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#1 Don't be afraid of fat! It's not unhealthy; it's essential to your health.
#2 Norman was a type 2 diabetic with high blood pressure. He had severe gum disease, which meant his last teeth would have to be extracted before he could be cleared for heart surgery. His dental disease was severe, but he wasn't an outlier.
#3 As a dentist, you should be able to put people...
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#1 You can't mess up because you can't stop altogether. As long as you get right back on track, you will keep making progress. The hardest part of losing weight, getting stronger, and becoming healthier isn't figuring out what to eat or finding the perfect workout plan; it's cultivating a mindset that allows you to believe in your ability to succeed.
#2 There is a common...
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#1 Doctors are not superhuman. They are human beings who went through a very demanding and tricky path to become doctors. Some are there only for the money and prestige, but most are there because they want to be important in their patients' lives and help lots of people.
#2 The day-to-day life of a doctor was a mystery to us, but we still wanted to live it. Many doctors, when they...
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#1 I met with John, a middle-aged man who hoped the Alexander Technique would help him rid himself of the pain he experienced from his frozen right shoulder. His arms were pressed inward against his ribs.
#2 We often don't know we are doing something, like tensing our neck muscles when we move our head. It is surprising how much we don't notice about how we use...
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#1 The comprehensive lifestyle program in this book can lower cholesterol and blood pressure more than has ever been reported without drugs. It can even begin to reverse severe coronary heart disease in many people.
#2 In his book, The Lifestyle Heart Program, Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a comprehensive lifestyle program that lowers cholesterol and blood pressure more...
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#1 The health of our society is in critical condition, and the main cause is lifestyle-related diseases. If so much suffering and its attendant costs could be prevented through better nutrition, then why haven't we done so.
#2 The United States has become very fixated on magic pills, which does not suggest health, but rather the normalcy of disease.
#3 The economic...
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#1 The rise of social media has transformed the landscape of nutrition. Unfortunately, most of this content is of unreliable quality and reinforces inaccurate ideals of health and body image.
#2 You cannot spot-reduce body fat. You cannot control where your body stores excess fat. You cannot control how easily you can gain or lose body fat. You cannot control how long...
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#1 Food is a common addiction for many people. They eat to fill a void inside them, whether it's an abusive childhood or just the pains of life. But food only dulls them more.
#2 When we reach for those powdered-sugar doughnuts, it is not because we are addicted to the white coating or the dense cake, but because we are addicted to fulfillment. We are unable to find...
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#1 The liver is the main organ responsible for distributing and maintaining the body's fuel supply. It also deactivates hormones, alcohol, and medicinal drugs. It modifies these biologically active substances so that they lose their potentially harmful effects.
#2 The liver and gallbladder cleanse helps to restore homeostasis, balances weight, and sets the precondition...
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#1 The town of Molochio in Calabria, Italy, has the highest proportion of centenarians in the world. The fountain there was discovered to be the source of the town's longevity, as low-protein diets based on the eating habits of the town's elders are linked to low cancer and overall mortality rates in the US population.
#2 I have lived the full range of good, bad, and...
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#1 A doctor in Minneapolis decided to cure himself of his various illnesses by fasting for 10 days. He went from being hungry to not thinking about food at all, and when his ailments got better, he continued fasting. While he didn't reach his goal of 12 days, he did reach his goal of not eating anything and lived to tell the tale.
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#1 The five life forces are: Nutrition, Hydration, Oxygenation, Alkalization, and Detoxification. We need to pay attention to these five factors to control what kind of health we'll have.
#2 We must eat a wide variety of whole, fresh, clean foods-mostly vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts, seeds, grains, sprouts, and healthy fats. Eat a lot of it raw.
#3 The Mediterranean...
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#1 The second year of life is when many GAPS children start developing fussy eating habits, refusing a lot of foodstuffs and limiting their diet to a handful of foods. They would often refuse to have vegetables, fruit, meats, fish, and eggs.
#2 The symptoms of autism are extremely uncomfortable for children, who cannot communicate their feelings to their parents....
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#1 The latest calcium and heart health study concluded that women who supplement with calcium to prevent osteoporosis are at a higher risk of atherosclerosis, heart attack, and stroke than those who don't.
#2 The real question to ask is, How can the body safely guide calcium into the bones where it helps us, and keep it away from soft tissues like arteries where it harms...
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#1 You're ready to drop the old struggle and put your energy into something new and bold. You've probably found that there is a price to be paid for sacrificing who you are, and it's more painful than facing the fear of opening up to be seen, heard, and known for all that you are. Stop waiting-this moment is as good as any.
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#1 The fitness industry is filled with gimmicks and unrealistic promises. This book is about getting back to the basics by using tried and proven bodyweight training tactics to get you moving, feeling, and looking better.
#2 Bodyweight training is a zero-excuse fitness experience because it eliminates so many of those common excuses for why people can't exercise. It's...
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#1 You've made the choice to show up for life bright-eyed, energetic, vibrant, glowing, and healthy. You no longer want to see beauty and feel beautiful only when under a cover of foundation and lipstick. You want your best self in every breath, thought, step, and yes, every bite.
#2 The foods that damage your skin, hair, and nails are the Beauty Betrayers. They cause...
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#1 Humans are comparatively poor athletes on land. The world's fastest humans can only sprint about 23 miles per hour for about half a minute. Humans almost always hunt with weapons because no person could ever match a chimp for speed, power, and agility.
#2 The first major transformation in human evolution was bipedalism, the ability to stand and walk on two feet. The...
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#1 The origins of coffee are lost in legend, but the most popular tale traces its discovery to a goatherd in Ethiopia. By the sixth century A. D., the plant had reached Arabia, where it was used as a food and medicine. Coffee beans were fermented to make wine, or dried, crushed, and eaten.
#2 The word coffee comes from the Arab word qahwah. The botanical name of the...
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