"they make up 57% of the uk diet – and the risks are becoming ever more evident. here is how to recognise upfs and find healthier alternatives..."

"scientists have discovered not only that animals age more quickly when they don't have enough of the amino acid taurine in the body, but that oral taurine supplements can delay aging and increase a healthy lifespan..."

"the best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that i have not pretended to what i was not..."

"it’s the height of madness to worry about being despised by the despicable..."

"you might think that such a small change wouldn't make much of a difference, but nothing could be further from the truth. when it comes to making lasting changes in our lives, it's the little things that count. and that's what micro habits are all about..."

"a while back, i realized i needed something to help reinforce my intentions when i didn’t seem to be following through on them. for example, i intended to work on a big project, but i found myself doing some little tasks, or taking a longer break than i really wanted or needed..."

"oh, to be a bored youth again, with a carefree afternoon stretching ahead like a long, satisfying yawn. it’s not that i want to regress, it’s just … where did all the time go?..."

"in this essay, i question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it..."

"in the process of reading the book and encountering some extraordinary claims about sleep, i decided to compare the facts it presented with the scientific literature. i found that the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, sometimes egregiously so. it misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources..."

"each year, i have drawn one new learning from that particular season of life. each year, it has swelled into an existential challenge to prune the vastness, the lushness, the interleaved complexity of experience into a single blade of simple but not simplistic insight into the nature of life, glimpsed from the solitary pinhole of this one life..."