Nobody has ever seen a calorie. But calories are agonizingly visible when they settle down on you in the wrong places.
It may seem strange that a thing which has no physical existence can make you fat. A square inch has no flavor and neither has a calorie. You can’t touch a calorie any more [...]

Many of us, through habit or inertia or the demands of daily living, fall into a pattern of eating a simple, reiterative and uninteresting diet. A diet may be reasonably adequate in terms of nutrition, but it’s dull. And because eat we must, it’s worthwhile to take a little time to make a diet interesting [...]