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The Big Book’s chapter “We Agnostics” draws a line in the sand: “God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be?” (Alcoholics Anonymous, 53) Nature abhors a vacuum and a state of nothing can’t exist in either the material or spiritual
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“In 1993, mental health counsellor Kay Sheppard published a revised version of her signature work, Food Addiction: The Body Knows. Sheppard drew from her experience working with food addicts and did not mince words. “Food addiction is a chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal disease,” she wrote. “It is chronic because the condition never goes away, progressive because the symptoms always get worse over time, and fatal because those who persist in the disease will die an early death due to its complications.”
― Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction
― Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction
“The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.”
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“Put simply,” concluded a senior director at the George Institute for Global Health, “the enormous commercial success enjoyed by the food industry is now causing what promises to be one of the greatest public health disasters of our time.”
― How Not to Diet
― How Not to Diet
“Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?”
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“The reason some of the unhealthiest foods are marketed is one of simple economics: Real food goes bad. 751 Fruits and vegetables are perishable. What shareholders want is a snack cake that lasts for weeks on the shelf.”
― How Not to Diet
― How Not to Diet
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