Quotes

Cool Quotes Vol. 3


"The only time to eat DIET FOOD is while you're waiting for the STEAK to cook."

~ Julia Child

"Be open to learning new lessons even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday."

~ Ellen Degeneres

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."

~ Reba Mcentire

"Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both."

~ David Brown

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."

~ Gil Stern

"A great thing about family life is that it introduces you to people you would otherwise never meet."

~ Christopher Hitchens

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

~ Margaret Mead

"The reason that grandparents and children get along so well is really quite simple: They have a common enemy."

~ Sam Levenson

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."

~ Anthony Powell


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Alcohol

Alcohol is one of the greatest public health threats in North America. Alcohol is a major factor in the death toll on our highways and we're seeing an unprecedented growth in harm related to alcohol abuse. Alcohol does not get a lot of attention in regards to prevention, and the governments and health professionals are not doing enough to curb its deadly potential. >>> Find out more...



Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths every year
result from harmful use of alcohol,
this represent 5.9 % of all deaths.
The harmful use of alcohol is
a causal factor in more than
200 disease and injury conditions.

Binge Drinking

A “binge” is a pattern of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 gram percent or above. For the typical adult, this pattern corresponds to consuming 5 or more drinks (male), or 4 or more drinks (female), in about 2 hours. Binge drinking is clearly dangerous for the drinker and for society. For some individuals (e.g., older people or people taking other drugs or certain medications), the number of drinks needed to reach a binge­level BAC is lower than for the "typical adult".