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" «Es mucho más probable algo que he observado numerosas veces, incluso con los miembros de una familia», dijo. «Ellos decidieron que comer mucha comida para llevar y comida rápida no era comer bien. Leyeron estas cosas sobre lo libre de gluten, y entonces están comprando vegetales, cocinando bien y comiendo mucho mejor. Culpar al gluten es fácil, pero se podrían señalar cientos de cosas que están haciendo mejor». Dicho de la manera más sencilla: en algunos casos, eliminar el gluten es sólo el pretexto para cocinar en casa y abandonar la comida chatarra. Nadie quiere abandonar las comidas que le gustan. Pero cuando la pérdida de peso en sí misma no es suficiente motivación, pensar que tus comidas favoritas causan autismo, cerebro nebuloso y Alzheimer, puede ser el impulso que necesitas "
― Alan Levinovitz , The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
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" John Fire Lame Deer, a Lakota medicine man, wrote gut-wrenchingly about what the bison meant for his people, and what happened when they were destroyed: The buffalo gave us everything we needed. Without it we were nothing. Our tipis were made of his skin. His hide was our bed, our blanket, our winter coat. It was our drum, throbbing through the night, alive, holy. Out of his skin we made our water bags. His flesh strengthened us, became flesh of our flesh. Not the smallest part of it was wasted. His stomach, a red-hot stone dropped in to it, became our soup kettle. His horns were our spoons, the bones our knives, our women’s awls and needles. Out of his sinews we made our bowstrings and thread. His ribs were fashioned into sleds for our children, his hoofs became rattles. His mighty skull, with the pipe leaning against it, was our sacred altar. The name of the greatest of all Sioux was Tatanka Iyotake—Sitting Bull. When you killed off the buffalo you also killed the Indian—the real, natural, “wild” Indian. "
― Alan Levinovitz , Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science
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" Sometimes my patients will say, ‘Is it because when I was forty-five, I did X?,’” Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, told me. “In those moments, people have intense fear and regret, and when you say it’s not that, it removes something they’re really worried about. "
― Alan Levinovitz , Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science