Fat Quote by Michael Moss

“…Sugar has become an ingredient avoidable in prepared and packaged foods only by concerted and determined effort, effectively ubiquitous. Not just in the obvious…

— Gary Taubes

“Low-fat had become the new mantra of the times, something we like to call the “Snackwell Phenomenon.” Food companies rushed to create low-fat versions…

— Jonny Bowden

“Any improvement to the nutritional profile of a product can in no way diminish its allure, and this has led to one of the…

— Michael Moss

“THE DIET-GO-ROUND LOW-CALORIE DIETS Diets began by limiting the number of calories consumed in a day. But restricting calories depleted energy, so people craved…

— John Douillard

“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils has grown…

— Nina Teicholz

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

— Robert Powell

“studies have failed to find any substantial evidence proving a relationship between sugar consumption and hyperactivity.”

— Mark Leyner

“Overweight, sedentary bodies don’t deal with simple sugars nearly as well as lean, physically active ones do. •”

— Michael Matthews

It was back in 2011 that everything changed. I was not a healthy eater at all. Up until that point, I was a student…

— Ella Woodward

“A high-fat diet in the presence of carbohydrate is different than a high-fat diet in the presence of low carbohydrate. – Dr. Richard Feinman”

— Jimmy Moore

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat…

— Dave Barry

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…

— Julia Child