David Gusmão

“In fact, a study done in Norway a few years ago looked at the issue of cholesterol and blood pressure targets in more detail. Using guidelines developed by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) they established that, by the age of 50, over 95% of people would have a cholesterol level, or blood pressure level, considered high enough to require drug treatment.[2] This is despite the fact that the Norwegians are amongst the healthiest and longest-lived people on the planet. So God knows where that leaves the rest of us.”
― Malcolm Kendrick, Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense

“Are we just an ordinary animal that happens to enjoy the tastes and securities of cooked food without in any way depending on them? Or are we a new kind of species tied to the use of fire by our biological needs, relying on cooked food to supply enough energy to our bodies?”
― Richard W. Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“I believe the transformative moment that gave rise to the genus Homo, one of the great transitions in the history of life, stemmed from the control of fire and the advent of cooked meals.”
― Richard W. Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“the ideas presented in this book culminate a century of research questioning the calorie balance model of obesity, and represent a fundamentally different way to understand why we gain weight and what we can do about it.7”
― David S. Ludwig, Always Hungry?: Conquer cravings, retrain your fat cells and lose weight permanently