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If I believed terrorists were beyond redemption, I would need to rip out half of my New Testament Scriptures, for they were written by a converted terrorist.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
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
The Level 4 leader, on the other hand, takes responsibility for the relationship and finds a way to make it more productive. Challenges, even in broken relationships, force us to reevaluate and grow, so the areas where we are most significantly challenged (for many of us, our careers) are where we grow first into Level 4.
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
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