Diet Cults Quotes

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, ‘Woo-hoo! What a ride.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“The only conclusion we can draw from the sum of these lessons is that there is no such thing as the One True Way to eat for maximum health.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“The Florida Gators soon developed a reputation as a dominant second-half team, and the secret to their endurance became known as Gatorade.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“chocolate is able to turn a bad mood into a good one, it is not able to make a good mood better. No wonder people who suffer from depression eat twice as much chocolate as others do.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“Even if it’s just a few pounds of performance-sapping excess body fat, there is always some cost to eating poorly. Other potential costs include iron deficiency anemia, stress fractures, and frequent upper respiratory tract infections—common health problems among competitive endurance athletes that are especially common among those with poor diets.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“By far the most important contributor to bone health is weight-bearing exercise.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“While dieting is, for most people, more effective than exercise in triggering weight loss, exercise is more effective than diet in maintaining a stable body weight following weight loss, which makes dieting without exercise rather pointless.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“it’s what you eat, not how hard you try to work it off, that matters more in losing weight.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“suggested that working out might also thwart weight loss—and even promote weight gain—by making people less active than they would otherwise be during the rest of the day.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“Human beings can live indefinitely on a diet in which potatoes are the sole source of food energy.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“This does not mean that what a person eats is completely irrelevant to weight loss. There are some important differences between the diets of successful losers and the diet of the average American. For example, successful losers eat more vegetables and fewer sweets. But within the population of successful losers, there is just as much individual diversity in eating patterns as there is outside of it. There is no general formula that we can point to and urge everyone to imitate. As helpful as it might be to say, “If you want to lose weight, you must eat this and not that,” we cannot do so in good faith. The registry members have taught us that there are more ways to lose weight than there are ways to win a chess game.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

“But science has not identified the healthiest way to eat. In fact, it has come as close as possible (because you can’t prove a negative) to confirming that there is no such thing as the healthiest diet.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults