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The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: America Be Happy Children Content Cultural Emotional Expectation Gets Happy Less More More People Our People Really Seem Think Time Toxic Way Well-Being I Think

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Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: About Because Beings Decisions Good Health Human Human Beings Make Millennia Most Our Survived Time Us

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Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

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Topics: American Bad Bad Ones Bone Diets Enough Even Health Men More Most Provide Than

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The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Body Bottom Bottom Line Common Common Sense Complex Hazardous Health Human Human Body Line Sense Sometimes Subtle Us Your

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For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Become Both Carving Close Exercise Impossible Many Meditation Modern Modern World Out Seated Time Traditional World

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As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Fascinated Harvard Laboratory Psychologist Undergraduate Visits 1960S

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Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Activities Am Amazed Ancient Been Behaviors Changed Day Directly Doing Downtown Each Each Day Filled Homo How Human Lives Long Most Other People Physical Principally Quickly Roughly Talking Things Through Travel Two Years I Am

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If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Beings Calculations Constantly Could Die Easiest Email First Human Human Beings Mile Only Physical Quickly Read Run Screen Subconscious Tapping Tasks Urge Way Would You

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Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Almost Almost Nothing Any Anyone Day Find Knows Likely Me Most Nothing Picking Rather Really Time Who Will Would You

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Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Diets Even Exercise Fail Least Long Long Term People Some Some People Term Vigorous Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 8th, 1942

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