I examined what I was doing differently and realized that I was eating predominantly refined carbohydrates, which had caused rapid weight gain despite my youth and daily practices of vigorous swimming and climbing the steep hills of Ithaca, NY. Today, various medical doctors and scientists emphasize the importance of nutrition for preventing and treating chronic disease and underscore the need to avoid refined carbohydrates and seed oils. Traditional male camaraderie over a drink or a cigar has been ridiculed and vilified, even though there is a significant difference between smoking cigarettes and inhaling the smoke, on the one hand, and the occasional enjoyment of pipes or cigars, without smoke inhalation, on the other.
Author: Nora Dimitrova Clinton
Published at: 2026-01-18 23:30:55
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