The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
Interpretation
Food that is enjoyable often has negative health consequences.
Isaac Asimov's quote highlights the irony that foods that are most pleasurable to eat are frequently those that are unhealthy or detrimental to our well-being. This statement reflects a common belief in dietetics that taste and health can be at odds, suggesting that indulgence in delicious foods may come with hidden costs to our health.
In practice
In a nutrition seminar discussing the balance between pleasure and health in food choices.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
Having an eating disorder doesn't show βstrength.β Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a βdietβ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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