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    john boy

    john boy DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster

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    "Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once"

    William Shakespeare
     
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    Very true JB- BUT!

    :eek: Did some one once say? "Better to be a Live Coward, than a Dead Hero"

    Sometimes I sits and Wonders, Sometimes I just Sits :wink:
    Now! I just Wonder :(


    Jack P. :o
     
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    Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
    John Lennon
     
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    as the saying goes..."He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day":wink:

    An old friend of mine from my youth,. upset some people and I gave him that advice....sadly about two years later as a Doorman he was stabbed and fatally wounded.
     
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    John Lennon!

    :( Sorry to here about your friend JB, maybe another Lyrical Quote, from a Great man, should be, and listened to by others; " LET IT BE!"


    Jack P.:(
     
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    Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
    - John Steinbeck
     
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    'Do you spell it with a ''V'' or a ''W''?' inquired the judge.
    'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord,' replied Sam
    [Weller].

    -Charles Dickens 1812-70: Pickwick Papers (1837)
     
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    "The whiter the bread the sooner your're dead"
    John Robbins in his book, 'Healthy at 100'.

    If interested, this is what he has to say about it, comparing white flour to wheat flour.
    John Robbins says in his reference "Healthy At 100":
    Eat an average of seven servings of vegetables a
    day, seven servings of whole grains a day, two
    servings of soy products a day, and fish two or
    three times a week. Eat almost no meat or dairy
    products. Eat very little sugar or added fats.

    WHITE FLOUR
    He also discusses the danger of consuming white
    bread, in a section entitled:

    "THE WHITER THE BREAD, THE SOONER YOU'RE DEAD"

    in which he dislays a table showing the percentage
    of nutrients lost when whole wheat flour is refined
    into white flour:

    Protein: 25 percent lost
    Fiber: 95 percent lost
    Calcium: 56 percent lost
    Copper: 62 percent lost
    Iron: 84 percent lost
    Manganese: 82 percent lost
    Phosphorus: 69 percent lost
    Potassium: 74 percent lost
    Selenium: 52 percent lost
    Zinc: 76 percent lost
    Vitamin B1: 73 percent lost
    Vitamin B2: 81 percent lost
    Vitamin B3: 80 percent lost
    Vitamin B5: 56 percent lost
    Vitamin B6: 87 percent lost
    Folate: 59 percent lost
    Vitamin E: 95 percent lost

    He further states:
    Whole grains clearly protect against cancer.
    But whole grains make up less than 1 percent
    of the average American diet.

    Note: I often buy natural "Ezekiel Bread"
    such as from Trader Joe's, Sprouts,
    and other quality health stores.

    SUGAR TIME
    Food manufacturers put such massive amounts
    of refined sugars in foods for a simple
    reason: to stimulate appetite. People whose
    appetites are stimulated eat more food. This
    is good for sales, but it is also why excess
    sugar consumption is so strongly linked to
    obesity. People eating highly refined and
    processed foods typically consume 25 percent
    more calories than those on a more natural
    diet.

    Thanks to the roughly $4 billion a year in
    federal subsidies handed to corn growers in
    the US, high-fructose corn syrup has become
    so cheap that it can now be found in almost
    every processed food, even ones like soups
    and salad dressings that didn't used to be
    sweetened. Some studies indicate that corn
    syrup is even worse than cane sugar. A
    single 12-ounce can of soda pop has about
    13 teaspoons of sugar in the form of high-
    fructose corn syrup. Today, the average
    American drinks about 55 gallons of soda
    pop a year. Ten to 15 percent of all calories
    consumed by American teenage girls come from
    soft drinks. Many US schools today actually
    have more soft drink machines than water
    fountains.

    The result isn't pretty. We've got a lot of
    overfed and overweight people who are always
    hungry and are actually undernourished.
    Despite the excessive number of calories
    they are eating, their cells are not getting
    the nutrients they need.

    So, essentially, if you want to become
    malnourished, obese, and toothless, then
    foods high in refined sugar and corn syrup
    are your ticket.

    Reference:
    John Robbins (2006), "Healthy At 100: The
    Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's
    Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples",
    Random House, ISBN 1-4000-6521-6.
     
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    Werther had a love for Charlotte
    Such as words could never utter;
    Would you know how first he met her?
    She was cutting bread and butter.

    - William Makepeace Thackeray: 'Sorrows of Werther' (1855)
     
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    "Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."
    Sherrod Brown on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 in a speech in the Senate
     
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