Quotes of the Day

If you decided to pick up Bowers' The Expert's Guide to Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins, a 600-pager, or the hundreds of other books published on the subject, with a great deal of time and effort you might discover a way to profit from 1905 music box tokens. [2008] - Shayne McGuire

Most banks have a list of acceptable appraisers. When appraisers do appraisals for a bank, they tend to protect their trusted position with the bank. When they do appraisals for vendors, they tend towards the higher end of the range. [2009] - Don R. Campbell

Other than choosing the wrong gold dealer, the biggest mistake you can make is to fall into the urgency trap. [2008] - Shayne McGuire

Although the sleep information obtained from consumer wearable devices is appealing, these trackers are not yet ready for use in Sleep Therapy. They tend to misclassify wakefulness during the night, and they're untested in people with insomnia. [2021] - Judith R. Davidson

As you age, your risk of developing and dying from cancer grows every year--until you hit eighty-five or ninety, when, interestingly, your cancer risk begins to drop. In deed, if you don't get cancer by a certain age, you may never get it. What accounts for this relative resistance to cancer among centenarians? It may have to do with a cancer-promoting growth hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). The release of IGF-1 appears to be triggered by the consumption of animal protein. Vegetarians who include eggs and dairy in their diets don't seem to achieve a significant reduction in IGF-1. Only men and women who limit their intake of all animal proteins appear able to significantly drop their levels of the cancer-promoting hormone and raise their levels of the protective binding proteins. [2015] - Michael Greger