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Are We Frucked?
“When we eat glucose (say, pasta), we satisfy our hunger enzyme, ghrelin. At the same time, we recruit insulin, which then activates our satiety enzyme, leptin. Consumption of glucose thus initiates a negative…
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Candy Is Dandy, But Is Liquor Quicker?
“Sugar-holics may be spared blood and electrolytic disorders and an enlarged heart. And they are not malnourished, at least as that term is generally defined. But they suffer from all the other maladies,…
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Exercise Doesn’t (Does) Help You Lose Weight
“The rubbery rubric: If you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. The remorseless reality: Few can shed embonpoint permanently by doing either.”—Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE…
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A Tale of Two Cares: Over & Under
“The government is not making a conscious effort to counterbalance my overcare with my wife’s undercare. But that’s no comfort to me.”—Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/6/2014—I got…
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Why Not Tell “Afib”?
“Atrial fibrillation, or Afib, is a disturbance of the electrical system of the heart that causes its upper chambers to beat shallowly and chaotically, sometimes more than 400 times per minute.”—Sanford Rose Dolors…
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Luigi’s Lucubrations
“To Albertini, The Great War was not caused by imperialism, militarism, nationalism, the jingoist press, or entangling alliances, the five suspects usually rounded up by historians of lesser industry. The war was caused…
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Bismarck’s Boners
“The Iron Chancellor, who fathered the German state in the 19th century, made few mistakes. But two were crucial, setting the stage for World War I. He detached Alsace and Lorraine from France…
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Don’t Blame You; Don’t Blame Me: Blame the Fellow Behind the Tree!
“In the 1970s, the pendulum began shifting again until, today, it is probably about dead center: that is, all the major actors were to some degree culpable, say a substantial number of historians.…
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Whew! It Was My Dentate Gyrus, Not My Entorhinal Cortex
“Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is, as most know, age-linked. It is believed that older folk suffer a gradual loss in the power of the brain’s transmission system, possibly because of white matter decay. This loss…