We dye our hair. We lather up our skin with chemicals, and spray more chemicals into our armpits and onto our hair. We use more chemicals to clean our homes and to sweeten the air. And when our bodies give out, we blame our genetics rather than consider the possibility that our lifestyle could be at fault. When we seek out treatment, will we choose the fix that requires a complete overhaul of the lifestyle we have chosen? No. Not a chance.  We choose the treatment that aligns with our values. We choose to be the victim. We choose to place our lives in the hands of our doctors. We choose what is easy, even when our lives are literally at stake.

Allene Edwards

I just stumbled upon this.

"I think people worry about the contaminants in their water bottles, but are killing themselves with vegetable oils, starch and fructose."

Dr. Art Ayers of http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com/

Do not eat the fruit of the technology¹
that makes edible² the inedible³,
for when you eat it you will surely die.

Genesis 2:17

Notes on Translation

1. English for "Tree of Knowledge" from Greek tech (weave) and nology (of knowledge).
2. In ancient Hebrew synonymous with "good".
3. In ancient Hebrew synonymous with "evil".

Credit for the translation goes to the book
NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body

"If we are what we eat, and we don't know what we are eating, then do we still know who we are?" -- Claude Fischler

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. Dave Barry

"Eat like a cow, look like a cow. Eat like a cougar, look like a cougar."

"I take a multivitamin, it's called a steak" -forgot who

"No Thank You" to those offering me foods that do not fit my new lifestyle.

Something said at a barbecue about what would kill you: "It ain't the brisket, it's the biscuit!"

The Paleo Diet, so easy, cavemen actually did it

I have to paraphrase again as I don't have the exact quote, but it's by Gary Taubes in Good Calories, Bad Calories:

"When there is abundant food in nature, the animals don't become obese; they reproduce more."

Since we should expect likewise for humans, if people are obese, it doesn't mean that they ate too much. It means that they're eating the wrong types of food.

If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?  Ymber Delecto

I am what I eat: muscle, fat, bones, water and organs.

Came across this one on whole9life.com:

Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff, and we’re making a science experiment out of them. Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?”

Frank Reese, poultry farmer

"Man cannot live on wild caught canned sardines and crushing angst alone." Mark's Daily Apple

It does me good to remember that sometimes and laugh at myself when I get too wrapped up :)

As Gary Taubes pointed out, blaming obesity on eating too much is a bit like saying the cause of alcoholism is drinking too much.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825 French gourmet & lawyer (1755 - 1826)

"Antioxidants are there to protect the plant from its own sugar. They're not there for you!"

It's something like that, but I can't find the exact quote or source at the moment.

Edit: Found the original quote:

You just have to ask yourself why a plant should manufacture an antioxidant in the first place. You can bet your bottom dollar that it was not for the benefit of herbivores!

Credit goes to Petro Dobromylskyj at the Hyperlipid blog.

This one is for all of us...

“I eat Paleo to live better, I don’t live to eat Paleo better.” - Herm @ Paleochix

"It's the bread, not the butter." (that is the problem)

I think I read this somewhere, maybe inspired by the book Good Calories Bad Calories, but I can't remember specifically.

Cows eat grass so you don't have to.

"You tell me where I can find a tree that grows loaves of bread for fruit, and I'll agree that you aren't eating a processed diet." - I know self quoting is for a-holes but I plucked this feather out of my hat when arguing with a really good vegan friend of mine who (until I made this comment) believed he was eating a diet "free of processed foods and meat".

"Nature is beautiful and nature is trying to kill you." - Dr. Kurt Harris.

If that is not the exact qoute it is very close.

Science proceeds one funeral at a time. -- Max Plank

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

All quotes of Hippocrates.

Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food. -Mr. Hippocrates

Also, nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution -Theodosius Dobzhansky. Surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet.

“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.” ~ A.J.Materi

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” ~ Edward Stanley

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” ~ Hippocrates

“People don’t die of old age; they die of inactivity.” Jack LaLanne

"You never know where to look when eating a banana"

Always makes me laugh and reminds me not to take myself too seriously. :)

"The absence of obesity in humanity wherever still living on natural, unrefined foods has indeed been so often observed that it is not necessary to pursue the matter here, and we therefore pass on to a more important consideration."

• The Saccharine Disease, TL Cleave