Greg Motter

“Holt’s work on satiety provides a solution to the Diet Wars, the terms of a truce for any warriors willing to listen. Diets that work, including both low-carb and low-fat varieties, are effective because they cut out low-satiety foods and help us feel full on fewer calories. Vegetables, fruits, meat, and fish can all be part of a healthy diet, as long as we avoid foods that prod us to overconsume”
― Herman Pontzer, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy

“I can’t believe you fell for that,” said Joshua. He ran across the water and helped us pull Peter into the boat. “Peter”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Our brains form, strengthen, and prune synapses throughout our lives (it’s happening in your brain right now as you form new memories from reading this book) but by far the most active period is in childhood, when we’re soaking up the world around us. Work by Christopher Kuzawa and colleagues has shown that in children three to seven years old, the brain accounts for over 60 percent of BMR, three times more than in adults. So much energy is channeled to the brain during these early critical years that it actually slows down growth in the rest of the body.”
― Herman Pontzer, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy

“The final mode is misplaced faith. It involves the sort of self-deifying claims a president made when he said that “I alone can solve it” or “I am your retribution.” When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that “understanding is useless, you have to have faith. I believe in the Führer.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century