Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would…

Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of…

— Hilde Bruch

“The evidence suggests that nicotine induces weight loss by working on fat cells to increase their insulin resistance, while also decreasing the lipoprotein-lipase activity…

— Gary Taubes

A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.

— William Davis

as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms…

— Helen Caldicott

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

— Aditi Shankardass

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

— Bernard Wolfe

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom…

— Frederick Lenz

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

— Hans Asperger

When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a…

— Anthony Heald

From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in…

— Broda Otto Barnes

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think…

— Karl A. Menninger

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our…

— Chinua Achebe

In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In…

— Tom Brewer

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

— Georges Canguilhem