The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.

When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within.

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

I need to have a cheesesteak.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.