Quotes of the Day

While intermittent fasting and eating "windows" have become popular and even trendy in recent years, I've grown skeptical of their effectiveness. And frequent longer-term fasting has enough negatives attached to it that I'm reluctant to use it in all but the most metabolically sick patients. The jury is still out on the utility of infrequent (e.g. yearly) prolonged fasts. Overall, I've come to believe that fasting-based interventions must be utilized carefully and with precision. [2023] - Peter Attia

Avoid small-potato insurance policies such as extended-warranty and repair plans, home-warranty plans (unless you're required by provincial regulations), dental insurance, credit life and credit disability policies, insuring packages in the mail, cellphone insurance, contact-lens insurance and little-stuff riders (small insurance policies that are sold as add-ons to bigger insurance policies such as auto and disability insurance). [2019] - Eric Tyson

H2As like cimetidine (Tagamet),ranitidine (Zantac), and famotidine (Pepcid) have fewer side effects and work better than PPIs for nighttime reflux. H2As are the drugs of choice for people who need to take antireflux medicine on an as-deeded basis. [2014] - Jamie Koufman

According to "privacy Guidelines For Landlords and Tenants" released by the Office of the Information Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, landlords should not require that tenants provide their Social Insurance Number on either tenancy application forms or rental agreements. A landlord should not demand a tenant's banking / credit card information as a condition of renting a property. A landlord may ask to examine a person's driver's licence in order to verify the person's identity. However, the landlord must not write down or photocopy this personal information. A potential landlord cannot ask you to pay a fee to simply apply to rent a place. [2015] - Kris Anderson

Try to present the offer in person or have your realtor present the offer in person if at all possible. Statistically, people who negotiate in person are more likely to come to a deal than people who negotiate over email or over the phone. [2015] - Gary Wong