tropes. 

* For purposes of this discussion, I’ll be using some potentially-triggering terms like “insane” and “crazy” and “lunatic” and “psycho” and I kindly ask that you don’t take that as any sort of endorsement or reflection of my values -- just as a bundle of terms familiar in the genre. Tread forward carefully. 

Loosely speaking, I think mental illness has three flavors in the horror genre: 

Stories where people with schizophrenia/DID/whatever are the villains 

Stories set in or using mental hospitals/asylums as scary plot devices

Stories about people going insane/losing their grip on reality (or thinking they’re going insane because of the supernatural shenanigans happening in the story) 

I don’t think that these three tropes are necessarily closely related, and I don’t think that any of them are inherently ableist if dealt with under certain circumstances -- but let’s go back to the beginning and try to break it down a bit.

What is Ableism? Why is it Harmful? 

Before we get started, let’s talk about why we should care about this at all. So what actually is ableism? 

Ableism --  The practices and dominant attitudes in society that devalue and limit the potential of persons with disabilities. A set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities.

(Source: http://www.stopableism.org/p/what-is-ableism.html) 

Ableism against the mentally ill stigmatizes people who have mental illnesses. It dehumanizes and “others” them. In horror media in particular, it promotes the concept that “crazy people” are dangerous, which can lead to acts of violence against them or an overall lack of compassion. 

I’m a firm believer that there are no bad tropes, and that people are always free to write the stories that speak to them - but I’m also a firm believer that you need to take responsibility for your creations and be aware of the effects your words may have on the world. So we’ll look at how mental illness is portrayed in horror media, why it can be problematic, and some ways to subvert it. 

Mental Illness, as a Concept, is Relatively New (and a lot newer than the horror genre)  

The concept of ableism is even newer. Many, many tropes are rooted in times when social concepts were different. Human behavior hasn’t changed much, but the way we talk about that behavior has -- and stories have a way of sticking around after the cultures that created them are gone. So we have a whole stack of tropes and narratives and ideas that are tied to older ways of thinking. 

So for example: At various points in history and across various cultures, mental illness as we know it today may have been viewed as demonic possession, fae magic, witchcraft, etc. In other words - a lot of the tropes we already associate with horror may in part have been used as an explanation for mental illness symptoms (and the mentally ill may have endured terrible punishments for it throughout history as well). 

Then, as more modern medicine started to be practiced, and psychology began to be developed, the concept of mental illness started to develop...and sometimes that, too, was horrifying. 

Here are some supplemental reading links on the topic you might find interesting: 

http://nobaproject.com/modules/history-of-mental-illness

https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-illness-overview/the-history-of-mental-illness

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1673/the-history-of-mental-illness-from-skull-drills-to-happy-pills

Even in modern times, we still don’t fully understand how the brain works and what causes mental illness and the accompanying behaviors -- and the unknown continues to be scary. All of our fears live inside unanswered questions. And that is why these narratives continue to hold sway. 

Why Insanity is Frightening 

Let’s go back to my earlier assertion that there are three flavors of mental illness in horror, because I think at their core that each version preys upon entirely different types of fears: 

#1 The Psycho Killer Trope: 

As seen in: Psycho, Halloween, The Silence of the Lambs

Falls under the TVTrope “Insane Equals Violent” https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsaneEqualsViolent 

Many urban legends also deal with “escaped lunatic” or “dangerous madman” character tropes. The gist of it is that a mentally unstable person is violent, commits atrocious acts, does not feel remorse (or much of anything else), and may somehow possess superhuman strength. 

This scenario is frightening because: 

A crazy person has no motive and cannot be reasoned with 

Crazy people behave erratically and unpredictably 

An insane mind is harder to understand, effectively dehumanizing the villain 

People with hallucinations or delusions can experience a twisted view of reality, leading to abnormal behavior (and cool cinematic effects)

Essentially, if you want to turn a human into a monster, making them “crazy” is an easy (lazy) way to do it. 

Now, here’s the thing. Sometimes, the mentally ill really are dangerous, such as people who attack their families while experiencing delusions. And if you consider sociopaths to be mentally ill, then a good number of serial killers and other violent people count as mentally ill: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201409/the-sociopath-serial-killer-connection

All the same, there are many ways that this trope can become ableist and damaging: 

The overwhelming majority of mentally ill people are non-violent and are actually much more likely to be victims of violence themselves in real life. There are a lot of reasons for that. For one, many severely mentally ill people end up homeless (or homelessness exacerbates existing mental illness), and the homeless are a common target of violence. For another, people’s fear of insanity can lead to them perpetuating violence against the mentally ill. Nasty cycle, right? 

The other big problem with this trope is that it’s not portrayed realistically 99% of the time. Real-world psychopaths are generally not known for their cackling insanity and childish violence. Schizophrenics and people with DID/multiple personalities are statistically very rarely violent, and their violent tendencies are really overblown in media. And that is probably the biggest thing: If the only time we ever see a schizophrenic character in a story is when they’re a crazy killer, then we the audience are going to start thinking that all schizophrenic people are crazy killers. Because most people don’t know anyone with schizophrenia, and they’re not used to ever seeing positive or compassionate portrayals of those people in media. 

#2 The Haunted Asylum Trope: 

As seen in: The Ward, Session 9, American Horror Story: Asylum, and more video games than I can possibly count

Falls under the TVTrope: Bedlam House https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BedlamHouse

There are two flavors to the haunted asylum trope, and they can overlap or happen distinctly. The first is where the action takes place in a now-abandoned building that was once a mental institution and is now haunted as shit. The second is where a person is committed to a mental institution that may or may not be haunted and endures all manner of terrifying things up to and including: abusive staff, ghosts, violent patients, and torturous “treatments.” 

