#abe

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#battle #causes #diabetes #few #may

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#counterparts #diabetes #earn #finish #harder

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen? ↗

— Mark Hyman

#diabetes #did #either #four #happen

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#bypass #diabetes #economics #epidemic #gastric

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#avoid #best #better #claims #first

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enemies #enemy #friend #friends #friendship

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fun #humor #isabelle-lightwood #jace-wayland #humor

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#investigation #isabelle-lightwood #jace-wayland #joke #humor

The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gold #humor #percy-jackson #humor