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Quote of the Day
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. —Italian proverb
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The disillusion with socialism and other forms of collectivism, which became the dominant spirit of the 1980s, was only one aspect of a much wider loss of faith in the state as an agency of benevolence. The state was, up to … Continue reading
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“It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.” -Margaret Mead
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Science-Based Medicine published a recent post on the state of American Psychiatry and mental illness. It’s well worth a look if you’re interested in such things. Here’s a quote: “The tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders … Continue reading
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White flour is better suited to glue for kindergarten art projects than to nutrition. —Drs. Westman, Phinney, and Volek in The New Atkins for a New You
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The first flavor we experience in infancy is the sweet taste of milk. We learn to associate it with comfort, security and love. During childhood, we are offered sweet treats to cheer us up when we are sad, to reward … Continue reading
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The History of Diabetic Diets
Diet has always generated passion, and passion in science is an infallible marker of lack of evidence. That sentence is from a wonderful review of diabetic diet cycles over the last 150 years. It’s by L. Sawyer and E.A.M Gale, … Continue reading
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Regarding complementary and alternative medicine: The sciences give a mostly coherent understanding of the world. Mostly coherent. [They do] give an understanding of the possible, the probable, the improbable and the impossible. Most of the sciences, unlike parts of medical science, are … Continue reading
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Certainly, by the last decade of the [20th] century, some lessons had plainly been learned. But it was not yet clear whether the underlying evils which had made possible its catastrophic failures and tragedies—the rise of moral relativism, the decline … Continue reading
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Here’s one the paleo diet advocates will like. The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. —Edward Jenner (1749-1823), of smallpox vaccination … Continue reading
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