There are more examples of this trope than I can possibly list out, and its roots dig back real deep into our not-so-distant past. Stories like Poe’s short story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” is an early treatment of the premise (compare and contrast with the film Stonehearst Asylum, which is basically a re-telling); Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, while not precisely horror, is a trope codifier for a lot of things that show up in these stories. 

There’s a lot to fear in this setting: 

“Treatments” that were dangerous and brutal, like lobotomies and electro-shocks, being essentially forms of torture 

The idea of being locked up against your will (a justified fear in certain points of history, when locking up your inconvenient relatives was a viable option)

Being locked up somewhere occupied by those same murderous-madmen from the previous trope 

Ghosts and vengeful spirits who are really pissed about all of the above 

In some ways, the haunted asylum trope is actually anti-ableist, or at least inverts the ableism of the psycho-killer trope, in that the “madmen” are often sympathetic characters rather than the villains. However, it then creates its own set of problems. 

One of the worst issues with the “haunted asylum” trope is it is anachronistic. Modern mental health care isn’t perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than it was 100 years ago -- but people don’t have a lot of cultural touchstones for what a modern inpatient care facility looks like. Painting psychiatrists and other mental healthcare staff as sadistic torture-lovers isn’t exactly doing the profession any favors. 

If the public associates getting mental health care with the kind of things they see in media...well, they won’t be very supportive of that care, right? And that’s a big problem. 

And, of course, if your haunted asylum is also home to crazy psycho-killers, you have a two-for-one ableism problem. 

#3 The Am-I-Losing-My-Mind Trope: 

As seen in: The Shining, 1408, The Babadook

Falls under the TV Trope Through the Eyes of Madness: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThroughTheEyesOfMadness

The diverse sub-genre of “psychological horror” quite frequently utilizes some form or another of this concept -- “Are these things actually happening, or am I losing my mind?” I’m the first to admit that I’m a sucker for this trope. It’s probably my favorite thing about the horror genre. But that doesn’t mean it’s wholly unproblematic. 

There are a few sub-types of this trope: 

Gaslighting, where someone purposely manipulates a character to make them feel like they can’t trust their own perceptions of reality 

The “I think I’m going crazy but wait actually it’s a supernatural event” trope 

The “something happened and it made me go crazy (and possibly violent)” trope

Of these, the third one has the greatest risk of becoming ableist. It’s sometimes used to give a backstory to the psycho-killers in #1, and it has some troubling implications. For one, the idea that trauma can make you go crazy is...overly simplistic at best. We don’t fully understand mental illnesses, but we do know that they are often linked to genetics, brain injury, neurological disorders, childhood experiences, etc. etc. etc. In other words, it’s pretty fucking insensitive and reductionist to suggest that a single traumatic event can “drive someone crazy.” 

The other issue is that, in these cases, being crazy (or being viewed as crazy) is the absolute worst thing that could possibly happen to somebody, right? Like how often do we see the harmful trope of someone experiencing something, then being locked away in one of those mental institutions from #2, and then their life is effectively over? That has to feel pretty awful for the people who do suffer from mental illnesses in the real world. 

So, Okay, How Do We Fix It? 

All right. If you’re still with me after this long exploration, you’re probably wondering: OK, TL, I get it, but what am I -- a horror writer -- supposed to do about this? How do I tell scary stories without falling back on harmful tropes? 

Gee, I’m so glad you asked! 

Not every story is the same, and there is no single “do this and never be accused of ableism” formula, but there are some tips I think can make a lot of difference: 

Ask yourself: Why am I writing this story? What is it about the premise that intrigues and frightens you? Drill down to the core of your motives and mine the untapped potential of fresh ideas rather than regurgitating more well-worn tropes. If you want to write a story about being locked in a place with violent people, can I set it somewhere other than an asylum? If I want to write a story about a murderer, can I make him frightening without him being insane? 

Do your research and portray things realistically. Research here means original, real-life cases and events. If you want to write about a mental hospital, look at real mental hospitals and draw your inspiration from them rather than drawing from the stock tropes in other stories. If you have a psychiatrist character, learn about real psychiatric treatments in the time period you’re writing about. If you have a schizophrenic character, research the actual symptoms and behaviors associated with schizophrenia. 

Question what your thematic choices are actually saying. Consider the implications of a plot point or character, and decide whether you’re comfortable with them. Be self-aware about what you choose to include. 

Practice good representation. A lot of the harm from ableist narratives comes from the mentally ill character being the only representation of that illness - not just in their story, but in every story. Consider including sympathetic, non-villainous characters with (realistically portrayed) mental illnesses. If you have several such characters, it’s not so bad if one of them is indeed a villain. 

Get a sensitivity reader. Find somebody who is familiar with what you’re writing about, and get them to read it and tell you if you’re being an asshole. Ideally, get more than one. Someone who has first-hand experience with the topics you’re writing about can tell you whether or not you’ve missed the mark (within reason). 

Invert and avoid stereotypes: This goes hand-in-hand with doing your research. Study the tropes that are common in the type of story you’re telling, and think of ways to challenge or invert the most common stereotypes. Not only will you avoid falling in the same traps, you’ll also give your story a fresh and refreshing twist that the reader will enjoy. 

I hope this was helpful. If you have more thoughts, feel free to add them below! 

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Billie Eilish's Grim, yet spectacular, Debut.

Billie Eilish is an artist defined by her sudden rise in fame although being a strange character all around. Teetering on angsty and edgy, Billie and her brother create music for a damaged generation and show us exactly where pop is heading.

