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When I was a lowly graduate student—doing my PhD thesis on the brains of boas and pythons—I had the great fortune of having dinner with two Nobel prize winning brainscientists, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. Not wanting to waste the opportunity, I asked the great men: where did the idea that we only use 10% of our brains come from, and …
Virtually everyone suffers from this extremely common form of addiction, but almost no one knows it. We’re talking about FEAR. When people worry, agonize, or suffer anxiety about various things in their lives, this is really an addiction to fear. How do you know it’s really an addiction? When the same kinds of scenarios keep cropping up over and over …
For the past half century, cholesterol has been touted as a grave health hazard, and dietary fat and cholesterol have been portrayed as being among the “deadliest” foods you could possibly eat. This may finally change, as limitations for cholesterol will likely be removed from the 2015 edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It’s about time really, as 60 years’ …
