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Read more: Junk Food In Schools Doesn’t Correlate To Fat
Junk Food In Schools Doesn’t Correlate To Fat
8 comments on Junk Food In Schools Doesn’t Correlate To FatRemember how banning junk food in schools was supposed to make fat kids thin? Guess what? No, it doesn’t. At least not according to “Competitive Food Sales in Schools and Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal Study” in Sociology of Education (January 2012). But of course we should’ve thought it would, right? It’s not like “Snack food intake does not predict weight change among children and adolescents” was published in International Journal…
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Read more: Not News
Not News
The website Fark makes fun of news stories that are not, actually, news. Example: Students Discover Desks Have More Germs Than Toilets Why isn’t it news? Well, it’s a common story that pops up once a year or two, and relies on people not thinking about which is more likely to get janitorial attention. Today my Google Health section looked a bit like Fark. First: Paula Deen…
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Read more: Five Things Makes a Post
Five Things Makes a Post
New job! I have a new job. The place I was temping hired me in late December. I’m not doing exactly the same job, which is both “new and scary” and “cool and interesting”. It’s also been interesting to note that the things I was looking forward to ending with the contract (the commute, say) are now things I’m stuck with, and the things I was…
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Read more: Waiting
Waiting
I am waiting outside a medical supply store that’s closed for lunch. Why? To pick up some catheter supplies for my dad. Yes, my life is so glamorous. :/
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Read more: Ripping off the Yay! Scale
Ripping off the Yay! Scale
For years, Marilyn Wann has created and sold Yay! scales, used them in anti-diet activism, and written about them online and in her book FAT!SO? : Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size. Others have mentioned Yay! Scales in books as well, including Health At Every Size. Now Kellogg’s is using a very similar scale to sell their “Special K Challenge”. According to The New…
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Read more: Happy Solstice
Happy Solstice
I’m in North America – Seattle, specifically. We currently get 8 hours of sun a day, and will for the next few weeks — but slowly we’ll start getting more. This is The Christians & The Pagans, by Dar Williams.
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Read more: Weight Cycling Industry
Weight Cycling Industry
From Deb Burgard comes this amazing post on weight cycling: Why do we call it the “weight loss industry” when what we really get for our time, sacrifice, and money is weight cycling? 19 times out of 20, what we are really purchasing is the experience of weight loss and regain. Imagine if we called it the “weight cycling industry,” and “weight cycling programs.” Would you participate in…
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Read more: Asthma Not-Fun
Asthma Not-Fun
I would like to realize I’m wheezing before someone stops me at work and asks, with a look of deep concern, “Are you alright?” Really. It’s bad enough to have someone ask me, with a look of deep concern, “Are you alright?” while I’m setting up mics and speakers for a concert. Or walking around a con. Or walking at a park. It’s worse at work. Maybe…
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