The duo kind of come off as a Macklemore and Ryan Lewis creation. Billie is the face and upfront talent while her brother is the behind the scenes mastermind. As much as her vocals play a part in her appeal, the production is off-the-walls clean. Everything from hurt lyrics to horrific imagery makes Billie who she is. This album is no exception.

Okay. This album is pretty straight forward, right? A pop album with the likes of Lorde sprinkled in. The singles kind of paint that picture, but completely miss the point of the album. While the singles do great alone, they play way better in what I see as a soundtrack of Billie's struggles and fight with both the criticism she's drawn and her personal endeavors in love, life and mental struggles.

The beginning of this album is lighthearted. Starting with a small intro of her removing her Invisalign and laughing with her brother announcing the beginning of the album, then we're thrown into "Bad Guy."

The lastest single takes a tongue-in-cheek approach commenting on her haters calling her a "bad guy" although she hasn't done anything wrong. She embrasses it, even saying "Duh" in the most lackadaisical way possible, sounding tired of defending herself. The production is grand. It's catchy and infectious. Bass rattles hard and different sounds mix together. The mixing is clean and her vocals hide behind trembles in the chorus giving an evil feel to it. The ending of the track goes into a trap inspire beat, hitting the ears at full force while she mutters the final lyrics, making it obvious she won't hesitate to steal anything, or anyone, away from her detractors. A bold statement.

"Xanny" is essentially an anti-drug anthem. Talking about her interactions with some group of people using drugs and being too intoxicated to interact with. She paints this picture being alone in second hand smoke and drinking her canned coke talking about how she doesn't need a Xanny to feel better. She tells whoever she's talking to not give her their Xanny in particular. She also proclaims that she doesn't want to love someone who doesn't die on accident, referring to them deteriorating themselves away. A strong sentiment. The song has a dreary vocal melody but maintains a strong drum and bass feel. A falsetto is heard at the end a capella and it resonates as a strong final tone.

Probably her most musically dense song, "You Should See Me In A Crown" manages to tell a promise in such a strong way it makes you fear her reign over the pop landscape. Basically this is her saying that she's ready to take on the world and rule it all to the ground for her honor. The music uses low registers and bass to make the message more defining. One of the strongest songs in the album for sure.

"All The Good Girls Go To Hell" starts with a crazy line. Claiming that her "lucifer is lonely." This song has a lot of antireligious undertones and throws a message about how she thinks heaven is out of sight and we shouldn't seek all of our answers from heaven or a bigger being. She also talks about God being a woman... Possible Ariana diss? I don't care for the music too much. While it is catchy, it seems to be out of place.

"Wish You Were Gay" brought a lot of controversy. The sentiment of wishing someone was gay instead of straight can seem offensive but I've seen several LGBT members on social media defend the sentiment. All it's referencing is how se wishes the one who rejected her was gay so he had a better excuse for not being interested. The sound is R&B, mixed with trap snares and an acoustic section. One of the better tracks in the first half the album.

"When The Party's Over" is probably the one single that I would say works the best in the context of the album and not alone. I didn't like this single as it was a slow burner and didn't have a lot of relisten value for me. The lyrics show the struggle of letting go on one end while the other begs for the ability to let go. The music is piano riffs along with a soft angelic falsetto fading along the background. I've grown to like this song in the context of the album, but I wouldn't listen to it on its own.

"8" marks the halfway point of the album. It's an angsty song about her being left by someone who has no feelings for what they once, or never possibly, had. It's one of my least favorite track on the album. The ukulele and high pitched vocals turn me off immediately. It's a cheesy track that doesn't have itself figured out.

"My Strange Addiction" is the most radio friendly song off this album. Sprinkled with random sound clips from the hit TV show The Office and its "Threat Level Midnight" episode, it has a wide appeal. The song itself is about addiction to love and can be seen as a double entandra for drugs itself. The music is very catchy and has a 90s feel to the verses. The song itself can be a bit cringey in the lyrics but it's made up by great vocal delivery and the audio clips.

Now, onto what I consider the best song on the album. "Bury A Friend" was the most successful single off the album before the release and for obvious reason. It's dark and sadastic. When I hear the vocals, I picture a sleep paralysis demon telling her this as she can't move. The lyrics themselves seem to reference a self aware schizophrenic that can't escape their fears and suicidal thoughts. The music is Grim and sounds like something out of a horror movie. It paints an ugly picture that fits the song amazingly.

"ilomilo" is a complete turnaround in mood. The song itself is lighthearted sounding but it carries a hefty weight on its shoulders. The song references the amount of friendships and love interests she's had to "bury," making an obvious reference to the previous track. The track is dance hall inspired but only to a degree. This one definitely left an impression on me and is one of the better second half tracks for sure.

This next track made me tear up the first time I heard it. "Listen Before I Go" is a track about sucidie and how if anyone really cared, they would come to her with whatever they have before she does herself in for good. The background has random noises of children laughing, people screaming and sirens scattered throughout and paints a Grim image of a soul so hurt they can't take what's happened to them anymore. To the point where even "sorry can't save her now." It's an exhausting track to a fault but hits a certain nerve and sticks with you long after the first listen.

"I Love You" follows the story of the previous track and shows the aftermath of the incident. The lyrics refer to the phrase I Love You being muttered while the character is dying in the hospital and shows a strong sense of regret for what the character has done to themself, wishing that the phrase was an attempt to make them laugh, essentially rendering it a lie. It's an acoustic and bass driven ballad with a strong vocal presence. Again another song that sticks hard after hearing it.

