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Read more: Mixed Links
Mixed Links
1 comment on Mixed LinksA nice piece on beating stress & angst Contraceptive pills may reduce or prevent muscle growth. From an article on being fat and fit: As long as people see physical activity primarily as a way of losing weight, they are unlikely to keep it up, either because it doesn’t achieve that objective quickly or because they think they have to lose weight before they can take up…
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Read more: Food for Thought
Food for Thought
Rachel’s post on how “food restriction isn’t torture because Americans diet all the time” reminded me of this… A friend requested that I “hold her hand” at a Diabetes Education class this week. I hadn’t realized she’d meant it literally.* I wasn’t really surprised by a lot of it, including when the nutritionist emphasized that carbohydrates are a useful and necessary part of good nutrition and blood…
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Read more: Sweetener Wars
Sweetener Wars
In the news: the “Sweetener Wars” continue as the blue, pink, and yellow packets are being joined with green Stevia packets. Also there’s more “combination” sweeteners coming out. What I find interesting is the mix of preferences. Those who avoid sugar for medical reasons. Those who find avoiding aspartame, HFCS, sugar, or sucralose reduces headaches or other problems. Those who prefer the taste of one sweetenter or another.…
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Read more: More: How Very Obese People Are Almost Completely Sedentary…
More: How Very Obese People Are Almost Completely Sedentary…
Or rather, on how the “almost completely sedentary” in “Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary” is defined. The full text of the study isn’t freely available, but the abstract is linked in here. The results include: On average, subjects took 3,763 ± 2,223 steps. That implies a range between 1,430 and 5,986 steps a day. That’s a pretty wide range of data, and makes me…
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Read more: Pollen Sucks
Pollen Sucks
Seriously. Nose running, eyes itching, I take extra antihistimines – and then nibble on chocolate-covered coffee beans* to compensate for the resulting drowsiness.** I’m coughing up the occasional bit of phlegm, too, and my lungs feel fullish. The one good thing is that even though I feel sick, I’m probably not actually contagious. How’s hayfever season going for y’all? *Use with caution. **Yes, I…
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Read more: Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary?
Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary?
For all the freaking out in the media about the obesity crisis, there’s not much research on folks who are very fat. So a study on folks with an average BMI of 53 shows some promise…right? Sorry. The headline: “Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary“. I’m not sure how many people are going to read beyond that, but if they do, here’s what they’ll find: Only 10 participants.…
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Read more: What I’m Reading…
What I’m Reading…
An article on public policy vs academic research tackles salt, but I wonder if the same thing could not be said about dieting. If you were an academic researcher, you’d have to persuade your institutional review board that you had considered the risks and obtained informed consent from the participants. […] But if you are the mayor of New York, no such constraints apply. You can simply…
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Read more: Vanilla
Vanilla
I’m not sexy but I really want to be I hear that’s normal for my demographic I don’t look good in skirts and even wedges hurt my feet […] A nicely balanced budget’s not so thrilling Courtesy’s outdated and sobriety is lame Reliability is not appealing But I don’t know any other way to be I love people and I want them to love me My…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
1) Another review of the book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight. “Bacon’s new book on HAES combines her medical background with social analysis and practical tools for learning to eat intuitively and enjoy being active.” 2) Getting enough sleep to wake up without the alarm. 3) Lack of knee pain! 4) iPod makes the treadmill less boring, and the greenery outside…
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