Heard and Read

"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."

-Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Spanish novelist

in Don Quixote (1605 and 1615)

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

-Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), English novelist

in A Room of One's Own (1930)

"Malnutrition is an indicator of economic plight-it really goes up and down with the economic situation."

-Dr. Demetria Bongga, president

Nutritionist-Dietitians Association of the Philippines

"For you to be able to function properly, you have to satisfy your requirements for the micronutrients…That will not be satisfied by your burger."

-Ms. Imelda Cardino, nutritionist-dietitian

Nutritionist-Dietitians Association of the Philippines

"A physician is basically a human being, educated and trained to serve the sick of mankind, guided by the Hippocratic Oath and Code of Ethics of the profession, who has earned the trust and confidence of society not by force, legislation, or commerce of man but by the simple act of service to the sick."

-Dr. Homobono Calleja, cardiologist

in the book, In Defense of the Physician (1999)

"We encourage breast-feeding [in premature and low-birth-weight infants] but we supplement it with one or two feedings of premature formula or fortified breast milk."

-Dr. Robert Hall, Division of Human Development chief

Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, USA

"We don't believe in such a thing as junk food. Paano magiging junk food yan nagbibigay din ng calories yan…ng fats, ng carbohydrates?"

-Ms. Adelisa Cifra-Ramos, head

Sangkap Pinoy Program Technical Committee