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“diets that are high in sugar and processed foods are bad for our microbes, and by extension for our health, and diets that are high in vegetables and fruits are good for both.”
― Tim Spector, The Diet Myth: Why the Secret to Health and Weight Loss is Already in Your Gut

“A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes.”
― Tim Spector, The Diet Myth: Why the Secret to Health and Weight Loss is Already in Your Gut

“prism”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

“I hope this book will end the practice of referring to Donald’s “strategies” or “agendas,” as if he operates according to any organizing principles. He doesn’t. Donald’s ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself. Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction my grandfather started that he is strong, smart, and otherwise extraordinary, because facing the truth—that he is none of those things—is too terrifying for him to contemplate.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man