Robert Lustig famous quotes
03-28-2025
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Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.
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The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to believe that because it works for them. If a calorie is a calorie, then why would you pick on any individual food stuff?
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We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.
-- Robert Lustig
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Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
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I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff†school of thought.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
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Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.
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I need to die for the killing of those people.
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The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
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Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.
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