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Familiar Quotations

Nutrition

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.–Richard Clark

Nutrition – "Food"

A seafood diet is the best--whenever you see food, eat it.–Anonymous

Food use for medicinal purposes never count, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast, and Sara Lee Cheesecake.–Anonymous

God gives every bird its food, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.–Anonymous

Soul food served here.–Anonymous

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake.–Anonymous

Hey, doll. Could you scare up another round for our table over here? And tell the cook this is low-grade dog food. I've had better food at the ball game, you know? This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it.–Caddyshack

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.–M. F. K. Fisher

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.–Redd Foxx

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.–Paul Goodman

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Nutrition 1
• Nutrition – "Food" 1
• Nutrition – "Nourishing" 2
• Nutrition – "Nourishment" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Nutrition 3
• Nutrition – "Blood" 8
• Nutrition – "Cases" 9
• Nutrition – "Diet" 9
• Nutrition – "Different" 10
• Nutrition – "Digesting" 10
• Nutrition – "Elements" 11
• Nutrition – "Food" 11
• Nutrition – "Fruit" 14
• Nutrition – "Heart" 15
• Nutrition – "Life" 15
• Nutrition – "Matter" 16
• Nutrition – "Nourishment" 16
• Nutrition – "Part" 16
• Nutrition – "Plant" 17
• Nutrition – "Process" 18
• Nutrition – "Supplies" 18
• Nutrition – "Value" 19
• Nutrition – "Water" 20
• Dietetics 20
• Nonfiction Usage 22
• Script Usage 22
• Presidential Usage 22
• Journalism Usage 22
• Legal Usage 77
• Governmental Usage 132
• Patent Usage 138
• Encyclopedic Usage 211
• Lexicographic Usage 218
• Index 266