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As we celebrate the holidays, we can enjoy delicious food and beverages and not make ourselves ill or above our healthy body weight.  Since we are going to the expense and effort of buying and preparing food for ourselves and our loved ones anyway, we might as well support good health in the process.  Delicious is one thing, but delicious and health-supporting for ourselves and the planet is a whole other level of awesomeness.

Longevity researcher Dan Buettner is the author of “The Blue Zones Solution” His latest bestseller, “The Blue Zones Kitchen,” fuses scientific reporting, photography and recipes.

For a quick summary of the top nine food tips from studies about centenarians, see  Buettner’s article:  ‘Ensure your diet is 90 to 100% plant-based’:  9 rules from the world’s longest-living people.

The son of a Russian oligarch lost $50 million making risky trades while at university.  This is present madness writ large.  See:  A Russian oligarch’s son lost $50 million making risky trades at university:

Temur’s trades weren’t always losing ones. The London School of Economics student said he first made a profit trading stocks before sliding into losses. He then tried to rebound with riskier bets, but the positions burned the rest of his balance, according to Bloomberg.

With retail trading in a frenzy and initial public offerings surpassing the previous 1999 high this year, this vintage clip courtesy of Sven Henrich from CNBC personality and MAD Money host Jim Cramer offers a glimpse of the fraudulent wizard at work behind the market pump and dump scheme.  Jim’s unapologetic matter-of-fact description should be a wake-up call for those trying to ‘invest’ their life savings in this shitshow.

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— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) December 15, 2020