IT ALL BEGINS IN medias res, and if you’re lucky, it ends that way as well.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.”
― All In
― All In
“In our environment—which provides intense motivation for overeating while the culture insists that everyone should remain extremely thin—many people have developed a difficult relationship with food.”
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
―
“Take a moment to think about that. Doctors routinely recommend a treatment for obesity (dieting) that is likely to result in their patients’ gaining more weight. After one of my talks, a doctor told me that it felt unethical not to recommend dieting to her obese patients, but when I asked her about the ethics of prescribing a treatment with such a high failure rate, she fell silent.”
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
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