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  1. “Brower articulates, “when fed and led well, a strong body helps us see the mind’s hilarious machinations more clearly.” Indeed, life is a lot more pleasant when we learn to see our thoughts not as grave realities to be reacted to, but as harmless, almost comical, little clouds that float in and out of consciousness.”

    www.forbes.com
    admelfo

  2. “It costs considerably less per year, obviously, to undertake a low-fat, plant-based diet as the sole treatment for cardiovascular disease. But while that is great for the bank accounts of patients, it is also a part of the problem. Medical facilities are not anxious to forego their cut of that $13 billion a year heart bypass industry which open heart surgery provides.”

    www.disinfo.com
    admelfo

  3. “It boggles my mind that such a large segment of the so-called health and fitness community would continue to defend high carbohydrate diets with such tenacity. It should all be very obvious by now. The studies keep piling up indicating that carbohydrate intake is the major variable in determining body composition and that excess glucose from carbohydrate intake (especially from processed grains and sugars) is the primary culprit in obesity and in many disease processes. It follows logically that if you can limit carb intake to a range of which is absolutely necessary (and even up to 50 grams a day over) and make the difference up with tasty fats and protein, you can literally reprogram your genes back to the evolutionary-based factory setting you had at birth – the setting that offered you the opportunity to start life as a truly efficient fat-burning organism and to continue to do so for the rest of your life as long as you send the right signals to your genes.”

    www.marksdailyapple.com
    admelfo

  4. “As he worked forward through the evolution of these theories, he noticed a persistent pattern that included employment of dubious data and statistics, unscientific reasoning, and statistical manipulation designed to make trivial differences seem significant. A number of these practices bordered on outright scientific fraud. One distinguished researcher, George V. Mann ScD, M.D., professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, called the Diet-Heart Theory “the greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century---perhaps any century.””

    www.prweb.com
    admelfo

  5. “Prior to 1900, about 4 percent of America's calories came from fructose, while today's teens get roughly 12 percent of their calories that way. Since sugar and corn syrup are equally efficient as fructose delivery vehicles, the obvious conclusion is simply that we're consuming too many sweets. As for the HFCS-vs.-sugar smackdown, you might as well debate whether whiskey is healthier than rum. "In high-enough quantities, they're both poison," says Lustig.”

    motherjones.com
    admelfo

  6. “The aspect one cannot argue is nutrition: Incredibly, the McDonald’s product contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a McDonald’s cheeseburger or Egg McMuffin. (Even without the brown sugar it has more calories than a McDonald’s hamburger.)”

    opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
    Zelnox

  7. “"War and good health are incompatible."”

    www.huffingtonpost.com
    protoslacker