The final track "Goodbye" is more of an Outro and brings together a lot of the lyrics in previous tracks. It's slow in its delivery but gets across a simple message. That the songs all bind together into one big story and chronicle a struggle of self love, fitting in, dating and mental status. It's a strong Outro and brings together a great album.

In conclusion, this album is above what I expected. It's hard to believe this is her full length debut and somehow deviates so much from her previous singles and EP enough to show us versatility and long staying power. Billie and Fineas have a lot on their hands when they make a new project, because this could end up being her magnum opus.

9/10

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Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities… We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies. – Christiane Northrup • Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you’re eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt. – Michael Pollan • Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same. – Lee Clow • Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years. – Dan Buettner • Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! – Karl Lagerfeld • Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses. – Anna Lappe • Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails – Sun Simiao • Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. – Cathy Hopkins • Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle. – Mia Hamm • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. – George Bernard Shaw • Everyone seems to think I’m very ladylike. That I’m very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I’ve been known to use the F-word. I’ve told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle. – Helena Bonham Carter • Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet. – David Perlmutter • First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don’t try and “go cold turkey”; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it. – Gary Player • Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that’s what is so wonderful about it because it’s so structured and your body is changing and you’re able to do things that you’ve never done before. You’re stronger than you’ve ever been before. – Jessica Biel • Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households … [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil – without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle. – Frances Ford Seymour • Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet. – Robert Atkins • Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life. – Sanjeev Bhaskar • Good health is multifaceted – it’s physical, it’s internal, it’s my diet, and my emotional state. It’s all tied in together. – Michelle Obama • Hearing politicians tell us we can’t afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can’t afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don’t have. I can’t pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. – Ann Coulter • Hey! D’you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet… died a vegetable. That’s a damn good joke. But that joke’s like a Toyota Camry – reliable, not inspiring. – Christopher Titus • High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can’t stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets – many are fat themselves. – John A. McDougall • Hope is a very thin diet. – Thomas Shadwell • How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? – Robert Atkins • I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a “panacea” for human ills; it is something much more rational – an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past. – Henry Stephens Salt • I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books. – Mason Cooley • I always ate healthy, but it wasn’t scientific. Now it’s a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don’t get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan. – Lindsey Vonn • I always want to defeat supervillains – it’s just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I’m not into. – Amy Adams • I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy. – Tony Parsons • I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears. – Tom Waits • I changed my diet completely. You know, I’m from Cleveland, so I’ve always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It’s basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else. – Joe Eszterhas • I continue to be amazed by our bodies’ ability for self-repair. … Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That’s what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it’s never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier. – Michael Greger • I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. – Ellen Burstyn • I didn’t realize that diets don’t work, and I did not want to diet. I didn’t want to do anything that required dieting. – Octavia Spencer • I diet between meals. – Michael Winner • I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies. – Martin Luther • I don’t do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day. – Selena • I don’t have a diet, and whenever I feel like eating a burger or pizza or tacos, I just go for it. I feel like my body is telling me I need that. I think it’s important for an actress to look like a real person. – Stephanie Sigman • I dont have a trainer. I have what I call the poor mans workout and the rich mans diet. I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if its 3 in the morning. – T. J. Thyne • I don’t have hardly any caffeine, I don’t drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying. – Jayne Middlemiss • I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar. – Sally Phillips • I don’t have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want. – Maria Sharapova • I don’t think I’ve ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I’m not skinny now – I’m spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet – mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa. – Nick Antosca • I don’t think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it’s not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion. – Paul R. Ehrlich • I don’t think the problem is telling people you’re on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast. – Chelsea Handler • I don’t want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year’s resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I’m trying. – Blake Mills • I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn’t necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts. – Adriana Lima • I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day. – Art Linkletter • I eat healthy and don’t go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates. – Vijender Singh • I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. – Constance Marie • I feel good. I’m much better. Actually, I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called the flu. Has anyone tried that one out? – Jay Mohr • I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems … In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried. – Andrew Weil • I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places. – Brandon Boyd • I follow the Dr. Peter D’Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It’s an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual… and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken. – Miranda Kerr • I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs – boiled or fried – a few bananas and a glass of milk. – Vijender Singh • I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. – Robert Atkins • I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say. – Henry David Thoreau • I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I’m very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they’re not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me. – Richard Simmons • I heard once that I’m considering having liposuction. And the reason I find that so ridiculous is I’ve gone out of my way to train really hard the last eight months. I want to prove you don’t need surgery, you don’t need steroids and you don’t even need to diet. I’ve lost over a stone and that’s all been down to good old-fashioned exercise. Once your metabolism gets going you can enjoy your life. – Peter Andre • I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. – Sullivan Stapleton • I know you’re on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex? – David Letterman • I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it’s all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that’s out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad. – Greg Rutherford • I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. – William Shatner • I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state… a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. – William L. Shirer • I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. – Chick Corea • I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That’s a bit much. – Chris Mohr • I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing. – Alistair Brownlee • I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. – Gwen Stefani • I try not to have a lot of sugar in my system. If I have sugar for breakfast, whether that be fruit or some pancakes or French toast, they’ll make sure all of the meals for the rest of the day have no sugar in them. I try to take the sugar out of my diet. – Dwight Howard • I try to eliminate processed food completely out of my diet. That’s bad for you. – Teri Hatcher • I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts. – Mr. T • I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself. – Jean Cocteau • I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate. – Cathy Guisewite • I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn’t get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet. – Robert Atkins • I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did. – Mark Spitz • If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained. – Frederick Banting • If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. – Jean Baudrillard • If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor’s bill, a beggar’s purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning – but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold. – Jonathan Swift • If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew. – Daniel Pauly • If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever. – Wallace Stegner • If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor. – Amos Oz • If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you’ve never juiced vegetables, start. If you’ve never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness. – Andrew Saul • If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form. – Edith Head • If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you’ll still see the pounds come off. – Misty May-Treanor • If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it’s going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don’t say, “Oh, my jeans don’t fit,” or “Oh, I was bad.” No diets. Nothing like that. – Bethenny Frankel • If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs. – Carlos Zambrano • I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home. – Billy Connolly • I’m cancer-free. And I’m on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don’t have resentment any more. It’s wonderful. – Louis Gossett, Jr. • I’m completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated. – Bob Saget • I’m fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say ‘Fine – how was your lobotomy?’ – Roseanne Barr • I’m in the gym pretty much every day. I’ve been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can. – Jesse McCartney • I’m not going on a diet, I’m not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it’d be boring. – Jesy Nelson • I’m not on a diet. And it’s funny cause people go ‘Well, then why do you drink diet soda?’ So I can eat regular cake. – Gabriel Iglesias • I’m on a diet as my skin doesn’t fit me anymore. – Erma Bombeck • I’m on a seafood diet – I see food, I eat it. – Dolly Parton • I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers. – J. B. Smoove • I’m on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That’s a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver’s license. – Larry the Cable Guy • Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. – Phil Crosby • In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image – a new year. – Arabella Weir • Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. – Frederick Banting • It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity. – Pope Francis • It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice. – Mahatma Gandhi • It may indeed be doubted whether butchers’ meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers’ meat. – Adam Smith • It’s difficult for me to diet, so I don’t. