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“The intense focus on weight loss suggests that obesity must be uniquely deadly, but that’s far from true. Low fitness, smoking, high blood pressure,41 low income,42 and loneliness43 are all better predictors of early death than obesity, when considered individually.”
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
― Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
“He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.”
― North and South
― North and South
“I am convinced it is, then our churches are filled with believers who are hurting, to one degree or another, whether visible or unseen. Some come every Sunday clinging to a thread of hope that somehow the church will be the body of Christ that supports them, offers a word of hope, and helps them find a way to walk through the storm with God instead of without God.”
― Hurting with God
― Hurting with God
“We all say we want The Truth, but we all want our secrets kept.”
― Little Wolves
― Little Wolves
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