The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
Interpretation
Food that is enjoyable often has negative health consequences.
Isaac Asimov's quote highlights the irony that foods that are most pleasurable to eat are frequently those that are unhealthy or detrimental to our well-being. This statement reflects a common belief in dietetics that taste and health can be at odds, suggesting that indulgence in delicious foods may come with hidden costs to our health.
In practice
In a nutrition seminar discussing the balance between pleasure and health in food choices.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep.
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'
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