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It’s that simple. – John Travolta • It’s important to keep a balanced diet, but I’m not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I’m going to enjoy that cheeseburger. – Heidi Klum • I’ve always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It’s always been extreme, but in the last few years I’ve gotten into balance. I don’t restrict myself like I used to. – Nico Tortorella • I’ve been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on. – Richard Simmons • I’ve been on every diet in the world. I’ve been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate. – Rosie O’Donnell • I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet. – Dolly Parton • I’ve grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they’ll become better writers – to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form. – Ray Bradbury • I’ve never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. – Matthew Hussey • I’ve tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine. – Brooke Burke • Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up. – Conan O’Brien • Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. – Gautama Buddha • Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly. – Christian McKay • Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good. – Madhuri Dixit • Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing…I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes. – Dean Ornish • Love’s a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold. – Aphra Behn • Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life. – Jenny Meadows • Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred. – Wayne Muller • Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. – Horace • Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn’t, we get divorced. – Merle Shain • Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural. – Homaro Cantu • Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality. – Paul Tournier • Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There’s usually a sexy promise attached to these trends – related to diet or fitness – that many people find too tempting to resist. – Jillian Michaels • Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. – Charles Dickens • My day does not truly begin until I’ve acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It’s the Big Gulp that’s important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable. – Cate Marvin • My New Year’s resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! – Eric Ripert • My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol – no smoking – Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I say that is because smoking and alcohol put a lot of effort on your body. Your lungs. Your liver. Your stomach. These things will make you suffer, man. – Royce Gracie • No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don’t like. – Walter Slezak • Now there’s a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It’s been reflected in a lot of their work. It’s self-reflective, it’s quite knowing, but it’s very literate. – Simon Pegg • Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet. – Deepak Chopra • Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization…Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture…Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement. – Edgard Varese • Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don’t quite agree with you. I don’t think it was a conscious decision, I think it organically happened over time, but I do watch what I eat and try to eat healthy. – Jayne Middlemiss • One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed that something as enjoyable as playing with my son was so tough for me to do. Immediately I started an extensive diet and exercise plan. It completely changed my life and helped cure my Type-2 diabetes. – Drew Carey • One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. – Dian Fossey • One of the good things about the Paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet. – Chris Mohr • Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I’m ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We’ve got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! – Prince • Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled – though as we’ll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they’ll just keep coming back again and again. – Christopher Ryan • People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it’s the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we’re afflicted with such a horror of aging that we’ve halted the process psychically. – Sue Grafton • Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did. – Summer Sanders • Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning. – Scott Adams • Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. – Adrian Peterson • Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like “blazing trails,” flying over “shark-infected seas,” “battling with monsoons,” and “forced landings amongst savage tribes” became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin. – Amy Johnson • Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. – Pliny the Elder • So far I’ve always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men. – Angie Dickinson • So, I’m not on a diet. I’m on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. – Lysa TerKeurst • Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis • Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. – Arabella Weir • Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer. – John Robbins • Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn’t healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old! – Jenna McCarthy • Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. – Josh Billings • Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things…. But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound. – Dorothy H Cohen • That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive – books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all. – Anthony Lane • The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. – Groucho Marx • The best diet is the one that you don’t know you are on. – Chris Powell • The brain’s preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You’ll be a little groggy, a little grumpy. – Jack LaLanne • The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up! – Mitch Hedberg • The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. – Dick Cheney • The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. – Christopher Hitchens • The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health. – Bob Schwartz • The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. – Margaret Cho • The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein. – T. Colin Campbell • The ifs and buts of history…form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. – Vikram • The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper. – Dan Buettner • The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. – Jack Weatherford • The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan. – Pamela Anderson • The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it’s my hobby as well as my job. – Ronnie Coleman • The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes…and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He…appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too. – Luci Swindoll • The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups. – James Beard • The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public’s head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television. – Eric Drooker • The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control. – Maximilian Bircher-Benner • The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it’s ridiculous. – Laura Prepon • Then there’s your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces… anything that’s nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It’s amazing how quickly you get into it. There’s also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously… about two litres a day. – Tom Hardy • There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there’s one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents. – Joel Fuhrman • There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life. – Al Roker • There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I’ve never been on a strict diet. I just don’t overeat, and I don’t eat if I’m not hungry. – Anna Friel • Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world. Our bodies must become lighter, and this means the elimination of heavy foods. During the sessions, my clients are repeatedly warned to stop eating meat (beef and pork especially), mainly because of the additives and chemicals that are being fed into the animals. – Dolores Cannon • To develop intuition, one of the things you can do is pay attention to what you eat. Eat as clean a diet as you can. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables without preservatives, without alcohol, caffeine, dyes, and organically grown if possible. But do what is comfortable for your. Don’t try to shift into a lifestyle that doesn’t fit, but be aware that the lighter you eat the lighter you will feel. – Gary Zukav • Travel seems not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. – Jan Morris • Vegetarianism is a healthier diet. – Deepak Chopra • We have been taught to “just eat a balanced diet.” We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works. – Andrew Saul • We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. – Mahatma Gandhi • We stock up on popcorn and candy like we’re crossing the Sierras, don’t we? I’ll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you’ve got there, that bucket? You don’t have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? – Oh, and a Diet Coke. – Ellen DeGeneres • We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. – Pat Williams • We’re [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It’s healthy and full of vitamins and minerals. – Jennie Finch • We’ve all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you so far. The great players go away and work on extra things. They work harder on their skills, they start having early nights and they think about their diet and training. That is what takes them to the next level. – Warren Gatland • What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. – Roger Ebert • What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population. – Ed Begley, Jr. • When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don’t need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment. – William Katt • When I’m off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can. – Henry Rollins • When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. – Jack LaLanne • When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,–when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,–oh, then diet yourself well on biography,–the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet. – Gary Player • When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. – Suzanne Somers • When you don’t use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I’m not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn’t worth it. – Laird Hamilton • When you’ve been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you’re just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium. – Chris Rock • whenever I encountered a slide show titled ‘Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds’ or ‘Celebrity Fashion Fails,’ I’d have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I’d need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity. – Merrill Markoe • Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey. – Scott Adkins • While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet. – Herman Melville • Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)? – Robert Benchley • Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth. – Aristotle • Yes – I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. – Sue Townsend • Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. – Evelyn Waugh • You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don’t have a fitness or diet routine, you won’t be beautiful. – Martha Stewart • You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself. – Lea Michele • You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable. – Robert Atkins • Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood. – Ming-Dao Deng • Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss. – Ann Richards • Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. – William Shakespeare • You’re thinking I’m one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I’m not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway. – Scott Adams

