There is no question that traditional approaches for acute traumas
(heart attack, stroke, accidents, etc.) are valuable and should not
be abandoned. However, overall, when drugs and surgery are used to
address chronic illness, it is generally a prescription for disaster.
 - Dr. J. Mercola, July 2005
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Avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates. Some people over 100 smoke and
drink. Some have high cholesterol, some low. Some exercise, some are
inactive. But there is one common denominator - all long-lived people
have relatively low insulin levels. - Jon Herring, October 2005
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The easiest way to save millions of lives from early deaths and painful
conditions is simple: don't drink sugar. It may not be politically correct
(yet) to stop serving sugar to our kids, but hey, it took decades to make
smoking socially unacceptable. How long will it take parents to stop
poisoning their children? - Tyler Lackey, August 2004
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Q: What is your secret, you incredible shrinking woman?
   (Please tell me it comes packaged in an affordable pill.)
A: I lost almost 200 pounds through diet and exercise. [...]
   If you're looking for a magic bullet, talk to Harry Potter, not me.
 - Jennette Fulda, "PastaQueen"
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My dream is that in 500 years (or less) humanity will look back at what
passes for psychology today in the same way that we now look back on the
dark ages, when they were drilling holes in people's heads to drain out
the crazy. Oh wait, we were still doing that in the twentieth century
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy). - Phillip J. Eby, February 2008
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For 50 years, the author cracked the knuckles of his left hand at least
twice a day, leaving those on the right as a control. Thus, the knuckles
on the left were cracked at least 36,500 times, while those on the right
cracked rarely and spontaneously. [...] There was no arthritis in either
hand, and no apparent differences between the two hands.
 - Donald Unger, 1988, cited by Scientific American, 2009
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In the 1970s and 80s British doctors told mothers to put their
babies to sleep face-down. Cot deaths soared, until a campaign
by one nurse succeeded in changing this policy, which we now
know to have claimed something like 15,000 lives.
 - Joe Jackson, "Smoke, Lies, and the Nanny State", 2007
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There is a great deal of evidence that moderate smoking - up to about
ten a day - is not harmful, and indeed has clear benefits. [...] it
relieves stress, helps with weight control, and protects against or
relieves the symptoms of quite a few diseases, including Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's, ulcerative colitis, and cancers of the intestines and womb.
 - Joe Jackson, "Smoke, Lies, and the Nanny State", 2007
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Because there is a "shelf-life" for sperm cells - they remain viable for
only 5-7 days after production - and because adult human males manufact-
ure a whopping 3 million sperm per day, masturbation is an evolved stra-
tegy for shedding old sperm while making room for new, fitter sperm. It
is quality over quantity. - Jesse Bering, Scientific American, June 2010
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The evidence supports the notion that male castration might be the
ticket to a longer life. [...] Nevertheless, I doubt that many men
- myself included - would choose such a drastic remedy to buy a few
extra years. - Thomas Kirkwood, Scientific American, October 2010
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Let your vagina clean itself. It is acidic for a reason,
and no, it’s not supposed to smell like a flower.
It’s supposed to smell like a vagina.
 - Dr. Kate Clancy, Scientific American blogger, August 2011