Calories Quotes
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Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
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Trinny is on the wrong side of skinny, but not anorexic, one of those people who burn calories because they never sit down.
trinny woodall— Fiona Neill in "Retail therapists" in The Times (14 July 2007)
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent
— Michael Pollan, in Costs of Eating Well in "Costs of Eating Well"
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
— Michael Pollan, in The Cheapest Calories Make You the Fattest: A food-chain journalist looks for stories in our meals (30 September 2004)
