Advanced Mediterranean Diet

Health care insurance doesn’t mean access to medical care any more than car insurance means you have access to a car.

                                                         -WhiteCoat’s Call Room, October 6, 2010

Certainly, by the last decade of the [20th] century, some lessons had plainly been learned.  But it was not yet clear whether the underlying evils which had made possible its catastrophic failures and tragedies—the rise of moral relativism, the decline of personal responsibility, the repudiation of Judeo-Christian values, not least the arrogant belief that men and women could solve all the mysteries of the universe by their own intellects—were in the process of being eradicated.  On that would depend the chances of the twenty-first century becoming, by contrast, an age of hope for mankind.

                             -Paul Johnson in Modern Times (1991 revised edition)

Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

                                               -George Carlin

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second day you’re off it.

                                                             -Jackie Gleason

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet our heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they? 

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

                                 Matthew 6: 25-27  (New International Version)

[U.S. President Warren G.] Harding inherited an absentee presidency and one of the sharpest recessions in American history.  By July 1921 it was all over and the economy was booming again.  Harding had done nothing except cut government expenditure….

                Paul Johnson, in his book, Modern Times, 1983 & 1991

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

                                                           -Thomas Jefferson

Americans are fat largely because of sugar, starches, and other high-carbohydrate foods.

       - Richard K. Bernstein, M.D., in his book, Diabetes Solution

There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

                                                               -Colin Powell

When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

                                                             - Christopher Morley