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"At the dinner table parents can determine portion sizes, model eating and drinking behavior, and enforce social norms about greed and gluttony and waste. Shared meals are about much more than fueling bodies; they are uniquely human institutions where our species developed language and this thing we call culture. Do I need to go on? All this is so well understood that when pollsters ask Americans if they eat together as a family most nights, they offer a resounding—and resoundingly untrue—reply in the affirmative." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"That taking only resveratrol even at high doses will allow us to live a depraved life of sloth and gluttony and live disease-free forever, is unlikely. But what these studies do tell us is very important." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"This is consistent with the difficulty of detecting the underlying dietary contribution and lack of overt gluttony. However, episodic gains due to acute marked excess intake could also be difficult to detect if dietary assessments are not conducted at the times of these imbalances. If they occur in conjunction with holidays and special events, they may be times when efforts to collect dietary information are curtailed in the knowledge that they are not reflective of customary behavior." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Additionally, the old perception that obesity is caused by a lack of willpower or gluttony has been replaced with a better scientific understanding of the genetics and biology that predispose certain individuals to gain weight in our current environment [78]. The discovery of leptin in the mid-1990s established the existence of a genetically controlled complex biological system for food intake and weight regulation." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"A government official who was in danger of dying from the ill effects of gluttony asked Eisai to pray for his recovery. Rather than trusting this man's fate solely to the power of prayer, Eisai directed the official to drink tea that Eisai himself had cultivated and prepared. After the official recovered, Eisai gave him a copy of his book, and the official became a strong tea supporter. As the amazing story of tea's contribution to this man's recovery from deathly illness spread, demand for and cultivation of tea increased throughout the island country of Japan." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"In the battle against obesity and the chronic diseases that flow from it, talking about gluttony and sloth — the overconsumption of calories from food and the underexpenditure of calories from sitting on one's rump — will, today, get you exactly one thing: an egg in the face for stigmatizing people. Science shows that getting fat is not simply due to eating too many doughnuts or OD'ing on TV. It is about genes and about environment, about social class and status." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Gluttony describes the action of overindulging in food intake beyond what your body needs. When you examine the increase in obesity in our society, you have no other choice but to conclude that we are transforming ourselves into a nation of gluttons. We are consuming in excess without concern for consequence. Most of our diseases are self-inflicted because of our uncontrolled actions, which are also making us lazy and less active. Getting on my body scale everyday and looking in the mirror goes a long way to keeping me on track with my own health and fitness goals." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Here is the most important thing to understand about cravings: They are not caused by weak will or gluttony. Cravings are triggered by biological properties of the foods themselves. That is, certain foods have chemical makeups that cause us to crave them in very much the same way that drugs, alcohol, and tobacco have addictive components. Let me be clear: Only certain foods lend themselves to cravings. The same foods are alluring to almost everyone. Four types of foods trigger biochemical effects not unlike those of addictive drugs." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes. The food industry, through lobbying, coercion, greed, and advertising, has influenced us to make dietary choices that fatten us up and harm our health." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"They would overheat, not for lack of willpower or because of greed, gluttony, or laziness. No, they would soak up heat because that's what polar bears do. People overeat for all the same reasons that polar bears overheat. Just as polar bears conserve heat, our ancestors conserved food energy. Polar bears have physiologies designed to thrive when available heat is limited; they soak up and conserve warmth." - David L. Katz, Catherine S. Katz, Dr. David Katz's Flavor-Full Diet: Use Your Tastebuds to Lose Pounds and Inches with this Scientifically Proven Plan (Get the book.)

