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In Jesus the kingdom of God has apocalyptically invaded the world, and as this is an invasion of love it’s a tactical engagement. Love is guerilla warfare. A great campaign of sabotage.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
I believe the reason that animals on a low-calorie diet live longer is that there is a cost to putting on fat. The food we eat is either broken down into immediate energy (which we call adenosine triphosphate, or ATP) or turned into stored energy (such as fat). Usually the calories we eat are turned into immediately available ATP. To instead store these calories for later, our cells must reduce the production of ATP and divert the excess calories to fat. Our research group determined that this is done through exposing the cells’ “energy factories” (also known as mitochondria), where most of the ATP is produced, to a phenomenon called oxidative stress. Thus, the cost of storing fat is some oxidative stress to our energy factories. If sustained for decades, this stress can lead to reduced function in—and even the loss of—these factories, which are responsible for the energy we need to maintain our bodies at full throttle.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Richard Johnson and David Perlmutter
Sixty years of modern psychological research has shown these insights on the value of challenges to be true. When we persevere through adversity (challenge), we develop character (maturity) and continue to grow.
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
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