- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fat Quotes
Weight, humor, and the will to change it.
One line here is pure self-deprecating humor about carrying extra weight, while another recalls a memorably sweaty music-video moment built around a bigger-than-life performer. See Fat Man quotes for more in that vein.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies.
- Average American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products.
- Health Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.
- Cause
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- Nov 07, 2020
When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.
- Clog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
- Juice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020