Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
If the children already born each have only two children themselves. . . in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.
One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U. S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population.
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U. S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.
It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations. . . The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations seems to have no name; but as it has probably reached its highest development in the biological study known as 'ecology,' this name may well be given to it.
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not choose where they're going to go or why they're fleeing, and they are unwanted populations. They bring with them the stigma of disaster.
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.
Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.
Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.