Diary of a Dieting Madhouse Quotes

“Food is sold in gas stations, bookstores and department stores, and belt-busting meals are available everywhere. Then there is supersizing! It is not uncommon to be served a meal that contains 1,500 to 2,000 calories, about what you would need for an entire day. Even the healthy, sensible eater is constantly tempted. Since, like me, you are most likely a food addict, or at least food obsessed, imagine how a heroin addict would feel if her drug of choice were hawked on every street corner.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler,[34] shows that foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain’s chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“In order to raise food animals under the stressful conditions of modern factory farming, American cows and pigs are full of hormones like diethyl stilbestrol (DES) (a growth simulator), pesticides that are used on animal feed, and antibiotics. Massive doses of antibiotics are needed because animals are stressed in conditions of overcrowding, with no sunshine and no fresh air. This causes illness, which is treated by massive doses of antibiotics.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“A 2006 report by the Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative reported that the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, contributing to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change and loss of biodiversity.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“Imagine what we could accomplish if modern medicine combined the best that allopathic medicine has to offer, the Placebo Effect and the benefits of appropriate diet and exercise.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“The cancer community has published an extraordinary 150,855 experimental studies on mice, according to a search of the PubMed database. Guess how many of them have led to treatments for cancer? Very few treatments and NO CURES. In fact, if you want to understand where the War on Cancer has gone wrong, the mouse is a pretty good place to start.[25]”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“Every time you make a contribution to an organization purported searching for a “cure,’ such as the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the United Way, or any other such institution, you are helping maintain the status quo. Plus, you are helping researchers torture, usually for years and always for no reason, millions of helpless, innocent animals.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“Try taking a guy’s meat away and many of them are going to scream like little girls. There are a lot of men, the majority, who say they could never give it up. To them, meat represents masculinity. But when you understand the effect fat and cholesterol have on a guy’s penis (the same as on the arteries of the heart), it doesn’t sound masculine at all. At age 50, 50% of men will have erectile dysfunction. The percentages increase proportionately every decade after that. Clogged penis arteries are caused by the same thing that clogs the arteries to the heart: meat, dairy products, saturated fat.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“With a $206.5 million annual budget dedicated to confusing people and covering up the truth, there is no hope of regulating the dairy industry and making them tell the truth about their products.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“The increase in infections in people who are resistant to Cipro and its chemical cousins is directly tied to the use of antibiotics on poultry farms.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“When you unwrap that chicken carcass you bought at the grocery store, the “juice” oozing from its body and preserved in the package is called “fecal soup.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse

“The world of food is filled with madness. You can see it all around you, when a large percentage of adults and a scary number of children are obese. What we think we know, what we are told, what we are sold and how it is sold to us, make for a pretty good horror show.”
― Paige Singleton, Diary of a Dieting Madhouse