"The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest."

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Source : "An Apple a Day Melts the Pounds Away!" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

Kathy Freston

#Yield Quotes #Weight Quotes #Fiber Quotes

“There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
“Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.”
“When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.”
“If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.”
“The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.”
“That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.”
“The nurturing flow of life, extreme intelligence, beauty, and perfect harmony are active in every one of us. Yoga was developed in ancient wisdom culture to gently reveal what we already have. Read this book.”
“All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.”

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