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Read more: Operation de-Dust Mite
Operation de-Dust Mite
10 comments on Operation de-Dust MiteIn October I noticed I was having more anxiety about the whole “going to the doctor” thing. I ended up calling the asthma specialist I’d been referred to at least six months previously and going in on Monday. This was stressful in many ways. I’m freak-folks-the-hell-out fat. I’ve got the whole mental “You mean it’s asthma, not just that I’m fat and out of shape?” thing going. There’s…
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Read more: Breakfast Pricing
Breakfast Pricing
Out for breakfast one day I noticed that both the plate of 3 pancakes and the dish of cut fruit are “one side”. Different in quantity, nutrients and fiber. Different, too, in shelf-stability of the ingredients and labor (mixing and cooking pancakes vs chopping fruit). But the same price. Says something about our food system, perhaps?
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Read more: Fitness Quote Of The Day
Fitness Quote Of The Day
The latest study adds to mounting evidence that a sedentary lifestyle may trump obesity as a corrosive influence on health. In recent years, researchers have found that exercise, even when not accompanied by weight loss, powerfully affects a range of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes. Many clinicians and researchers complain that this message — that while it’s ideal to be lean, it’s possible…
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Read more: X Things Make A Post
X Things Make A Post
Yes, I voted. (Yes, hopefully the USians will stop talking about elections soon!) I spent the weekend at a sci-fi con. I was not the only too-big-for-size-24 in the hotel, which is nice. Serious body variation FTW :) Michelle at The Fat Nutritionist wrote about “food addiction”. (The quotes probably give away my opinion.) ThisIsThinPrivilege.tumblr.com/ is an interesting ongoing conversation about degrees of size privilege A pharmacist’s flu…
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Read more: Dance
Dance
I’d like to write something incredible and inspiring but right now I’m dancing to this song. Momma said “you’d better be a good girl” Teacher said hey “hey, turn that music down” And everyone said “the girl’s a trouble maker” And all she would ever say was “ain’t life beautiful” Want to dance?
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Read more: Reducing Heart Attacks
Reducing Heart Attacks
A Minnesota county reduced heart attacks by 33%. Was it due to a county weight loss campaign? A “Let’s Move” push? A trans-fat ban? Nope. The research, carried out by scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found a 33 percent drop in heart attack rates in one Minnesota county after public smoking bans were enacted. [The study] examined medical data in Olmsted County,…
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
From Paul Campos discusses the failure of a “sophisticated and expensive attempt” to validate the hypothesis that “significant long-term weight loss improves health outcomes”: It will probably come as a surprise to most readers to learn that this hypothesis remains almost completely unconfirmed by the medical literature – in part because we simply don’t know how to produce significant long-term weight loss in a statistically significant group…
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
Free speech means that yes, you get to say anything you want (with some legal limits regarding libel and slander laws, advocating harm of another person or threatening someone with death or bodily harm, blackmail, all that), but free speech also means that other people get to say what they want, too, whether you like it or not. Free speech does not mean the freedom to not…
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Read more: QOTD: People Really Do Know How To Eat
QOTD: People Really Do Know How To Eat
People really do know how to eat, otherwise we never would have survived as a species. We have internal regulation mechanisms to tell us when we are hungry and full, and to seek out a variety of foods for good nutrition. — Michelle, at her blog The Fat Nutritionist
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Read more: Medical Things
Medical Things
Those following along on twitter know that I went to the Urgent Care near work to deal with a UTI. This, of course, brought up the “Seeing the doctor issues”. Fortunately the actual appointment went well, with no weight fight. Then it was off to the pharmacy. The nice part was that the UTI pain relief pills are over the counter now, so I could get them…
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