Quotes of the Day

The Law of Emotion: Every action that you take is stimulated by an emotion of some kind, either positive or negative. [2004] - Brian Tracy

America's favorite fruits are apples and bananas, with antioxidant power of about 60 units and 40 units, respectively. Mangos, the preferred fruit around the world outside of the United States, have even more antioxidant punch at 110 units. But none of these fruits are a match for berries. Strawberries weigh in at about 310 units per cup, cranberries at 330, raspberries at 350, blueberries at 380, and blackberries at a whopping 650 units. Are frozen berries as nutritious as fresh ones? Studies on cherries, raspberries, and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained even when frozen. [2015] - Michael Greger

A polygenic risk score can be inexpensively obtained from a gene chip (array) that assesses over a million common genomic variants that have been quantitatively validated to be associated with risk of a particular cancer, in terms of a score. While these were initially based on European ancestry cohorts, their accuracy and clinical utility have been markedly improved with diverse ancestry and large population data. The principal goal of a polygenic risk score is to identify high-risk individuals so that they can be followed closely. Polygenic risk scores can miss high-risk cases, which is why it's so important to have multiple layers of orthogonal (complementary, additive) data. [2025] - Eric Topol

How I Paid off My Mortgage in Just Three Years: When I bought my house, I signed up for a five-year fixed-rate mortgage at 3.04% with the help of a mortgage broker. I went with a longer amortization period (30 years) to give myself more of a safety net in case I had a financial emergency. I took advantage of all the prepayment privileges my lender offered--I paid my mortgage accelerated weekly, doubled up payments, made lump-sum payments with freelance and rental income and increased my payments yearly. I maximized my prepayment privileges every single year, until I had paid off my mortgage just over three years later. [2017] - Sean Cooper

Don't pat when you hug (it subliminally signals that you want to disconnect). [2009] - Leil Lowndes