Eating

• “Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It’s about mastering the art of letting go.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 309
• “Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature heart attacks in the United States. Imagine that—overeating is worse for you than smoking a pack a day. We’ve forced the smokers out of our restaurants and onto the sidewalk to light up, and yet you can still order an appetizer off the menu that delivers a day’s worth of calories and enough grease to turn your colon into a Roman candle. Go figure.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker) Page xii
• “What You Eat NOW Has a Profound Effect on What You’ll Eat LATER Scientists at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University found that eating foods that elevate your blood sugar trigger intense cravings for carbohydrates later on. In other words, eating a cookie begets eating more cookies and so on. Eating carbohydrates like baked goods and pasta or sugary foods, they say, promotes greater calorie consumption, not just now, but during the rest of the day. In 2008, the British Journal of Nutrition reported that consuming high-quality protein early in the day results in more sustained fullness compared with eating similar meals in the evening. A similar study at Purdue University found that men on a calorie-restricted diet had their hunger satisfied the longest when they were given extra protein at breakfast.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Paige 5
• “Leave something on your plate. Cleaning your plate makes for large bellies. In a Cornell University survey, researchers found that the heaviest participants said they stopped eating not when they felt full but when they felt they had made a significant dent in what they thought was a normal-sized plate of food.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Paige 6
• “Chew, chew, chew chew. Dutch researchers found that people who chewed large bites of food for 3 seconds consumed 52 percent more food before feeling full than those who chewed smaller bites for 9 seconds. Eating slower and talking between swallows also reduces calorie consumption, studies show.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Paige 6