Sebastian Junger Quotes

I don't know how my body would react if I don't eat for 10 days. In order to go through that experience, I almost did not eat or drink water for 15-20 days. I only had one carrot a day, a cup of black coffee, and a few sips of water.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

I tried a juice cleanse, and it was a total disaster. For the eight hours that I lasted, I felt like I was on the brink of starvation. For me, it's about making the right choices.

I tried a juice cleanse once, and by the third day, I wanted to kill everyone. I honestly don't even think it's healthy. It's not good for you to just drink juice. Like, if you detox for one or two days, fine, but a 10- or 14-day juice cleanse? You have headaches, and I was in the worst moods. I couldn't do it. Starving.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

Food is a weapon.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight.

There are at least 1 billion people who struggle for basic caloric protein sufficiency; probably another 2 billion people … who have serious micronutrient deficiency… We don’t have a healthy food supply for the world, nor is it assured for the future.

In my extreme youth I did a terrifying diet - drinking 40 cups of liquid a day.

You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.

If I want to detox, I'll do the juicing thing for sure. I'll have two juices and then a solid meal for either dinner or lunch.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

That which could hunger, could starve.

If your diet is dialed in, you can train in a pretty subpar manner and still get passable results. On the other hand, if your training is fantastic but your diet is crap, you have a harder road ahead of you.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.