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Read more: Woman Upset At Herself For Feeling Hungry
Woman Upset At Herself For Feeling Hungry
11 comments on Woman Upset At Herself For Feeling HungryThe Onion, for those who don’t know, is a “fake news” organization. Originally it was founded in Madison, Wisconsin as the sort of weekly that covers local news and events – only it would add hefty doses of satire and humor. Much of the humor comes from treating everyday things as newsworthy. “Woman Upset At Herself For Feeling Hungry” is in this vein: MODESTO, CA—Telling friends that…
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Read more: Susie Orbach in the New York Times Magazine
Susie Orbach in the New York Times Magazine
Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, was interviewed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this week. In part: Fifi, which is what I call my book “Fat Is a Feminist Issue,” was in part a plea to give up dieting and learn to recognize hunger and appetite and respond to them. Dieting, I argued, caused compulsive eating and destabilizes our relationship to…
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Read more: Spring?
Spring?
I’ve been thinking I should make a new banner photo of the crocuses in the yard to replace the snow-on-rhodedendron one. Then in rained hard, which left the crocuses not looking as Happy and Springtime. Tonight it’s snowing. Only an inch, but still, there’s an inch of snow in my yard. In March. (Yes, I know snow in March is normal in some places, but here…
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Read more: Why is leisure activity so important?
Why is leisure activity so important?
One thing I read a lot is conflating “leisure-time physical activity” with “all physical activity”. For example, try the following, from a book on things that can affect happiness: In the USA, roughly 62 percent of adults engage in at least some physical activity during their leisure time. That means 38 percent don’t engage in any physical activity whatsoever! Gardening is recommended as a “leisure-time physical…
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Read more: Bad Marriages Tied to Metabolic Syndrome, or Depression?
Bad Marriages Tied to Metabolic Syndrome, or Depression?
You may have seen this article about depression and “metabolic syndrome” being tied to unhappy marriages. Or to be more precise: While both men and women in “strained” unions, those marked by arguing and being angry, were more likely to feel depressed than happier partners, the women in the contentious relationships were more likely to develop high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and other markers of what’s known…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[A little exercise in gratitude and appreciating my body.] Knee is getting better (I was walking without pain for most of Wednesday! I took no ibuprofen today!) in part due to … Walking, leg lifts, “chair squats”, and other exercises from physical therapy, and … Stretching, and … Having a job and life where I can arrange do all that without having to miss work or re-injure…
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Read more: Big and Healthy
Big and Healthy
As the media frequently points out, people are bigger now. What is often not pointed out is that we’re also taller and longer lived. The Rotund’s post on the definition of health and yesterday’s discussion on redefining illnesses reminded me of this 2006 New York Times article from Gina Kolata. Scientists used to say that the reason people are living so long these days is that medicine is…
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Read more: Another voice on incontinence
Another voice on incontinence
From Dana Jennings, writing about the incontinence he dealt with after prostate surgery: At age 51, I wouldn’t choose to be incontinent, to wear “male guards,” but in the end it’s just a biomechanical flaw. Same with impotence. Don’t get me wrong, I like the physical life. It’s important to me. I regularly walk five miles a day, and I’ve started running and lifting light weights again.…
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Read more: Not Just “Obese” Was Redefined…
Not Just “Obese” Was Redefined…
As Fillyjonk reminded me, this chart shows how the diagnosis criteria for diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol were also changed in 1997 and 1998. In the case of high cholesterol, this nearly doubled (86% increase) the number of people who officially have “high cholesterol”. I don’t know the science behind these changes. I’d like to think they made a lot more sense than lowering the overweight…
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Read more: Walking review: Pike Place Market
Walking review: Pike Place Market
Since the knee has been bothering me lately, I’ve been making more of an effort to go for walks. The physical therapist I worked with during my prior knee episode recommended that I walk on a treadmill* at least part of the time because the uniform speed and surface let me walk at a very predictable, steady pace. But, of course, the best place to walk is…
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