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The Swimming Pool Let me explain. Consider the metaphor in which your teenage daughter is a swimmer, you are the pool in which she swims, and the water is the broader world. Like any good swimmer, your daughter wants to be out playing,
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“DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE. No, a desk is not a table.”
― In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
― In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
“If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.”
― In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
― In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
“At least until we learn to eat more slowly and attend more closely to the information of our senses, it might help to work on altering the external clues we rely on in eating on the theory that it's probably better to manipulate ourselves than to allow marketers to manipulate us.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“I could certainly eat more of this, but am I still hungry?”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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