My skepticism on the nutritional value of Chinese soups might best be summarized as a belief in a Law of Conservation of Nutrition - a soup's nutritional content cannot exceed the sum nutritional content of its ingredients.
Eating a chicken/onion/carrot will always be just as nutritious as boiling it for 3 hours. Not sure if I plan to eat some of the weird stuff my mom puts in there though... O.o #StillLovesHisMommysSoups
An oldie but a goodie, gives me shivers every time I read it.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
