Clearly America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence and I never had any physician except myself.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart from a clean environment to true equality for women from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking excessive alcohol consumption little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion but the first causes death.

We are biological creatures. We are born we live we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear we find courage in the face of helplessness insignificance and uncertainty.