Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.
I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.
In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.
It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.
I'm not gonna lie: I'm kinda the worst with a diet.
In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.
I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.
One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.
I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
I looked around and couldn't believe no one has written a show about women and eating. It's the biggest issue women have.
I've gone through literally over 30 years of struggle with weight and food and body image... and I'm like, 'Wait a minute.'
I've battled food issues since my late teens.
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.
The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.
