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.
The obesity epidemic is ... bullshit! Penn & Teller, Bullshit: s5e1: Obesity
Mainstream media love words like epidemic. ibid.
Never order food in excess of your body weight. Erma Bombeck
Kilo: It’s the weight on which all weights have been based. Marcus du Sautoy, Precision: The Measure of All Things II: Mass and Moles, BBC 2013
It was the great Sir Isaac Newton who first realised that weight changes depending on where and when you are measuring it. ibid.
The metre = one ten millionth of the distance between the north pole and the equator. ibid.
A recent survey of North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. Banksy
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. Proverbs 11:1&2
A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work. Proverbs 16:11
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good. Proverbs 20:10&23
‘People are watching you all the time.’ Pumping Iron, movement instructor, 1977
Gold’s Gym, Venice, California: Where many of the best bodybuilders in the world come to train. ibid.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 28 years old, 6’ 2’’, 240 pounds – Mr Olympia for the past five years. He is preparing to defend his title this year for the last time. ibid.
‘I’ve not been beaten for the last seven years.’ ibid. Arnie
‘It’s as satisfying to me as coming is.’ ibid.
Lou Ferrigno, 24 years old, a former sheet metal worker: Mr America and twice Mr Universe … Lou is the largest bodybuilder ever. ibid.
‘I don’t have any weak points.’ ibid. Arnie
Britain has an obesity crisis. More than a quarter of adults are now obese. A new generation of weight-loss drugs has now been hailed as a potential solution. Panorama: Britain’s Obesity Crisis: Are Weight-Loss Drugs the Answer? BBC 2024
Are the new drugs the answer to the obesity crisis? And are there any drawbacks? ibid.
Isaac W Sprague: A 43-pound human skeleton … ‘neither fat nor muscle’ … ‘He does find love.’ The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd s1e4, History 2024