“All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.”
― Dave Barry

“I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight.”
― Alysha Speer

“You're just not a soldier. You're a...you're a nerd. I mean, even the way you work out is nerdy. You don't have like a killer—"
"What do you mean the way I work out is nerdy?"
"How many calories have you burnt in the last five minutes?"
"Um, I dunno. 17 or 18 probably."
"Abe, that's not something normal people know.”
― John Green, The War for Banks Island

“The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in "calories," which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that mankind would have a way to get onion dip into his mouth at parties, has none.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Guide to Life

“Most raw fooders don't embrace fruit, instead they embarrass it. by stripping the avocado down to fats and proteins, they paint a portrait that is most uncomely, unflattering and entirely dishonest. By reducing a banana to 100 calories, in the most ugliest of fashions, they attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. By converting a fruit salad to a plate of LFHCs, they degrade and insult the innocence and beauty of fruit.”
― Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...”
― James Minter, The Hole Opportunity - Bronze Winner for Adult Fiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2013

“The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.”
― Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

“A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

“If someone tells you calories don’t matter, they have no credibility. But if someone tells you calories are all that matters, they have even less.”
― Martin Berkhan, The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.

“The Decision

...I wiped my hands on my pinafore
now sullied and stained
not crisp or pressed
as it had been before...”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“The therapist must believe it more, but the patient must want it more…”
― Evangelos Zoumbaneas

“Humans look just like livestock now. We achieve a state of buttery plumpness before we've even reached sexual maturity. We experience powerful cravings for food that is slowly making us sick. We are...programmed to eat the wrong food. We aren't born calorie zombies, but that's what we have become.”
― Mark Schatzker, The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

“Just as calories differ according to how they affect the body, so too do carbohydrates. All carbohydrates break down into sugar, but the rate at which this occurs in the digestive tract varies tremendously from food to food. This difference forms the basis for the glycemic index (GI).
The GI ranks carbohydrate-containing foods according to how they affect blood glucose, from 0 (no affect at all) to 100 (equal to glucose). Gram for gram, most starchy foods raise blood glucose to very high levels and therefore have high GI values. In fact, highly processed grain products – like white bread, white rice, and prepared breakfast cereals – and the modern white potato digest so quickly that their GI ratings are even greater than table sugar (sucrose). So for breakfast, you could have a bowl of cornflakes with no added sugar, or a bowl of sugar with no added cornflakes. They would taste different but, below the neck, act more or less the same.
A related concept is the glycemic load (GL), which accounts for the different carbohydrate content of foods typically consumed. Watermelon has a high GI, but relatively little carbohydrate in a standard serving, producing a moderate GL. In contrast, white potato has a high GI and lots of carbohydrate in a serving, producing a high GL. If this sounds a bit complicated, think of GI as describing how foods rank in a laboratory setting, whereas GL as applying more directly to a real-life setting. Research has shown that the GL reliably predicts, to within about 90 percent, how blood glucose will change after an actual meal – much better than simply counting carbohydrates as people with diabetes have been taught to do.”
― David Ludwig, Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently

“It is true that neural tissue imposes significant metabolic demands on organisms that natural selection will tend to shed if doing so is beneficial. It is also true that brain size has been reduced in many animal lineages for whom the metabolic costs of cognitive substrate outweigh the benefits of enhanced cognition. This is poignantly illustrated by secondarily herbivorous vertebrates (like panda's) whose calorie-frugal diet can no longer sustain their carnivorous clade's historical brain tissue expenditures. It is the case as well for lineages whose ecology calls for the reduction of neurologically demanding somato-sensory functions, such as 'cavefish' - several groups of freshwater fish adapted to lightless underground habitats that have repeatedly lost portions of the cortex dedicated to visual processing. The loss of a complex head is thus not totally inconceivable.”
― Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

“How is it that food STILL contains calories that make you gain weight in the 21st CENTURY?! It’s like scientists aren’t even trying!”
― Comic Strip Mama

“There's no sense beating around the bush, it doesn't burn that many calories." from Split the Uprights”
― Davee Jones, Split the Uprights

“Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts; but those who have fats in their positive ideas.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“...Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant...”
― Gary Taubes

“When I was lecturing recently to a group of cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic I said...

Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant.

If someone's getting fatter I guarantee you they're taking more energy than they expend (as long as they're getting heavier). And if they're getting leaner I guarantee they're expending more than they're taking in. [It's] given, let's never discuss it again. And if you say it to your patients you're telling them nothing

(University Of Colorado Medical School, May 9th 2013 - via YouTube)”
― Gary Taubes

“The energy balance equation is incomplete. It doesn’t include the most vital variable of all: the human element.”
― Martin Berkhan, The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.

“Tackling plateaus is what clueless people on the internet do instead of tracking, reviewing, and deciding. Wrestling with plateaus is what people do instead of waiting.”
― Martin Berkhan, The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.

“The only thing I'm not afraid of losing is my calories. But also, the only thing that doesn't leave me is my calories.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Hypoglycemia makes you fatigued and sleepy after a large intake of calories.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Exercise up, calories down!”
― Steven Magee

“It pays to be fat during war due to the food shortages.”
― Steven Magee