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After all, just reducing junk food didn’t work. Junk food proved to be the exception to the “everything in moderation” slogan. More precisely, I learned how immediately the body’s metabolism was impaired with just a small amount of processed carbohydrate, or even a healthy product with added sugar. I forged ahead to better understand, and eventually the discipline reaped amazing results.
The Overfat Pandemic
Philip Maffetone
Sleep plays a major role in brain health, especially as we get older, not only in terms of daily cognitive function but also in terms of our long-term cognitive health, a crucial pillar of healthspan.
These were the months in which Senator Arthur Vandenberg was brooding in his Wardman Park1 apartment, making his historic pivot toward faith in the viability of international interdependence. Crouched in a London air raid shelter as German robot bombs rocked the ground overhead, he had asked his escort, “How can there be immunity or isolation when man can devise weapons like that?” Vandenberg broke the power of his party’s go-it-alone faction when he told a hushed Senate, “I have always been frankly one of those who believed in our own self-reliance. I still believe that we can never again—regardless of collaborations—allow our national defense to deteriorate to anything like a point of impotence. But I do not believe that any nation hereafter can immunize itself by its own exclusive action…. I want maximum American cooperation…. I want a new dignity and a new authority for international law. I think self-interest requires it.”
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
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