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Read more: Health Assessments
Health Assessments
25 comments on Health AssessmentsMcfluffy’s post in the LJ fatshionista community about health assessments, and the resulting comment thread, got me thinking. She had one very negative assessement from the website of her health insurance company; she had a very positive assessment from the “general health assessement” from another site.
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Read more: Chronic Stress Tied to Obesity? Hey, Let’s Make Them Thin…
Chronic Stress Tied to Obesity? Hey, Let’s Make Them Thin…
So I was reading about a study that says kids of families with chronic stress were maybe a little more likely to be fat and wondering what else there is about chronic stress and being fat. I run into: Researchers found a molecule the body releases when stressed called NPY (neuropeptide Y). NPY appears to unlock certain receptors in fat cells, causing them to grow in both size…
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Read more: Optimism
Optimism
It’s getting tougher these days to think of the glass as half full rather than half empty, but if you’re going to survive this economic crisis – literally – you might as well try. – Time Optimism. This can be hard when 2 people you know lost their job in the last week and a third got a layoff notice. Or when everyone’s ready to throw their…
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Read more: Açaí hits the mainstream…
Açaí hits the mainstream…
In this case, The New York Times. Some highlights: Both Oprah Winfrey and Rachel Ray have posted disclaimers on their websites that they do not endorse any açaí product. No studies have shown specific health benefits to eating açaí berries or products. No studies have shown açaí helps in weight loss. The Better Business Bureau has warned consumers “to be wary of online ads relying on celebrity endorsements of…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
My knee doesn’t really hate me anymore. It’s just occasionally crotchety. New shirt from Ulla Popken arrived and fits nicely. Sunny days lasting til 7pm seems to be counteracting my SAD a bit. Taking time to stretch. A weekend with nothing scheduled and nowhere I had to be. :)
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Read more: Walking review: Burke Museum
Walking review: Burke Museum
Since the knee has been bothering me lately, I’ve been making more of an effort to go for walks. The University of Washington’s Burke Museum, which focuses on natural history and culture, has a special exhibit on … Coffee. In Seattle. Of course. Cynicism aside, it was an interesting overview of the history of how coffee spread outside of Ethiopia with a focus on the present…
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Read more: Sleep Quote
Sleep Quote
“It’s a bell-shaped curve,” she said, with just 2.5 percent of the population needing significantly less sleep than average. “The problem,” she went on, “is that 95 percent of us think we’re in that 2.5 percent.”
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Read more: How Goes Daylight Savings Time?
How Goes Daylight Savings Time?
Most of the US switched our clocks forward an hour over the weekend. At the moment, I’m mostly enjoying that it’s not getting light before 7am and the sun doesn’t set until about 7pm. (Remember, I’m up at latitude 47 – we get almost 16 hours of sunlight in late June, and less than 9 in late December.) Usually I hate the switch back to standard time…
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Read more: Myth: Fat Always = Overeating
Myth: Fat Always = Overeating
[This was originally some rambling from the Susie Orbach post that I felt wasn’t entirely on topic. ] Recently I’ve become aware of several tenets of our culture that so many people believe, but few people articulate: Everyone will naturally have a “normal” ratio between their height and weight. (Example: BMI 25-29.9) Anyone who has a greater or lesser ratio than “normal” is doing something (overeating, not eating, not…
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