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  1. Apr 2015
    1. Mediocre article. Attempts to cover a topic that is fraught with pseudoscience and snake oil. Points for actually linking to studies and consulting MDs. Most of the problem with this article is the title, which is very disconnected from the actual content, since nothing in the content actually discusses removing glyphosate from your body.

    2. Here are 10 detoxifying techniques which have solid science behind them

      The end of this article is a mixed bag of good and not so good recommendations. Some of the things below have or are being studied for potentially beneficial uses, others (like colonic cleanses) have been abandoned by the medical community for decades.

    3. “How do we engage in this lifelong process of detoxification? As a foundation, this involves eating healthy food. This means organic, GMO-free food,” he said in an email interview. “Herbs such as cilantro help us to eliminate metals such as lead and mercury,” he said. “Herbs like turmeric and garlic help to lower the levels of inflammation that are often the underlying causes [of chronic diseases.]”

      It's hard for me to take seriously an MD who acknowledges "detoxification" is a thing. Here's a recent Guardian article that talks about the nonsense rhetoric of "toxins" and "detoxification": http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance

  2. Mar 2015
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  4. Oct 2013
    1. What a man wants to be is better than what a man wants to seem, for in aiming at that he is aiming more at reality. Hence men say that justice is of small value, since it is more desirable to seem just than to be just, whereas with health it is not so. That is better than other things which is more useful than they are for a number of different purposes; for example, that which promotes life, good life, pleasure, and noble conduct. For this reason wealth and health are commonly thought to be of the highest value, as possessing all these advantages.

      I think that we still seek health and wealth above all else.

  5. Sep 2013
    1. The excellence of the body is health; that is, a condition which allows us, while keeping free from disease, to have the use of our bodies; for many people are "healthy" as we are told Herodicus was; and these no one can congratulate on their "health," for they have to abstain from everything or nearly everything that men do.-- Beauty varies with the time of life.

      Interesting, there is no mention of women in this definition of beauty.