More than half of America is on a diet. We are programmed to eat and it’s tough to fight millions of years of evolution. Now we’re overweight ... A haven for fad diets and their slick sexy ads are everywhere ... Quick and easy answers on how to lose weight. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s1e11: Eat This, Showtime 2003
The so-called Hollywood Celebrity Diet! ibid.
Almost twenty-five thousand people a day die of hunger. ibid.
These Greenpeace dudes want us to believe that G E crops will ruin other crops and harm any animal or person that eats those foods. These extremists love to use bullshit propaganda ... It’s pretty easy to protest when you’re not hungry. ibid.
Norman Borlaug ... The greatest person that ever lived? At a time when doomsayers were hopping around saying that people were going to starve, Norman was working ... When he won the Noble Prize in 1970 they said he had saved a billion people ... Norman is the greatest human being. ibid.
All food is the product of technology ... Every food has been changed through selective breeding or grafting ... Why is anyone fighting food advance? ibid.
Fat – it’s in all the food we love to eat. There’s nothing that tastes quite so good. Dr Saleyha Ahsan, The Truth About Fat, BBC 2015
Is it really as harmful as we believe? ibid.
When we eat fat what happens inside us? ... Living without fat will affect their body and mind in usual ways. ibid.
We're hardwired to love fat. ibid.
Never trust anybody who wants to slim down anybody. God rot all slimmers! Rumpole of the Bailey s6e1: Rumpole a la Carte, Rumpole to Clerk, ITV 1991
One does not go to Moscow to get fat. John Updike
It’s not my fault that I'm like this. Benefits: Too Fat to Work, young man, Channel 5 2015
I did work so why not? ibid. fattie
They get around two grand a month in handouts. ibid. commentary
All the rats need feeding. ibid. 41-year-old Rachael
Rachael believes the bypass is the only option to get her weight down. ibid.
Benefits wedding. ibid.
Super-size disability benefits. ibid.
She hasn’t had a job for more than twenty years. ibid.
Things are really bad on the obesity frontline. Rates in adults and in children have never been this high. The first government strategy to tackled obesity was 30 years ago. Yet despite hundreds of policies, they’ve never met their own targets. Michael Mosley: Who Made Britain Fat? I, Channel 4 2022
GPs tell me they don’t have the resources to treat overweight patients. ibid.
The Sugar Tax did have a real impact … At least the Sugar Tax itself is still in force. ibid.
Something which many kids eat almost every day; and that is very worrying because already more than 40% of 11-12-year-olds are overweight or obese. And the problem is worse for kids who live in the most deprived areas. For a burger for under a quid and a kid’s chicken box for £1.49 it’s no wonder. I’ve come to Tower Hamlets in east London; here, 97% of resident live within a 10 minute walk of a fast food shop, and there are 42 chicken shops for every primary school … This is the infamous Chicken Mile. Michael Mosley: Who Made Britain Fat? II
When we eat fat when happens inside us? ... Living without fat will affect their body and mind in unusual ways. Dr Saleyha Ahsan, The Truth About Fat, BBC 2015