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Quotations about Junk Food
No one who hopes to accomplish anything in life can afford to feed his brain with poor fuel. ~Orison Swett Marden, "Can You Finance Yourself," Everybody Ahead: Getting the Most Out of Life, 1916
Marcie: How can you pig-out on all that junk food every day, sir?
Peppermint Patty: Life is more than carrot sticks, Marcie.
~Charles Schulz, Peanuts, 1979
You can do a lot for your diet by eliminating foods that have mascots. ~Ted Spiker
Tyler turned down the candy because it would make him run slower. ~Chris Powell/Ashley Hylton, Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition
Dietician Von Eiffel controls the Wuff-Whiffer,
our Diet-Devising Computerized Sniffer,
on which you just simply lie down in repose
and sniff at good food as it goes past your nose...
he'll find out by Sniff-Scan the foods you like most.
And when that guy finds out
what you like,
you can bet it
won't be on your diet.
From here on, forget it!
~Dr. Seuss, You're Only Old Once!, 1986
The adulteration of food and drinks has become almost as general as the use of the article itself. Scarcely an article used by men in civilized countries has escaped this process, where it was possible to unite some cheaper substance with it. Flour, coffee, tea, sugar, butter and a hundred other articles that undergo this adulteration process. The methods have been so often exposed, that the public are tolerably acquainted with the manipulations these substances undergo at the hands of experts. ~"What We Eat," Gleason's Monthly Companion, 1879
The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey
Why throw trash into the treasure-house of your body? ~Terri Guillemets, "Junk food curse," 2007
This country is just beginning to feel that it is at war. The sugar shortage is one of the greatest blessings that ever happened to the people of this country, and if it will have done nothing better than to teach us that we can do without sugar, the war will have paid for itself.... The Lord never intended the child to develop a sweet tooth. He knew it would be a bad tooth.... Sugar is the curse of this country. ~Harvey W. Wiley, "The Teeth in War Time," 1918 January 27th, delivered at the Free Public Health Lecture Course of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children ["It does not matter if we eat unrefined sugar. It is the best sugar in the world. I do not care what the American Refining Company says in page advertisements." Ibid.
So-called food may, as we know, happen to be not food, but poison. ~H. A. Overstreet, About Ourselves: Psychology for Normal People, 1927
Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the living machine. ~Ellen Gould White (1827–1915)
Inside our bodies, junk food converts to chaos. ~Terri Guillemets
Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life! ~Bernard Shaw
The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Okay, I get his point nutritionally, but they're such great comfort food when you're sick or sad.
For as nutrition is the best friend a human body ever has, so its worst enemy is stimulation. ~Dr. James C. Jackson, speech, May 1885, to the patients at Our Home on the Hillside
If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? ~Terri Guillemets, "Soiled," 2003
Ducky: Do you even know the difference between good and bad cholesterol...?
Tony: No, but I'm assuming it has something to do with taste.
~NCIS, "Mind Games," 2005, teleplay by Jeffrey A. Kirkpatrick and John C. Kelley
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. ~Joan Gussow, 1986
...processed cheese food, "stale cheddar, reworked with chemicals"... ~Leonard Louis Levinson, Webster's Unafraid Dictionary, 1967
We come now to our own land, with which from the cheese-lover's viewpoint we may merge our good neighbor Canada. A Rembrandtesque picture presents itself, a dramatic mingling of light and shade.
The blackest shadow, of course, is cast by processed "cheese." The word should always, like Soviet "democracy," be framed in quotes, for no matter what the law may say, I refuse to call this cheese.... It represents the triumph of technology over conscience....
Bernard Shaw once warned us (he was speaking of mass entertainment) to be sure to get what we liked; otherwise we might begin to like what we got. There is the point—not that processed "cheese" is so bad in itself (though it is) but that its convenience, neatness, and cheapness give it so many advantages that it may elbow real cheese aside and in the end compass the death of our cheese-palates. Let us not be fooled. My guinea-pig son, aged one year and seven months, was not: fed a "cheese spread," he spat it out; fed a tiny bit of Stilton he took to it like an angel. Give our American children the processed corpse of milk and they will grow (I dare not say mature) into processed men, all package and no character.
~Clifton Fadiman, "The Cheese Stands Alone," Any Number Can Play, 1957
If you plant junk food in your body garden, how do you expect to harvest health? ~Terri Guillemets
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