Spanish Proverb The Belly Rules The Mind Meaning

For this week's discussion subject --"Nutrition," I decided to diversify our menu a little bit by providing here 18 food-related quotations for you to "digest." They are like a variety of foods, some are good, some not so good. They certainly should generate some reaction from you.
1. Read all 18 quotations and respond to at least three of them. You are welcome to respond to as many as you wish. (Minimum length: 200 words for each.)
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire
We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. ~Steve Elbert
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. ~William Osler
Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~Alfred E. Newman
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca
Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way, there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. ~Samuel Butler
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. ~Joan Gussow
In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson