We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

The bottom line is that you will not lose fat effectively with exercise-driven weight-loss efforts unless your eating habits moderate insulin production.

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.

Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

I don't eat a single bite of food that I don't absolutely love.

Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.

Adjust your mentality to make veggies a centrepiece of your meals and snacks. Get comfortable with occasionally consuming larger quantities than typical Western diet traditions call for.

Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.

Our ancestors went for days without anything to eat, and carbohydrates were extremely scarce for two million years. The truth is, fat is the preferred fuel for human metabolism.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.