* What it means to Dare Greatly
* My adventure in the arena
* Scarcity: looking inside our culture of “never enough”
* Debunking the vulnerability myths
* Understanding and combating shame
* The vulnerability armory
* Mind Tue gap: cultivating change and closing the disengagement divide
* Disruptive engagement: daring to dehumanize education and work
* wholehearted parenting: daring to be adults we want our children to be
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* A free society cannot exist without a venue and an environment for honest research and discourse.
* Academia has the power to modify science to its liking and discredit scientific information not to their liking.
* Truth is a stubborn thing. It just won’t go away. Tom Riner.
* George Macilwain: grease, fat, and alcohol are the chief causes of cancer.
* Animal protein, even more than saturated fat and dietary cholesterol, raises blood cholesterol levels.
* Published data show that animal protein promotes the growth of tumors.
* Data show that a diet based on animal-based foods increases a woman’s production of reproductive hormones over her lifetime, which may lead to breast cancer.
* Whole-food-plant-based diet is best for preventing, and possibly treating cancer.
* It is now commonly accepted that what you eat can determine your risk of multiple cancers.
* Nutrition is the biological expression of food that promotes health. Malnutrition is its opposite.
* As taxpayers, we pay for subsidies to produce the food that is killing us, then we pay for expensive pills and procedures when we get sick.
* Low-protein diet enhance the burning off of calories, thus leaving fewer calories for body weight gain and perhaps also fewer for tumor growth as well.
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* Our chronic diseases are largely the result of infinitely complex assaults in our body resulting from eating bad food.
* No single chemical intervention will ever equal the power of consuming the healthiest food.
* The National Cancer Institute: what is clear is that most of our current treatments will produce some measure of adversity.
* the author’s conclusion: When it comes to health, government is not for the people; it is for the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of Tue people.
* Why doesn’t the the medical system take nutrition seriously? Four words: money, ego, power, control.
* The health damage that results from doctors’ ignorance of nutrition is astounding.
* Whole-food-plant-based diet has the potential not only to prevent diseases that are plaguing patients, but also the potential to treat them.
*Medical education and drug companies are in bed together, and have been for quite some time. The whole system is paid for by the drug industry, from education to research.
* A scientist speaking out about the possible side effects of antidepressant lost a job opportunity at the University of Toronto.
* Journal of American Medical Association study: one in five new drugs will either get a black box warning, indicating a previously unknown serious adverse reaction that may result in death or serious injury or will be withdrawn from the market within 25 years. 20 percent of all new drugs have serious unknown side effects. More than 100,000 Americans die every year from correctly taking their properly prescribed medication. This is one of the leading cause of death in America.
* something as simple as food could be more powerful than all the knowledge of pills and high-tech procedure.
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* Food business interests need to claim that their product is good for you, or, at least that it’s not bad for you. In this process, the science of nutrition becomes the business of marketing.
* The dairy industry’s goals: 1. Market to young children and their mothers; 2. Use schools as a channel to young customers; 3. Conduct and publicize research favorable to the industry.
* Casein, the main protein in dairy foods, has been shown to promote cancer and increase blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis plaque.
* Some industries use science to increase demand for its product to make more money.
* Industry loves to tinker. Securing patents based on details lead to marketing claims and, ultimately, to greater revenues.
* We all have heard of oranges as sources of vitamin C. One cup of peppers, strawberries, broccoli, or peas all have more. One papaya has as much as four times more vitamin C than one orange.
* The healthiest section of any store is the place where they sell while fruits and vegetables-the produce section, not the section with supplements and special preparations of seemingly magic ingredients.
* More people die because of the way they eat thAn from tobacco use, accidents, or any other lifestyle or environmental factors.
* Diets high in animal-based protein will create higher blood cholesterol levels and higher risk of atherosclerosis, cancer, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and kidney stones to name a few chronic diseases.
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* When scientific evidence first emerged to show that cigarettes were dangerous, hordes of health professionals vigorously defended smoking.
* Cancer incites a far greater fear than heart disease.
* Prevention of cancer with low-cost, low-frofit plant foods is not welcomed by the food and pharmaco-medical industries.
* In the world of nutrition and health scientists are not free to pursue their research wherever it leads.
* Even if you change the level of saturated fat in the meat, all of the other nutrients are still present and may still have harmful effects on the health.
* Carroll’s graph: the closer a population gets to consuming a plant-based diet, the lower the risk of breast cancer.
* Women who tinker with fat, while maintaining a near-carnivorous diet, do not have a lower breast cancer risk.
* The US preventive service task force… concludes that the evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against the use of supplements of A, C, or E; multivitamins with folic acid; or antioxidant combinations for the prevention of cancer or cardiovascular disease.