Friends, I’ve been silent for recent days as I chose to put extra attention on some things I valued. My fitness has continued to improve overall notwithstanding bumps in the road.
As recompense I hope you’ll find a chuckle and perhaps some food for thought in one of the following. I’ve not made any attempt to check sources, so believe attributions at your own risk. 
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recipe n. A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don’t own, to make a dish the dog won’t eat.
Author Unknown -
In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin -
But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.
Mark Twain -
A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen.
Emily Lotney -
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
English Proverb -
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
St Frances de Sales -
My soul is dark with stormy riot,
Directly traceable to diet.
Samuel Hoffenstein -
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
Lucretius -
All I ask of food is that it doesn’t harm me.
Michael Palin (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) -
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room’s altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Bryan Miller (NY Times Restaurant Critic) -
Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby -
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz -
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice - Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Loved the list, especially the quote from Bill Cosby