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A tip for guys who like to wear speedos. It helps to carry a potato in your speedo. But make sure you wear it in the front. — Keaton (comment No.23)

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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.                                                      —Jackie Gleason

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out…                                                        —Robert Collier

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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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