Nether-regional warfare?

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.


Mark Twain

Handle with caution

Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are known to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.

Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845)

Rule of [Green] Thumb?

If a plant has an effect on the body it's because it's got chemicals in it. And if it doesn't, then it's not medicine, it's salad.

Matt Kirshen

Teach your children well

Head injuries in nursery rhymes: Evidence of a dangerous subtext in children's literature. More at Canadian Medication Association Journal.

Early to bed

Early to rise and early to bed
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber

This too shall pass

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Robert Maynard Hutchins