The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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