“We all know that Cleopatra was the epitome of beauty, she was famous for her beauty and never-ending youth and that is why many stories have been written about her, among the many secrets of her beauty. One secret was saffron oil. To keep her body beautiful and glowing, she used to mix saffron oil in a tub full of milk for her bath.”
“Pets that never go near areas in which a given disease is reported are routinely vaccinated against it anyway. A cat living alone on the twelfth floor in downtown Manhattan can receive up to ten vaccines at a time every year for life. A dog that never goes beyond the fire hydrant at the corner can be inoculated with up to twelve diseases each time.”
Source: Un vétérinaire en colère - Essai sur la condition animale
“Encouraged by relaxed licensing requirements, pharmaceutical companies have flooded the market with unnecessary, poorly tested, and ineffective vaccines since the late 1970s. The focus is on creating wealth and jobs rather than quality products backed by sound medical and scientific evidence. In the United States alone, there are currently eighty trademarked canine vaccines, and as many for cats. It is possible to vaccinate animals against thirty diseases and counting. In 1998, vaccination specialist Dr. Richard B. Ford warned, “Most of these vaccines are so useless as to be called ‘vaccines in search of diseases.”
Source: Un vétérinaire en colère - Essai sur la condition animale
“Just like how we choose our thoughts, how we choose to move our bodies matters.”
Source: Reclaim the Rebel: 12 Rebellious Acts to Achieve Unconditional Love for Your Body
“People with a great tendency to anxiety get protection at the expense of missed opportunities. People with deficient anxiety can take risks that bring benefits at the cost of damage and loss”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Anxiety and fear are emotions. Emotions exist only because they have given selective advantages. This makes it tempting to try to define different emotions in terms of their functions. Fear protects against present danger, anxiety against possible dangers. However, defining emotions in terms of their functions risks tacit creationism: the tendency to view bodies as if they are machines.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Therapists have long known that may depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their behavior, and they have idiosyncratic goals and ambitions. They have networks of friends and relatives.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“...natural selection produces bodies and brains with assortments of adaptations shaped over thousands of generations to enhance reproductive success (fitness) but not necessarily well-being or happiness.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health