Quotes of the Day

Spending the money to buy organic food makes the most sense when buying the following foods: 1) Meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy: By going organic, you avoid supplemental hormones and antibiotics. You also greatly reduce the risk of exposure to the mad cow disease, and you minimize your exposure to other potential toxins in nonorganic feed. 2) Produce: Apples, bell peppers, celery, cherries, garlic, hot peppers, imported grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, potatoes, red raspberries, spinach, and strawberries have historically been found to carry the greatest amount of pesticides, even after washing. [2013] - Nadine Artemis

It will often take three or four visits just to reach the point where the relationship is strong enough that you can talk business seriously. [2004] - Brian Tracy

Up to 80% of office workers suffer from something called continuous partial attention. We'll scan our email, write something down, check Twitter, and do it all over again, never really focusing on any specific task. In this state of perpetual distraction, breathing becomes shallow and erratic. Sometimes we won't breathe at all for a half minute or longer. [2020] - James Nestor

With a DXA scan there is minimal X-radiation exposure compared to X-ray or CT scans - less than one-tenth the dose of a standard chest X-ray, and less than a day's exposure to natural radiation. The result is shown as a bone density T-score: +1.0 to -1.0 indicates normal bone density; -1 to -2.5 indicates low bone density (or osteopenia); -2.5 or more indicates osteoporosis [2019] - Diana Moran

Currency traders often use 89-period and 144-period exponential moving averages simultaneously for their long-term charts, considering a crossover of the two averages an important signal. [2010] - Jay Norris