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SUGAR VENDING SHARK MACHINES

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So which is safer, a shark or a sugar vending machine?

Choose the waves. The odds a person will die from a soda vending machine accident in a year are 1 in 112,000,000, while the odds that a person will die from a shark attack in a year are 1 in 251,800,000. This means that a person is more than twice as likely to be killed tipping a soda machine than to end up as food for a large toothy fish.  Admittedly these are both rare occurrences, but in the United States 2-3 people per year die as a result of being crushed by vending machines. It’s common, on the other hand, to have a year with no recorded fatal shark attacks in the US.

However, sugar-filled soda pop (and all other refined sugar products) contributed to a total of 231,404 deaths in 2007  alone.

Total prevalence of diabetes

Total: 25.8 million children and adults in the United States—8.3% of the population—have diabetes.

Diagnosed: 18.8 million people

Undiagnosed: 7.0 million people

Prediabetes: 79 million people*

New Cases: 1.9 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in people aged 20 years and older in 2010.

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OPPOSITES

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“If you want to know who you really are as a spiritual being, become the opposite of a human being.” ~ Lawrence R. Spencer

“Art is not about thinking something up; It is the opposite – getting something down.” ~ Julia Cameron

  To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, form of imitation, namely, an imitation of it’s opposite.”  ~ George C. Lichtenberg

 “Not the power to remember, but its’ very opposite, the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.” ~ Sholem Asch

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and lovers of their opposites.” ~ Marc Chagall

 “Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”  ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”  ~ Dr. Robert Anthony