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day’s journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day’s rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson • 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together. – Mark Bittman • A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. – Naomi Wolf • A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don’t eat. – Robert Atkins • A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then. – Joshua Harris • A relationship book I once read told women to use the word fun whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times – the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me. – Julie Klausner • a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation. – Pauline Kael • After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets… and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. – Marilu Henner • After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she’s gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay. – Norm MacDonald • Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action. – Grant Cardone • Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal. – Herbert M. Shelton • An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. – Norman Cousins • As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again. – Andrew Weil • As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What’s hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it. – Arundhati Roy • At one point, I even thought, “Oh, I’ll take diet pills.” I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It’s awful, and I would never, ever recommend it. – Jenna Ushkowitz • Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously. – Kevin Kelly

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I’ve kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don’t like it with champagne. – Iris Apfel • Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities… We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies. – Christiane Northrup • Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you’re eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt. – Michael Pollan • Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same. – Lee Clow • Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years. – Dan Buettner • Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! – Karl Lagerfeld • Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses. – Anna Lappe • Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails – Sun Simiao • Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. – Cathy Hopkins • Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle. – Mia Hamm • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. – George Bernard Shaw • Everyone seems to think I’m very ladylike. That I’m very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I’ve been known to use the F-word. I’ve told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle. – Helena Bonham Carter • Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet. – David Perlmutter • First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don’t try and “go cold turkey”; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it. – Gary Player • Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that’s what is so wonderful about it because it’s so structured and your body is changing and you’re able to do things that you’ve never done before. You’re stronger than you’ve ever been before. – Jessica Biel • Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households … [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil – without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle. – Frances Ford Seymour • Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet. – Robert Atkins • Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life. – Sanjeev Bhaskar • Good health is multifaceted – it’s physical, it’s internal, it’s my diet, and my emotional state. It’s all tied in together. – Michelle Obama • Hearing politicians tell us we can’t afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can’t afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don’t have. I can’t pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. – Ann Coulter • Hey! D’you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet… died a vegetable. That’s a damn good joke. But that joke’s like a Toyota Camry – reliable, not inspiring. – Christopher Titus • High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can’t stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets – many are fat themselves. – John A. McDougall • Hope is a very thin diet. – Thomas Shadwell • How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? – Robert Atkins • I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a “panacea” for human ills; it is something much more rational – an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past. – Henry Stephens Salt • I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books. – Mason Cooley • I always ate healthy, but it wasn’t scientific. Now it’s a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don’t get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan. – Lindsey Vonn • I always want to defeat supervillains – it’s just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I’m not into. – Amy Adams • I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy. – Tony Parsons • I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears. – Tom Waits • I changed my diet completely. You know, I’m from Cleveland, so I’ve always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It’s basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else. – Joe Eszterhas • I continue to be amazed by our bodies’ ability for self-repair. … Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That’s what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it’s never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier. – Michael Greger • I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. – Ellen Burstyn • I didn’t realize that diets don’t work, and I did not want to diet. I didn’t want to do anything that required dieting. – Octavia Spencer • I diet between meals. – Michael Winner • I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies. – Martin Luther • I don’t do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day. – Selena • I don’t have a diet, and whenever I feel like eating a burger or pizza or tacos, I just go for it. I feel like my body is telling me I need that. I think it’s important for an actress to look like a real person. – Stephanie Sigman • I dont have a trainer. I have what I call the poor mans workout and the rich mans diet. I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if its 3 in the morning. – T. J. Thyne • I don’t have hardly any caffeine, I don’t drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying. – Jayne Middlemiss • I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar. – Sally Phillips • I don’t have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want. – Maria Sharapova • I don’t think I’ve ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I’m not skinny now – I’m spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet – mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa. – Nick Antosca • I don’t think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it’s not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion. – Paul R. Ehrlich • I don’t think the problem is telling people you’re on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast. – Chelsea Handler • I don’t want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year’s resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I’m trying. – Blake Mills • I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn’t necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts. – Adriana Lima • I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day. – Art Linkletter • I eat healthy and don’t go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates. – Vijender Singh • I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. – Constance Marie • I feel good. I’m much better. Actually, I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called the flu. Has anyone tried that one out? – Jay Mohr • I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems … In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried. – Andrew Weil • I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places. – Brandon Boyd • I follow the Dr. Peter D’Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It’s an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual… and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken. – Miranda Kerr • I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs – boiled or fried – a few bananas and a glass of milk. – Vijender Singh • I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. – Robert Atkins • I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say. – Henry David Thoreau • I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I’m very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they’re