DIET

Related Subjects: Digestion, Eating, Food, Health

1. Food improperly taken, not only produces diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may, intemperance is its mother.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat twice as much as nature requires.—FRANKLIN
   

3. Now learn what and how great benefits a temperate diet will bring along with it. In the first place you will enjoy good health.—HORACE, Satires
   

4. Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.—PLINY THE ELDER
   

5. Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.—Proverb
   

6. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half-starved of other countries.—SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE