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“It’s really the day to day stuff that matters most. What you eat on special occasions is insignificant compared to what you eat day in and day out, so don’t beat yourself up if you really want to put edible bacon flavored candles on your birthday cake. Your body has a remarkable ability to recover from sporadic insults as long as you’re not habitually poking it with a fork.”

“The problem with All or Nothing thinking is that it keeps people from even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week. Why not scale it down to once a month or reserve it for special occasions? We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

“If your intent is to shovel as many calories as possible into your mouth for the least amount of money, then healthier foods lose out. But, if you want to shovel the most nutrition into your mouth as cheaply as possible, look no further than the produce aisle. Spending just 50 cents more per day on fruits and vegetables may buy you a 10% drop in mortality. Now that’s a bargain!”

“Meat costs about 3x more than vegetables, yet yields 16x less nutrition based on an aggregate of nutrients. Because meat is less nutritious and it costs more, vegetables get you 48x more nutrition per dollar than meat.”

If the AMA standards are to be believed, some docs would have to work over 24 hrs/day to perform all procedures they report to insurance

“Who is in charge of setting the prices? The American Medical Association. A washington post investigation exposed that each year, a secretive AMA committee determines billing standards for common procedures. The result is gross overestimates for the time it takes to perform common services like colonoscopies.”

“An exposé in the NYT on spiraling healthcare costs noted that in many other developed countries, colonoscopies cost just a few hundred dollars. In the USA, the procedure can cost up to thousands, which has less to do with providing top notch medical care and more with business plans aimed at maximizing revenue, marketing, and lobbying.”

“The use of slaughterhouse byproduct in animal feed can recycle both toxic heavy metals and industrial chemicals back into the food supply. Lead accumulates in animal bones and mercury in animal protein, which is why egg whites contain up to 20x more mercury than do the yolks.”

“When we feed farm animals millions of tons of meat and bone meal, we’re also feeding them any pollutants this feed may contain. Then, after those animals are slaughtered, their trimmings go to feed the next generation of farm animals, concentrating the pollutant levels higher and higher. So we end up like polar bears or eagles at the top of the food chain and suffer the biomagnified pollutant consequences.”