Active Quote by Gary Taubes

“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have been hard-pressed…

— Gary Taubes

“Referring to obesity as a “form of malnutrition” comes with no moral judgments attached, no belief system, no veiled insinuations of gluttony and sloth.…

— Gary Taubes

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as…

— Peter Singer

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience…

— John Piper

“My conclusion is that humans evolved as obligate fat-eaters, and our biology is dependent on eating diets high in fat and moderate in protein,…

— Tim Noakes

“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply…

— Gary Taubes

“We come from a mindset that suggests diets are temporary tortures we must endure,” says Debb. And when we’re done, “then we have permission…

— Mika Brzezinski

Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.

— Natasha Friend

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.

— Robin Marantz Henig

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

— Rene Redzepi

It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little…

— Wilbur Olin Atwater

Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle…

— Nilus of Sinai