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To: Gottfried who wrote (323588)	1/8/2017 11:17:11 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541990

I once went through a 10+ week period of cutting out anything sweet or even moderate-high glycemic index out of my diet. When I broke this "fasting", I was amazed how many flavors I could taste that I was oblivious to before. For example, plain milk tasted very sweet by itself. Fruits felt a lot more flavorful. And most chocolates and deserts were downright intolerably sweet. In fact I came to realize that many disgusting flavors are masked by added sugar. I am not on that strict diet anymore, but I never went back to eating the way I used to either. I just didn't feel the need to, because the sugary things did not taste so good any way...and I am a person who naturally has a wicked sweet tooth.

To: Gottfried who wrote (323588)	1/8/2017 11:28:01 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 541990

Also from the same list: Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr & Michel André Maréchal Affiliations Contributions Corresponding authorsNature 516, 86–89 (04 December 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13977Received 19 February 2014 Accepted 17 October 2014 Published online 19 November 2014 Article tools Citation Reprints Rights & permissions Article metrics Trust in others’ honesty is a key component of the long-term performance of firms, industries, and even whole countries 1, 2, 3, 4. However, in recent years, numerous scandals involving fraud have undermined confidence in the financial industry 5, 6, 7. Contemporary commentators have attributed these scandals to the financial sector’s business culture 8, 9, 10, but no scientific evidence supports this claim. Here we show that employees of a large, international bank behave, on average, honestly in a control condition. However, when their professional identity as bank employees is rendered salient, a significant proportion of them become dishonest. This effect is specific to bank employees because control experiments with employees from other industries and with students show that they do not become more dishonest when their professional identity or bank-related items are rendered salient. Our results thus suggest that the prevailing business culture in the banking industry weakens and undermines the honesty norm, implying that measures to re-establish an honest culture are very important.