Quotes of the Day

Avoid or greatly limit highly sweet fruits like dates, peaches, pineapples, dried fruit, blueberries, oranges, grapes and bananas until you don't have tooth decay anymore. Examples of less sweet fruits are: sour berries such as raspberries, as well as kiwi, and green apples. If you have bad cavities or want to immediately stop the rapid process of tooth decay, avoid all sweets and fruits and completely. [2011] - Ramiel Nagel

Take courses, volunteer, join a committee, go to exhibitions, walk someone's dog, learn to cook, take tango lessons, visit art galleries, go to pet shows, take up roller-skating, attend weddings and christenings, funerals, and other events. Get a fun part-time job, give dinner parties, start a book club, attend night school, ride a horse, take sewing lessons, study Chinese, learn spot welding. Choose a class where you participate rather than sit back and listen to a lecturer--something like cooking, wine tasting, or learning a foreign language. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

60 percent of personality characteristics, such as courage, extroversion, musical interest, sensitivity, athletic ability, and so on, are inborn and innate. [2004] - Brian Tracy

Breathe into the body, and feel your abdomen expanding and contracting slightly with each inhalation and exhalation. If you find it easy to visualize, close your eyes and see yourself surrounded by light or immersed in a luminous substance -- a sea of consciousness. Then breathe in that light. Feel that luminous substance filling up your body and making it luminous also. Then gradually focus more on the feeling. You are now in your body. Don't get attached to any visual image. [1999] - Eckhart Tolle

Soy products of all kinds (e.g., tofu, flour or sauce) contain a substance that blocks absorption of nutrients, besides having a high fat content. A great deal of research has proven the toxicity of soy, even when grown organically. The hype claiming soy's usefulness in preventing breast cancer has turned out to be unsubstantiated and the opposite of truth: soy is likely to stimulate malignancy. [2013] - Charlotte Gerson