not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me. – Richard Simmons • I heard once that I’m considering having liposuction. And the reason I find that so ridiculous is I’ve gone out of my way to train really hard the last eight months. I want to prove you don’t need surgery, you don’t need steroids and you don’t even need to diet. I’ve lost over a stone and that’s all been down to good old-fashioned exercise. Once your metabolism gets going you can enjoy your life. – Peter Andre • I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. – Sullivan Stapleton • I know you’re on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex? – David Letterman • I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it’s all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that’s out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad. – Greg Rutherford • I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. – William Shatner • I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state… a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. – William L. Shirer • I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. – Chick Corea • I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That’s a bit much. – Chris Mohr • I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing. – Alistair Brownlee • I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. – Gwen Stefani • I try not to have a lot of sugar in my system. If I have sugar for breakfast, whether that be fruit or some pancakes or French toast, they’ll make sure all of the meals for the rest of the day have no sugar in them. I try to take the sugar out of my diet. – Dwight Howard • I try to eliminate processed food completely out of my diet. That’s bad for you. – Teri Hatcher • I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts. – Mr. T • I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself. – Jean Cocteau • I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate. – Cathy Guisewite • I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn’t get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet. – Robert Atkins • I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did. – Mark Spitz • If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained. – Frederick Banting • If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. – Jean Baudrillard • If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor’s bill, a beggar’s purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning – but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold. – Jonathan Swift • If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew. – Daniel Pauly • If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever. – Wallace Stegner • If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor. – Amos Oz • If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you’ve never juiced vegetables, start. If you’ve never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness. – Andrew Saul • If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form. – Edith Head • If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you’ll still see the pounds come off. – Misty May-Treanor • If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it’s going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don’t say, “Oh, my jeans don’t fit,” or “Oh, I was bad.” No diets. Nothing like that. – Bethenny Frankel • If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs. – Carlos Zambrano • I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home. – Billy Connolly • I’m cancer-free. And I’m on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don’t have resentment any more. It’s wonderful. – Louis Gossett, Jr. • I’m completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated. – Bob Saget • I’m fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say ‘Fine – how was your lobotomy?’ – Roseanne Barr • I’m in the gym pretty much every day. I’ve been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can. – Jesse McCartney • I’m not going on a diet, I’m not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it’d be boring. – Jesy Nelson • I’m not on a diet. And it’s funny cause people go ‘Well, then why do you drink diet soda?’ So I can eat regular cake. – Gabriel Iglesias • I’m on a diet as my skin doesn’t fit me anymore. – Erma Bombeck • I’m on a seafood diet – I see food, I eat it. – Dolly Parton • I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers. – J. B. Smoove • I’m on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That’s a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver’s license. – Larry the Cable Guy • Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. – Phil Crosby • In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image – a new year. – Arabella Weir • Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. – Frederick Banting • It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity. – Pope Francis • It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice. – Mahatma Gandhi • It may indeed be doubted whether butchers’ meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers’ meat. – Adam Smith • It’s difficult for me to diet, so I don’t. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It’s that simple. – John Travolta • It’s important to keep a balanced diet, but I’m not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I’m going to enjoy that cheeseburger. – Heidi Klum • I’ve always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It’s always been extreme, but in the last few years I’ve gotten into balance. I don’t restrict myself like I used to. – Nico Tortorella • I’ve been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on. – Richard Simmons • I’ve been on every diet in the world. I’ve been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate. – Rosie O’Donnell • I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet. – Dolly Parton • I’ve grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they’ll become better writers – to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form. – Ray Bradbury • I’ve never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. – Matthew Hussey • I’ve tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine. – Brooke Burke • Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up. – Conan O’Brien • Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. – Gautama Buddha • Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly. – Christian McKay • Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good. – Madhuri Dixit • Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing…I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes. – Dean Ornish • Love’s a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold. – Aphra Behn • Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life. – Jenny Meadows • Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred. – Wayne Muller • Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. – Horace • Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn’t, we get divorced. – Merle Shain • Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural. – Homaro Cantu • Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality. – Paul Tournier • Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There’s usually a sexy promise attached to these trends – related to diet or fitness – that many people find too tempting to resist. – Jillian Michaels • Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. – Charles Dickens • My day does not truly begin until I’ve acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It’s the Big Gulp that’s important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable. – Cate Marvin • My New Year’s resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! – Eric Ripert • My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol – no smoking – Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I say that is because smoking and alcohol put a lot of effort on your body. Your lungs. Your liver. Your stomach. These things will make you suffer, man. – Royce Gracie • No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don’t like. – Walter Slezak • Now there’s a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It’s been reflected in a lot of their work. It’s self-reflective, it’s quite knowing, but it’s very literate. – Simon Pegg • Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet. – Deepak Chopra • Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization…Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture…Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement. – Edgard Varese • Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don’t quite agree with you. I don’t think it was a conscious decision, I think it organically happened over time, but I do watch what I eat and try to eat healthy. – Jayne Middlemiss • One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed that something as enjoyable as playing with my son was so tough for me to do. Immediately I started an extensive diet and exercise plan. It completely changed my life and helped cure my Type-2 diabetes. – Drew Carey • One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. – Dian Fossey • One of the good things about the Paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet. – Chris Mohr • Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I’m ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We’ve got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! – Prince • Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled – though as we’ll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they’ll just keep coming back again and again. – Christopher Ryan • People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it’s the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we’re afflicted with such a horror of aging that we’ve halted the process psychically. – Sue Grafton • Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did. – Summer Sanders • Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning. – Scott Adams • Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. – Adrian Peterson • Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like “blazing trails,” flying over “shark-infected seas,” “battling with monsoons,” and “forced landings amongst savage tribes” became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin. – Amy Johnson • Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. – Pliny the Elder • So far I’ve always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men. – Angie Dickinson • So, I’m not on a diet. I’m on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. – Lysa TerKeurst • Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis • Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. – Arabella Weir • Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer. – John Robbins • Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn’t healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old! – Jenna McCarthy • Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. – Josh Billings • Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things…. But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound. – Dorothy H Cohen • That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive – books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all. – Anthony Lane • The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. – Groucho Marx • The best diet is the one that you don’t know you are on. – Chris Powell • The brain’s preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You’ll be a little groggy, a little grumpy. – Jack LaLanne • The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up! – Mitch Hedberg • The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. – Dick Cheney • The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. – Christopher Hitchens • The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health. – Bob Schwartz • The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. – Margaret Cho • The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein. – T. Colin Campbell • The ifs and buts of history…form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. – Vikram • The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper. – Dan Buettner • The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. – Jack Weatherford • The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan. – Pamela Anderson • The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it’s my hobby as well as my job. – Ronnie Coleman • The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes…and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He…appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too. – Luci Swindoll • The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups. – James Beard • The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public’s head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television. – Eric Drooker • The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control. – Maximilian Bircher-Benner • The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it’s ridiculous. – Laura Prepon • Then there’s your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces… anything that’s nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It’s amazing how quickly you get into it. There’s also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously… about two litres a day. – Tom Hardy • There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there’s one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents. – Joel Fuhrman • There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life. – Al Roker • There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I’ve never been on a strict diet. I just don’t overeat, and I don’t eat if I’m not hungry. – Anna Friel • Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world. Our bodies must become lighter, and this means the elimination of heavy foods. During the sessions, my clients are repeatedly warned to stop eating meat (beef and pork especially), mainly because of the additives and chemicals that are being fed into the animals. – Dolores Cannon • To develop intuition, one of the things you can do is pay attention to what you eat. Eat as clean a diet as you can. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables without preservatives, without alcohol, caffeine, dyes, and organically grown if possible. But do what is comfortable for your. Don’t try to shift into a lifestyle that doesn’t fit, but be aware that the lighter you eat the lighter you will feel. – Gary Zukav • Travel seems not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. – Jan Morris • Vegetarianism is a healthier diet. – Deepak Chopra • We have been taught to “just eat a balanced diet.” We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works. – Andrew Saul • We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. – Mahatma Gandhi • We stock up on popcorn and candy like we’re crossing the Sierras, don’t we? I’ll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you’ve got there, that bucket? You don’t have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? – Oh, and a Diet Coke. – Ellen DeGeneres • We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. – Pat Williams • We’re [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It’s healthy and full of vitamins and minerals. – Jennie Finch • We’ve all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you so far. The great players go away and work on extra things. They work harder on their skills, they start having early nights and they think about their diet and training. That is what takes them to the next level. – Warren Gatland • What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. – Roger Ebert • What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population. – Ed Begley, Jr. • When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don’t need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment. – William Katt • When I’m off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can. – Henry Rollins • When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. – Jack LaLanne • When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,–when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,–oh, then diet yourself well on biography,–the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet. – Gary Player • When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. – Suzanne Somers • When you don’t use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I’m not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn’t worth it. – Laird Hamilton • When you’ve been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you’re just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium. – Chris Rock • whenever I encountered a slide show titled ‘Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds’ or ‘Celebrity Fashion Fails,’ I’d have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I’d need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity. – Merrill Markoe • Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey. – Scott Adkins • While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet. – Herman Melville • Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)? – Robert Benchley • Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth. – Aristotle • Yes – I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. – Sue Townsend • Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. – Evelyn Waugh • You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don’t have a fitness or diet routine, you won’t be beautiful. – Martha Stewart • You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself. – Lea Michele • You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable. – Robert Atkins • Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood. – Ming-Dao Deng • Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss. – Ann Richards • Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. – William Shakespeare • You’re thinking I’m one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I’m not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway. – Scott Adams

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