"Like fat men at a wedding feast, policymakers told themselves they would eat less after the party was over, to make up for their gluttony now. But in public finance, there is never a good time for fasting. When the Reagan team arrived in Washington, the nation had been living with Keynesian deficits for many years. Savers and lenders had grown wary. Consumer price inflation hit 13.5 percent in 1980. Lenders feared it would go higher still. They demanded protection. In 1980, 30-year mortgages could be had at 15 percent interest. By the following year, the mortgage rate rose to a peak of 18." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"While the increase in CHD has been attributed to the nation's gluttony, the subsequent fall in heart disease mortality was, allegedly, a direct result of public awareness campaigns which steered people away from saturated fats and towards 'healthy' low-fat foods. These promotional efforts lowered the population's blood cholesterol and blood pressure levels, reduced the rate of smoking, and provided a shining example of how both government and private health agencies could work together in harmony and save millions of lives in the process. That is the official version of events." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"A Caribbean cruise I took with my wife should have been called the gluttony cruise because people spent the majority of their time eating as much food as possible, and I was no exception. Sure, I made my way to the ship's fitness center three times during the week, and I swam a few times too. But my caloric intake far exceeded my metabolic rate and my activity level, which resulted in increased pounds. Thanksgiving arrived a few weeks later, and the feeding frenzy continued." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"There is an implication that one contributing factor to the fall of the Roman empire was the decadent practice of gluttony. Perhaps this was also true in France before the Revolution. An aristocratic dinner served the night before the French Revolution was reported to have nine courses made from one kind of meat that was prepared in twenty-two different ways.16 When one realizes that an estimated 34 million adult Americans are considered obese, there is some real concern for the spiritual state of our country." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"When gluttony and excess became widespread, religious codes and commandments were invoked against it. gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specific religious warnings or commandments against refined sugar because sugar abuse—like drug abuse—did not appear on the world scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press. "Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sick and weakened human beings?" Dr. Herbert M. Shelton asks. "Must we always take it for granted that the present eating practices of civilized men are normal?" - William Duffy, Sugar Blues (Get the book.)

"Yogic rules of conduct require a person to avoid the following: injuring, lying, stealing, attachment to sensual desires, attachment to grievances, immersion in inertia, attachment to self interests, attachment to consumption, and gluttony. Hygiene and moderation in lifestyle are a focus. Traditionally, the practitioner of yoga is encouraged to eat simple unprocessed vegetarian food and to avoid intoxicants of any kind. It is believed that if a person follows the above guidelines, they will be free from worry and stress." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

"This is because cooked food can be swallowed so easily without chewing, whereas thorough mastication is essential to good health." — Dugald Semple, The Sunfood Way To Health "Your food determines in a large measure how long you shall live — how much you shall enjoy life, and how successful your life shall be." — Dr. Kirschner, Live Food Juices What we eat deeply and radically affects the way we think, feel and behave. We are what we eat, and we eat what we are. Food affects every aspect of our being. Food is the foundation of our physical body." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"I saw him enjoy food without gluttony, thanks to his knowledge and his ability to taste. Lastly, I would like to pay tribute to Folco Portinari, poet and writer (he was one of the editors of La Gola, the pioneering Italian magazine which revolutionized gastronomic discourse), with whom in the 1980s I formed, in the context of the Arcigola association," a kind of intellectual partnership that still continues today." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.) "The first represents economics and subsistence, serious subjects with a scientific basis; the second is associated with pleasure and the culture of foodmere divertissement and hedonism, play and gluttony, of no importance at all. This fictitious separation has for centuries relegated gastronomy to the realm of folklore, denying it any scientific dignity and associating it only with the sphere of leisure, with the village fete, and with the media rage for regional and traditional products, with disputes about the ranking of restaurants." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

"Like all rhetorical wars, they can't be won. They are merely part of a sales and marketing strategy to gain consumer loyalty. Their number one weapon? Large portions. No, sorry, that doesn't do it justice? gigantic portions. Triple cheeseburgers, enormous omelets, double chili cheese fries—and now, you can literally buy a tub of soda pop. Gulp! We are being up-sized and super-sized at the expense of our own size. Not to be outdone, casual dining restaurants are now serving platters with oversized portions, the food hanging off the plate." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

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