Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren’t for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn’t so when stripped of personal risks.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Food is an inescapable fact of life, and the task for each of us is to find a way to make our peace with it. Disordered eating is very different from alcohol addiction, whose cure is sobriety. When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new foods in new ways.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
In a busy life, the organization required for regular, shared dinners can seem unattainable; even if they can manage the shopping and the cooking, parents often hesitate to assume the authority to gather everyone together to eat, never mind to insist that everyone eat the same food. But the experience of eating disorders shows that this is partly a
... See moreBee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
We are all familiar, of course, with the truism “You are what you eat.” But over the past generation we have learned more and more about the nature of our hungers and how incredibly malleable they are. Scientists and authors like Brian Wansink and Michael Pollan have pointed out how our hungers are learned.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
If we experience healthy food as a coercion—as something requiring willpower—it can never taste delicious.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
