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“For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info u need.”
“In our environment—which provides intense motivation for overeating while the culture insists that everyone should remain extremely thin—many people have developed a difficult relationship with food.”
― 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
“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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“We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.”
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“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ”
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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
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Vicki’s 2024 Year in Books
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