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21 " A few decades from now, the current laissez-faire attitudes to sugar - now present in 80 per cent of supermarket foods - may seems as reckless and strange as permitting cars without seatbelts or smoking on aeroplanes. "
― , First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
22 " Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself. "
23 " Siblings have always marked out territory through food. "
24 " The power siblings have over our eating habits is no small thing. yet we hardly ever talk about these familial influences. "
25 " Hunger is always a kind of emptiness - an absence of nourishment - but what it will take to replenish it is far from obvious. "
26 " Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health. "
27 " Part of the magic of childhood for most of us, looking back, was the sensation of freedom in your own body - the feeling that these legs were made for skipping. "
28 " The needs of the eating disorder sufferer are like a warped version of the travails we all face when learning to eat. "
29 " Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat. "
30 " When you are eating all the time, food curiously loses much of its joy, along with its sense of ceremony and sociability. "