Vicki Stevens

“The intense focus on weight loss suggests that obesity must be uniquely deadly, but that’s far from true. Low fitness, smoking, high blood pressure,41 low income,42 and loneliness43 are all better predictors of early death than obesity, when considered individually.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“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.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Because low-calorie dieting leads to the production of stress hormones, being on a diet can directly impair the willpower that is needed to succeed in resisting temptation”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss